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A Collection of Lovecraft: Fourteen Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627555944
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Mar 23 2014
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A Collection of Lovecraft gathers fourteen early tales of terror, dream, decay, and cosmic unease by H. P. Lovecraft, one of the most influential writers of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. These stories show Lovecraft developing the atmosphere, obsessions, and imaginative territory that would later make his name central to weird fiction: ancient fears, hidden knowledge, haunted houses, strange survivals, dream-worlds, monstrous gods, forbidden memories, and the terrifying suggestion that human life is only a small and fragile thing in a much older universe.
Included here are The Alchemist, The Beast in the Cave, Memory, The Picture in the House, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Dagon, The White Ship, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, Poetry and the Gods, Nyarlathotep, The Cats of Ulthar, Polaris, and The Street. Together they range from Gothic horror and macabre discovery to dream fantasy and the first signs of Lovecraft's cosmic mythology, including the dread figure of Nyarlathotep and the oceanic terror of Dagon.
Readers of classic horror, weird fiction, supernatural tales, dark fantasy, and early twentieth-century pulp literature will find this Black Curtain Books collection a strong introduction to Lovecraft's evolving imagination. These are stories of caves, ruins, nightmares, decaying rooms, impossible cities, and minds forced too close to truths they were never meant to understand.
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