Complete and unabridged, this elegant edition contains a comprehensive introduction providing the reader with enlightening information on the author's life and works. The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, and many more hair-raising tales. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Lovecraft is a collection of Lovecraft s horror fiction, selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates. Written between the years 19, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Kim Newman: Cry Babies £8.99 inc.A must-have classic that every Lovecraft fan and collector will love.Īnother excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Fiction of H.P.The Vampyre and other Short Gothic Tales £13.99 inc.Lovecraft: The Shadow Over Innsmouth £10.99 inc. In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of horror and fantasys finest authors pay tribute to. Classic Tales of Horror: Volume One £15.99 inc. LOVECRAFT, Supernatural Horror in Literature.The creature is described as a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and. Lovecraft and introduced in his story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928.

Stephen King called him “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” Related products Cthulhu, fictional entity created by fantasy-horror writer H.P. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical.Īlthough Lovecraft’s readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century. Lovecraft is best known for his tales of cosmic horror, in which unnameable nightmares torment the limits of human consciousness. As early as the 1940s, Lovecraft had developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of humanity-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. P.” Lovecraft (Aug– March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the sub-genre known as weird fiction.

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