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The Necronomicon: Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre
Unspeakable evils, elder gods, and forgotten terrors haunt the pages within this volume. Whether telling of the emergence of the tentacled Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" or the rise of an ancient pagan deity in "The Great God Pan", the stories found here are the stuff of nightmares.
This collection includes the brilliant and horrifying tales from:
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Robert E. Howard
• Arthur Machen
• Lafcadio Hearn
• Robert W. Chambers.
This collection includes the brilliant and horrifying tales from:
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Robert E. Howard
• Arthur Machen
• Lafcadio Hearn
• Robert W. Chambers.
- GenresHorrorCollectionsFantasy
928 pages, Hardcover
Published May 19, 2021
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About the author
H.P. Lovecraft
6,109 books19.3k 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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March 24, 2023
Ok, so I'm not really finished, but I just can't be bothered to wade through any more of these stories.
DNF at page-445 which is about half way through. I don't usually star-rate books that I fail to finish but I'm giving this 2-stars because that was the average level of enjoyment I got from reading the stories up to this point. Honestly, if not for Robert E Howard I would have quit this anthology a lot sooner.
It should be said that without these authors a lot of the gothic/occult-horror that we enjoy in our modern age simply would not exist. But for me I'm not a fan.
Thanks for reading.
DNF at page-445 which is about half way through. I don't usually star-rate books that I fail to finish but I'm giving this 2-stars because that was the average level of enjoyment I got from reading the stories up to this point. Honestly, if not for Robert E Howard I would have quit this anthology a lot sooner.
It should be said that without these authors a lot of the gothic/occult-horror that we enjoy in our modern age simply would not exist. But for me I'm not a fan.
Thanks for reading.
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