The Essential Horror of H P Lovecraft: The Short Horror Stories of HP Lovecraft

by H.P. Lovecraft

The Essential Horror of H P Lovecraft The Short Horror Stories of HP Lovecraft By HP Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu", canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46. CONTENTS The Alchemist The Beast in the Cave Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Cats of Ulthar Celephais The Crawling Chaos Dagon The Doom That Came to Sarnath Ex Oblivione Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family Herbert Reanimator Hypnos The Lurking Fear Memory The Music of Eric Zann The Nameless City Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House Poetry and the Gods Polaris The Statement of Randolph Carter The Street The Terrible Old Man The Tomb The Tree What the Moon Brings The White Ship

Genres: Classics, Horror

172 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 2014

About the author

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.

— Wikipedia

Reviews

[Belen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of kind, kind of not.
I love the writing, the details, the juicy bits that classical authors write because it WAS original and it wasn’t the same story told over.
But none of these stories scared me, they were scary for the past but not for the present.

[Cristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

*Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
*Nyarlathotep (1920)
*The Picture in the House (1920)
*The Outsider (1921)
*The Hound (1922)
*The Festival (1923)
*He (1925)
*Cool Air (1926)

[Sian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short horror you can read and reread

[Catherine Bartholet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mountains of Madness is prolly my favorite. God his prose is so bad.

[anastasia~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creepy

[Ya Boi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good.