Los mitos de Cthulhu. Narraciones de horror cosmico (Spanish Edition) by H. P. Lovecraft

by H.P. Lovecraft

A prot g of H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth patterned his own eerie fiction after images and themes taken from the horror stories written by Lovecraft for the pulp magazine Weird Tales. It was Derleth who formally named the myth pattern permeating his mentor's works after a fearsome alien being called Cthulhu who made but a single appearance in Lovecraft's ouevre. Derleth continued Lovecraft's legacy with his own series of highly original tales, set in a similar dark universe where chaos and evil vie with humanity for control of the world. This anthology collects the best of Derleth's horror cycle.

Genres: Horror

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About the author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

— Wikipedia

Reviews

[Katherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me encantó esta relectura.
No todos los relatos me fascinan, pero es, sin duda, excelente y amé reencontrarme con cada uno.

Absolutamente recomendada si quieren conocer una excelente selección de autores icónicos dentro del género y, obviamente, Los mitos.

[Todoescuento · Rating 4 out of 5]

La mejor manera de entrar en los mitos y en Lovecraft.
Después de esta lectura -y según leí a algún conocedor de las ediciones en España de los mitos y Lovecraft - convendría pasar a la antología publicada por Valdemar "El que susurra en la oscuridad". Y apenas quedarían los relatos largos: "Las montañas de la locura" y "El caso de Charles Dexter Ward" para leer lo canónico.

Siempre me atrajo el mundo de Lovecraft, pero hasta esta lectura, había chocado con un muro infranqueable al comenzar con sus escritos. Creo que es un autor al que para nuevos lectores no les viene bien empezar con las obras completas en orden cronológico. Ni arriesgarse en las decenas de antologías (con traducciones dudosas) con selecciones arbitrarias.

Además, sirve para conocer el famoso Círculo de Lovecraft y descubrir sus conexiones literarias y diálogos narrativos...

[Sheyri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Horror in books just doesn't through to me that much. Racism does, though. There's plenty of both...

[candexx · Rating 4 out of 5]

[4.5*]

[Ingrid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eine durchaus lesenswerte Sammlung von wahrhaftig schaurigen Geschichten

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is magnificent, the book has an air of terror ingrained in the soul.