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H. P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos Tales (Keepsake Edition)
The complete Cthulhu Mythos by master horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, now with a creatively embroidered cover.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a collection of 23 loosely connected short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, one of the earliest masters of dark fantasy and horror. From “Dagon” to “The Call of Cthulhu” to “The Haunter of the Dark,” each story connects to the ancient cosmic entities known as the Great Old Ones, buried in a deep sleep beneath the earth and incomprehensible to mankind. For the few mortals who dare to glimpse this unknowable world, the result is a complete disconnection from what was once considered reality. Lovecraft’s stories are grim, fantastical, dark, horrifying—and yet endlessly fascinating. This Crafted Classics edition features a decorative cover to give the book a unique embroidered appearance.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a collection of 23 loosely connected short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, one of the earliest masters of dark fantasy and horror. From “Dagon” to “The Call of Cthulhu” to “The Haunter of the Dark,” each story connects to the ancient cosmic entities known as the Great Old Ones, buried in a deep sleep beneath the earth and incomprehensible to mankind. For the few mortals who dare to glimpse this unknowable world, the result is a complete disconnection from what was once considered reality. Lovecraft’s stories are grim, fantastical, dark, horrifying—and yet endlessly fascinating. This Crafted Classics edition features a decorative cover to give the book a unique embroidered appearance.
- GenresHorror
624 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2024
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About the author
H.P. Lovecraft
6,111 books19.3k followersHoward 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
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
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October 26, 2024
Aside from a great looking book a good collection of Cthulhu stories. Do expect most to be about the universe Lovecraft created for these entities and very few actually about Cthulhu or even mentioning him. Because most stories he wrote are not directly about Cthulhu. Other lesser popular elder beings and gods get mentioned a lot more. But everyone knows Cthulhu so the book title is mostly used to get people to notice it.
I also don’t think every story he wrote in this universe is in here. But enough to keep you reading a long time. Its a thick book, thin paper and small print. It’s packed full of content. From short stories to lengthier ones.
I had read some already but this was a nice collection and also in an order that you start to get a good feeling for the universe and setting. You easily read one story and go ‘ohyeah those where mentioned in previous stories’. Which helps making it all tie together.
Overall I really enjoy his style of writing. This type of horror where it’s mainly a sense of dread and nothing actually really happens appeals more to me then gore or more explicit horror. Often written as journals post the event they set a tone and atmosphere that is just amazing. And clear that it created its own genre.
While most of it reads just as well now as when it was written, as it’s clearly set in the early 1900’s making you accept that age also just as in ‘its part of the story’. The one thing that is clearly outdated is his view on race. Its not openly racist but it still is racist. It is unreadable then? Personally I don’t think so. It’s from a different age. Not that this is an excuse for it. Far from it. But keeping this in mind makes is cringe whenever he mentions people of color and basically describes most other cultures as a bit backward. But as it’s also often written from the perspective of ‘westerners who feel themselves superior in the 1800 and early 1900’ it’s not that ‘strange’. One could say the characters of that age have a way of looking at other cultures as ‘backward’, just as they at every demeaning about white people without education. They seem to look down on anyone not a white educated man. Which seems ‘in character’. And luckily it’s not usually a big part of the stories. It sets the tone for this era well.
One thing ironic about it that while other races (from Arab to African) are often described as being more primitive by the characters in the stories…. They actually often seem to be spot on about what is happening, actually have more knowledge and don’t make the dumb mistakes the main characters make believing themselves more educated and superior. So while the language sometimes used annoyed me, perhaps Lovecraft actually painted a picture here that actually makes fun of white educated people believing themselves the best and looking down on both other cultures and less educated people.
Still the stories would have been better and more timeless without it. At least with some names used and esp. in ‘the witches house’ where a black man is clearly connected to being evil then again in other stories he’s casting white townsfolk into those roles.
These are the stories in this bundle:
1. Dagon
2. Nyarlathotep
3. The Nameless City
4. Azathoth
5. The Hound
6. The Festival
7. The Call of Cthulhu
8. The Colour out of Space
9. History of the Necronomicon
10. The Curse of Yig
11. The Dunwich Horror
12. The Whisperer in Darkness
13. The Mound
14. At the Mountains of Madness
15. The Shadow over Innsmouth
16. The Dreams in the Witch House
17. The Man of Stone
18. The Horror in the Museum
19. The Thing on the Doorstep
20. Out of the Aeons
21. The Tree on the Hill
22. The Shadow out of Time
23. The Haunter of the Dark
I also don’t think every story he wrote in this universe is in here. But enough to keep you reading a long time. Its a thick book, thin paper and small print. It’s packed full of content. From short stories to lengthier ones.
I had read some already but this was a nice collection and also in an order that you start to get a good feeling for the universe and setting. You easily read one story and go ‘ohyeah those where mentioned in previous stories’. Which helps making it all tie together.
Overall I really enjoy his style of writing. This type of horror where it’s mainly a sense of dread and nothing actually really happens appeals more to me then gore or more explicit horror. Often written as journals post the event they set a tone and atmosphere that is just amazing. And clear that it created its own genre.
While most of it reads just as well now as when it was written, as it’s clearly set in the early 1900’s making you accept that age also just as in ‘its part of the story’. The one thing that is clearly outdated is his view on race. Its not openly racist but it still is racist. It is unreadable then? Personally I don’t think so. It’s from a different age. Not that this is an excuse for it. Far from it. But keeping this in mind makes is cringe whenever he mentions people of color and basically describes most other cultures as a bit backward. But as it’s also often written from the perspective of ‘westerners who feel themselves superior in the 1800 and early 1900’ it’s not that ‘strange’. One could say the characters of that age have a way of looking at other cultures as ‘backward’, just as they at every demeaning about white people without education. They seem to look down on anyone not a white educated man. Which seems ‘in character’. And luckily it’s not usually a big part of the stories. It sets the tone for this era well.
One thing ironic about it that while other races (from Arab to African) are often described as being more primitive by the characters in the stories…. They actually often seem to be spot on about what is happening, actually have more knowledge and don’t make the dumb mistakes the main characters make believing themselves more educated and superior. So while the language sometimes used annoyed me, perhaps Lovecraft actually painted a picture here that actually makes fun of white educated people believing themselves the best and looking down on both other cultures and less educated people.
Still the stories would have been better and more timeless without it. At least with some names used and esp. in ‘the witches house’ where a black man is clearly connected to being evil then again in other stories he’s casting white townsfolk into those roles.
These are the stories in this bundle:
1. Dagon
2. Nyarlathotep
3. The Nameless City
4. Azathoth
5. The Hound
6. The Festival
7. The Call of Cthulhu
8. The Colour out of Space
9. History of the Necronomicon
10. The Curse of Yig
11. The Dunwich Horror
12. The Whisperer in Darkness
13. The Mound
14. At the Mountains of Madness
15. The Shadow over Innsmouth
16. The Dreams in the Witch House
17. The Man of Stone
18. The Horror in the Museum
19. The Thing on the Doorstep
20. Out of the Aeons
21. The Tree on the Hill
22. The Shadow out of Time
23. The Haunter of the Dark
October 21, 2024
The amount of pop culture that has been influenced or spawned from this work is unreal. Lovecraft was 100 years ahead of his time.
August 12, 2025
More Lovecraft!
April 10, 2023
Uma ótima seleção de contos/novelas de H.P. Lovecraft mais indicada para quem não conhece o "mestre do horror cósmico", pois trata-se de contos sobre o mito de Cthulhu como o título já indica. Como eu já conhecia a maria dos contos, foquei mais nos "inéditos" para mim.
Mas essa edição da Nova Fronteira precisa de uma revisão mais detalhada dos textos, porque tem várias frases com palavras repetidas. Não é um erro de tradução mas de digitação mesmo. Uma boa revisão já resolveria o problema.
Mas essa edição da Nova Fronteira precisa de uma revisão mais detalhada dos textos, porque tem várias frases com palavras repetidas. Não é um erro de tradução mas de digitação mesmo. Uma boa revisão já resolveria o problema.
August 21, 2023
I didn't finish it, but as it is a compilations of small stories, I self it after finishing one of them. I had wanted to read Lovecraft for a while and it's ALRIGHT. Reading horror is not meant for me as I tend to loose interest really quickly. But still, I liked it
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