En lo profundo de las colinas boscosas de las montañas Catskill, una antigua fuerza se esconde entre las sombras de un mundo olvidado. Cuando un investigador de lo oculto se une a un joven periodista para resolver una cadena de muertes inexplicables, se adentran en un misterio que desafía la razón y despierta terrores ancestrales. ¿Qué horror innombrable habita entre las ruinas de una familia marcada por la tragedia y el aislamiento?
"El miedo que acecha" es una obra inquietante de H. P. Lovecraft que sumerge al lector en una atmósfera de tensión y descubrimientos escalofriantes. Un clásico del horror cósmico que explora los límites del conocimiento humano frente a lo desconocido. Ideal para quienes buscan una lectura breve, intensa y perturbadora.
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.