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by H.P. Lovecraft, 大西 尹明 (Translator)

20世紀アメリカが生んだ鬼才、幻想と怪奇の作家、ラヴクラフト。彼の想像力の産物であり彼自ら病的なまでに憑かれていたクトゥルフ神話が怪しく息づく代表作「インスマウスの影」と「闇に囁くもの」。デラポーア家に伝わるおぞましい血の秘密が戦慄を呼ぶ「壁のなかの鼠」、ブラックユーモア風の異色作「死体安置所にて」の全４編を収録。深遠な大宇宙の魔神の呼び声が、読者を太古の昔から永劫の未来につづく暗黒世界のとりこにすることはまちがいない。

319 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 13, 1974

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