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H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies

H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies

The Classic Stories That Inspired the Classic Horror Films

by H. P. Lovecraft and Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publication Date: 03/11/2011

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Over the span of his career, H.P. Lovecraft wrote just over sixty stories, many of which are regarded as landmarks of modern horror fiction. Nearly half of these stories have been adapted for film and television productions featuring the work of some of Hollywood's most distinguished directors, actors, and actresses. "H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies" offers a unique grouping of Lovecraft's best stories that have been adapted for the big screen. In addition to an introduction that provides a brief history of Lovecraft adaptations in film and television, the book features short headnotes for each story that calls out interesting trivia about the movies and an appendix providing credits for each screen treatment.
ISBN:
9781435136175
9781435136175
Category:
Classic science fiction
Publication Date:
03-11-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sterling Publishing Co Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
376
Dimensions (mm):
210x140x28mm
Weight:
0.47kg
H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity.

Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity.

Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades.

He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.

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