Took me years to get through it, bought it in 2014 (crazy I know) but obviously that wasn't continuous reading, I'd read a story from it and leave it for ages with the bookmark in he can be difficult to read sometimes due to his writing style - it's slow-paced and sometimes difficult for me to interpret because sometimes it seems to me like he starts rambling and I'm like.what's going on?īut I've been on a Lovecraft kick lately and I'm glad I finally finished most of his work, moving onto Eldritch Tales soon and that's me completed all of his fiction - as far as I know. “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”Įxcellent collection of Lovecraft's stories, you've got most of his best ones in this collection but it's such a big and somewhat cumbersome book. 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. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. 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. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. This collection of stories was originally compiled by Cthulu Chick, who created the EPUB, MOBI and PDF formats. I did not include collaborations or revisions because some of those works may still be under the co-author’s copyright.ģ/4/11 – I’ve updated the eBook with a cover created by Santiago Casares, an artist and Lovecraftian fan.' Because Lovecraft was a terrible businessman and left no heirs to his intellectual property, all of his works are already in the public domain. It begins in 1917 with “The Tomb” and ends in 1935 with his last original work “The Haunter of the Dark.” The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult.

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