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Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Ovecraft’s guiding literary principle was what he termed "cosmic horror," the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. As early as the 1940s, Lovecraft’s work had developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of humanity-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Is works are deeply pessimistic, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Humanism and Christianity.

Ovecraft (1890-1937) is widely recognized as the twentieth century's greatest master of weird fiction Drawing inspiration from such of his predecessors as Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany, and Arthur Machen, Lovecraft evolved a highly original pseudomythology, later named the Cthulhu Mythos, that underlies many of his most powerful tales nvisioning the coming to earth of immensely powerful alien entities from the farthest reaches of the universe, this pseudomythology underscored the cosmic perspective that Lovecraft made his signature contribution to weird fiction.

This volume contains such major tales as The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Shadow out of Time n addition, important early tales such as The Outsider and The Rats in the Walls are included, presenting the full range of Lovecraft's stories from the beginning to the end of his career The most accurate and authoritative texts are used, and the volume concludes with a bibliography of first apparances of all the items included.

He volume is edited by S oshi, a leading authority on weird fiction Joshi is the author of The Weird Tale (1990),The Modern Weird Tale (2001), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012), and he has prepared editions of the work of H. P ovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.

Edition Details

• Limited to 500 copies.
• Introduction by S. T. Joshi.
• Massive, 800-page, low-cost edition of Lovecraft’s best stories.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full black cloth binding.
• Embossed H.P. Lovecraft signature on front board.
• Gorgeous dustjacket.
• Photographs of H.P. Lovecraft.

External Links

• Library of Weird Fiction: H.P. Lovecraft. Centipede Press page for Library of Weird Fiction: H.P. Lovecraft
• H.P. Lovecraft (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for H.P. Lovecraft