Azathoth. Vermischte Schriften

by H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Rottensteiner (Translator)

Dieser Band vereinigt Erzählungen und Essays, die höchst interessante Schlaglichter auf den Menschen – den Sonderling – Lovecraft werfen. Man findet frühe Geschichten, Fragmente, Überarbeitungen der Prosa anderer Autoren, posthum von August Derleth vollendete Erzählungen sowie Aussagen Lovecrafts zur phantastischen Literatur. Aufgenommen sind Lovecrafts Notizbücher, in denen er flüchtige Einfälle für die eventuelle Verwertung in künftigen Erzählungen niederlegte oder Kataloge von Handlungselementen und Situationen für unheimliche Geschichten aufstellte, teilweise auf Träume zurückgehend. Die spärlichen Selbstaussagen Lovecrafts sind von sympathischer Bescheidenheit, ja Unsicherheit geprägt.

Genres: Horror, Novels, Lovecraftian, Fiction

312 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 1989

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

[Godzilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the unfinished work of Lovecraft, so really just a snippet, or vignette of what could have been.

There's little to comemnt on, as the plot and characters aren't expounded, so we're left with some beautiful prose which promises much, but ultimately doesn't deliver.

Onwards into the realms of Lovecraft I go....

[Ramon · Rating 3 out of 5]

contains the only known fragment of Lovecraft's abandoned novel Azathoth. too bad, it looked promising. in it good ol' howard's obsession with 18th century french weirdo fantasy novel Vathek starts to border plagiarism.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is more of a fragment than an actual story. Just as Lovecraft sets the mood, it ends without really introducing any characters or semblance of plot. It starts well, but that's really all you can say about this.

[Kevin Cortez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es impresionante este libro de Lovecraft, emocionante, te atrapa totalmente!