THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES (Annotated): Enriched Edition. The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror, The ... ... out of Space, The Thing on the Doorstep…

by H.P. Lovecraft

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The Cthulhu Mythos represent a gateway between the known universe and an ancient dimension of terror inhabited with unspeakable creatures, a pantheon of alien extra-dimensional deities and horrors which predate humanity, and which are hinted at in eons-old myths and legends. Lovecraft's materialist views led him to espouse his philosophical views through his fiction; these philosophical views came to be called cosmicism. Cosmicism took on a dark tone with his creation of what is today called the Cthulhu Mythos.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Some of Lovecraft's work was inspired by his own nightmares. His interest started from his childhood days when his grandfather stirred his interest in the weird by telling him his own original tales of Gothic horror.
Table of Contents:
The Call of Cthulhu
The Haunter of the Dark
Dagon
Nyarlathotep
The Nameless City
Azathoth
The Hound
The Festival
The Colour out of Space
History of the Necronomicon
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow out of Time

Genres: Horror

690 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 15, 2016

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

Reviews

[Mathieu Martin]

Une anthologie de grande qualité qui témoigne de l’expertise de Lovecraft dans l’horreur subjective, les traumatismes et la peur de l’inconnue. L’atout principal de cette anthologie réside dans le mélange d'un contexte réaliste (narré à la première personne sans dialogue) et de détails démoniaques, pour la plupart indescriptibles, laissés à l'imagination la plus fertile du lecteur. Puisant son inspiration dans la mythologie grecque, les écrits de Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville et Arthur Machen, Lovecraft aborde plusieurs questionnements de l’humanité à sa façon, avec un vague malaise moral exacerbé par un besoin coupable de fouiller dans les entrailles de l'étrangeté et les événements paranormaux qui subsistent. Grand visionnaire de l’horreur cosmique, Lovecraft introduit des monstres et des lieux qui ont fait sa renommée, tous liés au Necronomicon. Avec une écriture élégante, avec une narration percutante et des descriptions apocalyptiques à nul autre pareil, les nouvelles de H.P. Lovecraft allaient faire de lui un des auteurs d’horreur et d’imaginaire les plus influents de notre ère.

[Neil]

Some of Lovecraft's stories are excellent, some drag. I generally preferred the shorter pieces (although the longest the novel length The Case of Charles Dexter Ward was also very good.) The Colour Out of Space was probably the best. Lovecraft in many ways took over where Poe left off and was at least equally unappreciated during his lifetime.