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Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт, не опубликовавший при жизни ни одной книги, сделался маяком и ориентиром целого жанра, кумиром как широких читательских масс, так и рафинированных интеллектуалов, неиссякаемым источником вдохновения для кинематографистов, да и само его имя стало нарицательным. Сам Борхес восхищался его рассказами, в которых место человека — на далекой периферии вселенской схемы вещей, а силы надмирные вселяют в души неосторожных священный ужас. Данный сборник включает рассказы и повести, дописанные по оставшимся после Лавкрафта черновикам его другом, учеником и первым издателем Августом Дерлетом.
- GenresShort Stories
480 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2017
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H.P. Lovecraft
6,039 books19.2k followersHoward 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
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
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November 20, 2023
Дописанные, переписанные, а некоторые написанные за самого Лавкрафта вещи его другом Августом Дерлетом. Если честно, то слог у Дерлета будет поживее и побойчее, но темы, конечно, те же - Ктулху и Некрономикон, что-то ждущее из тьмы и у порога, иные пространства и миры. Неплохо.
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