H. P. Lovecraft, fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas y relatos de terror y ciencia ficcion. Se le considera un gran innovador del cuento de terror, al que aporto una mitologia propia (los mitos de Cthulhu), desarrollada en colaboracion con otros autores y aun vigente. Su obra constituye un clasico del horror cosmico, una corriente que se aparta de la tematica tradicional del terror sobrenatural (satanismo, fantasmas), incorporando elementos de ciencia ficcion (razas alienigenas, viajes en el tiempo, existencia de otras dimensiones). Lovecraft cultivo asimismo la poesia, el ensayo y la literatura epistolar."
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.
Este libro me encantó, la trama es muy buena, me atrapó. Me hizo obsesionarme con llegar a la cuidad del sol poniente acompañando al personaje principal en ese largo viaje lleno de obstáculos. Me envolvió de modo que olvidé cómo había iniciado todo y cuando llegué al final fué sorprendente porque no lo había pensado en ningún momento pese a que era evidente.
I read it a while ago, but I loved the world that the main character makes in his dreams (I wish I could dream something like that) spiced with a little bit of nightmares, too (it IS Lovecraft in the end). An epic journey.