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Il ciclo di Cthulhu

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Robert Ervin Howard, scrittore americano e maestro della letteratura di genere, fu il precursore dell’heroic fantasy e del romanzo d’avventura, soprattutto per le opere su Conan il Barbaro che lo resero celebre. L’autore diede vita anche al cosiddetto “Ciclo di Cthulhu” con dei racconti ispirati al lavoro di H.P. Lovecraft, con il quale intraprese un lungo carteggio. In questa antologia ne riproponiamo tre:

- La Pietra Nera
- Il Fuoco di Assurbanipal
- La cosa sul Tetto

«Se fossi facoltoso non farei altro che andarmene in giro per il mondo a curiosare nelle città in rovina... e probabilmente finirei per farmi mordere da un serpente.»
(Da una lettera a H.P. Lovecraft, 1931)

57 pages, ebook

First published July 21, 2014

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Robert E. Howard

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Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

—Wikipedia

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June 19, 2017
3 storie del papà di Conan dedicate all'universo Lovecraftiano scritte in modo magistrale.
Scrittura scorrevole e coinvolgente.
Consigliatissima la lettura a tutti gli amanti del genere.
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