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Obras maestras de H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft es indudablemente, junto con Edgar Allan Poe, el gran maestro de la narrativa de terror. Su buen hacer ha dejado huella en innumerables escritores, cineastas y lectores de todo el mundo. En esta recopilación exclusiva hemos querido rescatar las obras maestras de este genio norteamericano, incluyendo clásicos inolvidables de su universo cósmico como La llamada de Cthulhu, El color surgido del espacio o La sombra sobre Innsmouth, así como cuentos encumbrados por la crítica o la masa social, entre los que destacamos Dagón y Los gatos de Ulthar. En total son veintidós narraciones extraordinarias que se apartan de la tradicional temática del terror sobrenatural ―fantasmas, demonios, seres de ultratumba...― para incorporar nuevos elementos de la ciencia ficción ―viajes en el tiempo, razas de otros planetas, nuevas dimensiones, mundos imaginarios.
480 pages, Hardcover
Published August 15, 2019
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H.P. Lovecraft
6,110 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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