Howard Phillips Lovecraft

El horror de Dunwich (t tulo original en ingl s: The Dunwich Horror) es un relato corto escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en 1928 y publicada por Weird Tales en marzo de 1929. Transcurre en el pueblo ficticio de Dunwich, Massachusetts. Se lo considera una de las obras principales de los Mitos de Cthulhu.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death.

Vi satt kring sjuklingens bädd och såg den ohyggliga, pipande varelsen växa fram ur hans kropp, tills två vidriga, spindelbenssmala armar frigjorde sig. De diminutiva naglarna var perfekta, man kunde till och med urskilja de små halvmånarna vid nagelrötterna. Armarna gestikulerade och den högra handen famlade efter den döendes blonda skägg. -- Nej, jag står inte ut! skrek min vän och tog upp rakkniven... Från mörkrets mästare, en gedigen samling skräckhistorier som sällan eller aldrig bokpublicerats på svenska tidigare. Drypande djungelmysterier samsas med hemsökta herresäten, svinmonster från andra dimensioner och styggelser i urtida hålor under Gizas pyramider. Här finns också en bitterljuv spökhistoria om en blind kvinna, som i sin ensamhet fyller hemmet med spökande barn. Och därtill en essä där en av mästarna skildrar sina allt för livliga mardrömmar. Tretton skräckklassiker för finsmakaren, skrivna av H.P. Lovecraft, Gustav Meyrink, Rudyard Kipling med flera.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death.Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecraft's earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.

El horror de Dunwich (t tulo original en ingl s: The Dunwich Horror) es un relato corto escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en 1928 y publicada por Weird Tales en marzo de 1929. Transcurre en el pueblo ficticio de Dunwich, Massachusetts. Se lo considera una de las obras principales de los Mitos de Cthulhu. Wilbur Whateley, hijo precoz y monstruoso de una solitaria familia de Dunwich, conserva parte del atroz secreto del Necronomic n, el libro prohibido. El secreto no puede, no debe, ser revelado a los hombres: las fuerzas del mal perviven y pueden invocarse. Una vez desatadas, el mundo conocer su apocalipsis.

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily

Howard Phillips Lovecraft - known as H.P.Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his in uential works of horror ction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most signi cant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island where he spent most of his life. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor. He saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the con dence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time that he died at age 46.According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft - as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century - has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction". Horror, fantasy, and science fiction author Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." King has made it clear in his semi- autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for King's own fascination with horror and the macabre, and was the single largest figure to influence his fiction writing.This classic title has been published by RADLEY BOOKS. Each RADLEY CLASSIC is a meticulously restored, luxurious and faithful reproduction of a classic book; produced with elegant text layout, clarity of presentation, and stylistic features that make reading a true pleasure. Special attention is given to legible fonts and adequate letter sizing, correct line length for readability, generous margins and triple lead (lavish line separation); plus we do not allow any mistakes/changes/additions to creep into the author's words.Visit RADLEY BOOKS at www.radleybooks.com (or search RADLEY CLASSIC on Amazon) to see more classic book titles in this series.

In questo testo del 1933, H.P. Lovecraft espone la trasformazione del suo pensiero politico in seguito alla Grande Depressione, discutendo di lotta di classe, del potere dei monopoli, di un nuovo sistema di welfare e del suo giudizio sul New Deal rooseveltiano, sollevando interrogativi e trovando soluzioni a problemi che ancora oggi vessano l'Occidente. Il volume include anche "Il culto dei nomi barbari", una disamina delle etimologie lovecraftiane in fatto di divinit aliene, libri maledetti, luoghi e personaggi, e "A layman looks at the government", il testo originale in inglese del breve saggio che costituisce la parte centrale del volume.