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Selected Weird Tales
- GenresFiction
203 pages, Hardcover
Published June 1, 2022
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H.P. Lovecraft
6,110 books19.2k 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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May 29, 2024
Зібрання 5 коротких повістей, 3 зовсім короткі і дві довші. Довші (Поклик Ктулху і Дунвіч Горрор) класні, у них вже прописані персонажі та сюжет, цікаво дізнаватися більше про моторошних істот і як вони взаємодіють з людьми. А короткі виглядають більше як синопсисами, і не зовсім страшні коли читаєш - про болото, яке не треба було осушувати, про старовинний амулет, про крис у стінах.
September 21, 2024
There are some parts that should be changed for a modern audience… like give that cat a different name
October 20, 2024
2.5 ⭐ The Moon-Bog
2.5 ⭐ The Hound
3 ⭐ The rats in the walls
4 ⭐ The call of Cthulhu
4.5 ⭐ The Dunwich Horror
2.5 ⭐ The Hound
3 ⭐ The rats in the walls
4 ⭐ The call of Cthulhu
4.5 ⭐ The Dunwich Horror
February 19, 2025
There are, perhaps, some words (and opinions) best ignored in here; but the vibes are exactly as off as they occultly should be.
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April 28, 2025"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
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