Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. and increases our wonder at the magic that transforms life into a great writer's art. Richly illustrated and scrupulously researched, this extraordinary work adds exciting levels of meaning to Lovecraft's chilling tales. Mansions, universities, laboratories, and dank New England boneyards appear also as the haunts where Lovecraft's characters confront the fabulous and fantastic, or-like the narrator in 'Herbert West-Reanimator'-dig up fresh corpses. Their extensive notes lift the veil between real events in the writer's life-such as the death of his father-and the words that spill out onto the page in magnificent grotesquerie. Joshi and Peter Cannon provide another rare opportunity to look into the mind of a genius.

Now, in this second volume of annotated tales, Lovecraft scholars S. Lovecraft is one of America's giants of the horror genre. Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing-including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories 'Herbert West-Reanimator', 'Pickman's Model', 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Thing on the Doorstep', 'The Horror at Red Hook' and more.ĭid Lovecraft believe in ghosts or paranormal phenomena? In what story does the narrator fear riding the Boston T?Ī pathfinder in the literary territory of the macabre, H.P.

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