The Dunwich Horror and Others - Couverture rigide

Lovecraft, H. P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0870540378 ISBN 13 : 9780870540370

Editeur : Arkham House Publishers Inc, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Lovecraft H P Howard Phillips 18901937

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) was the most important American horror fiction writer of the first half of the 20th century whose fiction, especially about the Cthulhu Mythos universe, spanned both time and space.

He never achieved financial success; however, he did become good friends with several big writers, notably Robert Bloch (Psycho) and Robert E. Howard of Conan fame. The "Cthulhu Mythos" grew out of the Lovecraft Circle, a writing group where everyone shared in Lovecraft's Mythos stories. The most famous of these were "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At the Mountains of Madness".

Many novels and stories have come from his Mythos tales, one of the most famous being The Necronomicon, written by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, which first appeared in Lovecraft's story "The Hound".

Lovecraft's health and financial situation began to fail seriously in the mid-1930s. He died in 1937 of cancer of the intestine, never knowing what a giant of the horror genre he was to become.

Biographie de l'auteur

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 – 1937) — known as H.P. Lovecraft — 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. In 1913 his conduct of a long running controversy in the letters page of a story magazine led to his being invited to participate in an amateur journalism association. Encouraged, he started circulating his stories; he was 31 at the time of his first publication in a professional magazine. By age 34, he was a regular contributor to newly founded Weird Tales magazine. In 1926 he produced some of his most celebrated tales including “The Call of Cthulhu”. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arkham House Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870540378
• ISBN 13: 9780870540370
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible