Los mejores relatos de H.P. Lovecraft

by H.P. Lovecraft, Trama Literaria (Translator)

Howard Phillips Lovecraft fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas y relatos de terror y ciencia ficción. Se le considera el gran innovador del cuento de horror, al que aportó una mitología propia: Los Mitos de Cthulhu. Junto con Edgar Allan Poe representa la cima de la narrativa terrorífica, y su influencia se puede rastrear no solo en multitud de escritores, sino que también es perceptible en otros campos, como el de los cineastas. En esta recopilación exclusiva hemos querido rescatar algunas de las obras maestras de este genio, incluyendo clásicos inolvidables de su universo cósmico. Sus mitos exploran a ciegas la perspectiva de que, bajo el mundo cotidiano y conocido, se esconde una realidad prodigios ay aterradora que acecha a la humanidad desde las tinieblas y sume en el pánico, o la locura, a quien osa atisbar los abismos de aquella inaprensible dimensión. A Menudo el protagonista es incapaz a de controlar sus propias acciones, o encuentra imposible cambiar el curso de los catastróficos acontecimientos.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

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.

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Reviews

[Mon Terrés · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chills... that's what I got. The stories are short but they are incredible.

[Darlin Hidekel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Increíbles historias, míticas inimaginables