H. P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror (Fall River Classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1435140370
ISBN 13
9781435140370
Category
Literature
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Pages
600
Description
HP Lovecraft wrote horror stories like no other author before or after him. In the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp-fiction magazines of the 1920s and '30s, Lovecraft pioneered a new type of story that fused the thrills of supernatural horror with the visionary concepts of science fiction. His unique style of cosmic horror revolutionized the modern horror tale through its depiction of a vast universe indifferent to human existence and populated by incomprehensibly alien monsters.
This volume collects twenty of Lovecraft's best-known horror stories, including several that laid the foundation for the Cthulhu Mythos, a pattern of myth and lore that represents the high point of his writing and one of the most original contributions to fantastic fiction in the past century. Selections include:
"Pickman's Model." The monsters in Richard Upton Pickman's paintings were so hideously lifelike you might easily believe that they had been painted from real life.
"The Rats in the Walls." The nightly scramblings of foraging rats in the walls were disturbing enough - but what horror did their destination belowground suggest?
"The Call of Cthulhu." An island risen from the depths of the Pacific Ocean houses a denizen whose emergence in our world portends the end of life as we know it.
"At the Mountains of Madness." In the wastes of Antarctica, an exploration team discovers the remnants of an inconceivably ancient pre-human civilization - and evidence that whatever wiped it out may still be at large.
HP Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror is your passport to unique worlds of wonder and terror as only one of the greatest horror writers of all time could imagine them.
HP Lovecraft (1891-1937) made his first professional sale in 1923 and over the next fourteen years wrote dozens of stories that permanently altered the landscape of horror fiction. He is regarded as the greatest American writer of horror fiction after Edgar Allan Poe and an important figure in American letters in the twentieth century.
Taken from the inside flaps.
"HP Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King
HP Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master HP Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including:
The Rats in the Walls
Pickman's Model
The Colour out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Dunwich Horror
The Shadow over Innsmouth
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
Taken from the back cover.
This volume collects twenty of Lovecraft's best-known horror stories, including several that laid the foundation for the Cthulhu Mythos, a pattern of myth and lore that represents the high point of his writing and one of the most original contributions to fantastic fiction in the past century. Selections include:
"Pickman's Model." The monsters in Richard Upton Pickman's paintings were so hideously lifelike you might easily believe that they had been painted from real life.
"The Rats in the Walls." The nightly scramblings of foraging rats in the walls were disturbing enough - but what horror did their destination belowground suggest?
"The Call of Cthulhu." An island risen from the depths of the Pacific Ocean houses a denizen whose emergence in our world portends the end of life as we know it.
"At the Mountains of Madness." In the wastes of Antarctica, an exploration team discovers the remnants of an inconceivably ancient pre-human civilization - and evidence that whatever wiped it out may still be at large.
HP Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror is your passport to unique worlds of wonder and terror as only one of the greatest horror writers of all time could imagine them.
HP Lovecraft (1891-1937) made his first professional sale in 1923 and over the next fourteen years wrote dozens of stories that permanently altered the landscape of horror fiction. He is regarded as the greatest American writer of horror fiction after Edgar Allan Poe and an important figure in American letters in the twentieth century.
Taken from the inside flaps.
"HP Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King
HP Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master HP Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including:
The Rats in the Walls
Pickman's Model
The Colour out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Dunwich Horror
The Shadow over Innsmouth
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
Taken from the back cover.
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