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First edition. |
| Description |
lxx, 852 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
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Bibliography |
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Short story |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction by Alan Moore -- Foreword by Leslie S. Klinger -- Editor's note -- The stories. Dagon -- The statement of Randolph Carter -- Beyond the wall of sleep -- Nyarlathotep -- The picture in the house -- Herbert West: Reanimator -- The nameless city -- The hound -- The festival -- The unnamable -- The call of Cthulhu -- The silver key -- The case of Charles Dexter Ward -- The colour out of space -- The Dunwich horror -- The whisperer in darkness -- At the mountains of madness -- The shadow over Innsmouth -- The dreams in the witch house -- The thing on the doorstep -- The shadow out of time -- The haunter of the dark -- Appendix 1: Chronological table -- Appendix 2: Faculty of Miskatonic University -- Appendix 3: History of the Necronomicon -- Appendix 4: Genealogy of the elder races -- Appendix 5: The works of H.P. Lovecraft -- Appendix. 6: The "revisions" of H.P. Lovecraft -- Appendix 7: H.P. Lovecraft in popular culture. |
| Summary |
At the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now, well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction. Editor Leslie S. Klinger charts the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work. Over the course of his career, Lovecraft made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction," Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space." With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H.P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep. |
| Subject |
Horror tales, American.
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FICTION -- Classics.
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FICTION -- Horror.
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FICTION -- Science Fiction.
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Horror tales, American. (OCoLC)fst00960399
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Horror tales. (OCoLC)fst01726645
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Horror fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921684
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Horror fiction.
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Short stories.
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Horror tales.
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Horror fiction.
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Short stories.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Klinger, Leslie S., editor.
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Moore, Alan, 1953- writer of introduction.
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Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780871404534 : $39.95 |
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0871404532 |
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9781631490552 |
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1631490559 |
| Standard No. |
9780871404534 53995 |
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