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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

by H. P. Lovecraft and Jeffrey K. Potter
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/02/1990

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The golden anniversary of Arkham House appropriately is commemorated with this revised and expanded version of the famous 1969 anthology, which brings together many authors associated with the company's early years, plus younger writers who have come under the spell of Lovecraft's incomparable dreamworld: "The Call of Cthulhu, " and "The Haunter of the Dark" by H.P. Lovecraft; "The Return of the Sorcerer" and "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith; "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard; "The Hounds of Tindalos" and "The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long; "The Dwellers in Darkness" and "Beyond the Threshold" by August Derleth; "The Shambler from the Stars, " "The Shadow from the Steeple" and "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" by Robert Bloch; "The Salem Horror" by Henry Kuttner; "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber; "Rising with Surtsey" by Brian Lumley; "Cold Print" by Ramsey Campbell; "The Return of the Lloigor" by Colin Wilson; "My Boat" by Joanna Russ; "Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner; "The Freshman" by Philip Jose Farmer; "Jerusalem's Lot" by Stephen King and. "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone" by Richard A. Lupoff.
ISBN:
9780870541599
9780870541599
Category:
Fantasy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-02-1990
Publisher:
Arkham House Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
209.04x142.24x40.89mm
Weight:
0.7kg
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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