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克蘇魯的呼喚:H.P. Lovecraft恐怖小說傑作選(全新重譯版)

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二十世紀最偉大的古典恐怖故事作家
史蒂芬.金、尼爾.蓋曼、喬治.馬丁、伊藤潤二創作的原點
二〇二〇年追頒雨果獎最佳系列作品

「克蘇魯神話」的起源,恐怖小說的同義詞
「人類最古老、最強烈的情感就是恐怖,各種恐怖中,最強烈的,就是對於未知的恐怖。」

你或許沒有閱讀過洛夫克拉夫特筆下的恐怖故事,但一定在不同媒體中看過源自克蘇魯神話的視覺或敘事元素。

承襲愛倫坡文風的洛夫克拉夫特在生前並不知名,但他的風格卻廣泛影響後世的知名恐怖作家,包括史蒂芬.金與《養鬼吃人》的作者克萊夫.巴克。克蘇魯邪神眾也經常在不同作品中客串,諸如尼爾.蓋曼的作品或漫威與DC等美國漫畫;蝙蝠俠故事中用於囚禁小丑等瘋狂罪犯的阿卡漢瘋人院便取自洛夫克拉夫特筆下的虛構小鎮阿卡漢。

洛夫克拉夫特一向專注於描寫對未知事物的恐懼,與人類在宇宙中不可名狀的生物/邪神相比之下的渺小。作品中的人類角色試圖以理性面對前所未見的古老超自然威脅,但大多角色最後都落入理性崩壞的瘋狂深淵中。故事中的各類宇宙古老邪神不盡然會在劇情中出現,洛夫克拉夫特對大多數邪神或其從屬生物也只提供粗略的外觀或行為描寫,但反而營造出更強的未知恐怖感。

洛夫克拉夫特的宇宙恐怖元素,除了受到大量後世作家引用和拓展外,也將觸手伸向恐怖小說以外的領域。美國DC漫畫中,囚禁蝙蝠俠諸多反派的阿卡漢療養院(Arkham Asylum),便得名於克蘇魯神話中惡名昭彰的新英格蘭小鎮。導演約翰.卡本特(John Carpenter)在八○年代拍攝的「啟示錄三部曲」(Apocalypse Trilogy)便深受洛夫克拉夫特的直接影響,其中最有名的則是為科幻恐怖電影開創了新里程碑的《突變第三型》(The Thing)。

如今,「克蘇魯神話」已成為近一世紀以來影響力最大的恐怖小說與故事元素,之後,我們還會不斷看到此系譜衍生出來的各種電影、遊戲、漫畫與文學作品。

本書收錄了「克蘇魯神話」中,最具代表性的八則故事,請靜下心、深呼吸,慢慢閱讀,喚醒你內心深處,那股對未知事物的恐懼,並勇敢面對源自久遠古老年代的超自然威脅。

496 pages, Paperback

Published January 6, 2021

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H.P. Lovecraft

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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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45 reviews1 follower
February 26, 2022
看完第一個故事,有種看完一部好萊塢恐怖大片的感覺,透不過氣。腦海中不斷浮現金剛島的場景,其實恐怖十倍也不止。
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April 7, 2022
邊吃軟絲/小卷邊閱讀的二篇特別好看
這一定是有某種無可名狀的力量在發揮作用

克蘇魯的呼喚(Call of Cthulhu)7分
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印斯茅斯暗影(The Shadow over Innsmouth)7分
門外怪客(The Thing On the Doorstep)7分
暗黑祟魔(The Haunter of the Dark)7分

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February 28, 2021
克蘇魯台灣近幾年各式周邊出的非常多
不論是桌遊/遊戲/電影等等...都能看到受其影響的作品
但反倒是「原典」到今年才出了比較完整的收錄本

克式恐怖-核心概念就是「不可名狀的」
將人與宇宙神明聯繫配上神祕學構築出的故事
看完能更了解各式周邊衍生物的梗以及神話體系
無論是格林威治或是阿卡漢
這個宇宙很多東西太過駭人,人類不該知道
y'ai'ng'ngah, yog-sothoth
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