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En la cripta: Relatos de Terror III
Recreación del relato tradicional de fantasmas, En la cripta es uno de los nueve cuentos recogidos en este volumen y que constituyen muestra representativa de las diversas facetas de la obra, tan unitaria como compleja, de H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). En ella, los cultos olvidados, las doctrinas esotéricas y las fuerzas ocultas encarnadas en dioses arquetípicos se conjugan en una original concepción del relato de terror que aspira a la construcción de un universo mítico y a la codificación de una cosmogonía.
- GenresHorror
96 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published June 8, 2007
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About the author
H.P. Lovecraft
6,110 books19.2k 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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November 12, 2013
Out of the four stories on this compilation the one I liked best was "The Rats in the Walls". The other three were average and had a bit too much filler text for my liking. It's peculiar but interesting to read Lovecraft's recurrent themes of interracial breeding and incest, both eventually leading to the birth of a deformed new race. I still have a long way to go with this author but I've been liking him a lot so far.
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