Los mejores cuentos de terror

by H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

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

[valen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Muy buena colección de relatos de terror clásicos, aunque algunos eran realmente aburridos. Mi favorito fue "El huésped de Dracula" de Bram Stoker.

[Cristian Canales · Rating 3 out of 5]

Irregular compilación.

[Nicolas Galantini]

Buen compendio de historias de terror.

[Javier Banca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Distan mucho de ser los mejores cuentos de terror. Aun así, hay tres o cuatro bastante buenos, como Berenice, de Poe, y El Mortal Inmortal, de Shelley.

[Yolanda Alcarraz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Increiblemente he disfrutado mucho de estas historias, las dos primeras no me convencieron del todo pero mientas seguia con una y otra me ha ido gustando mas este género, definitivamente un excelente comienzo para mi dentro de este tipo de historias, yo que pensaba que eran muy dificiles de leer y una de las cosas que mas me ha gustado es la forma como las han escrito. Mis preferidas han sido El monte de las ánimas y El huésped de Drácula.