CALL OF CTHULHU SERIES

His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity.

CALL OF CTHULHU SERIES

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. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The cover is embossed with a mystical design by Hillier, while a monstrous eye stares blankly from the slipcase.ДЈ. The edition itself shimmers with LovecraftвЂ™s вЂunknown coloursвЂ™, bound in purple and greens akin to both the ocean depths and mysteries from outer space. By splicing Victorian portraits and lithographs with cosmic and Lovecraftian symbolism, each piece вЂ“ like the stories themselves вЂ“ pulls apart the familiar to reveal what lies beneath. HillierвЂ™s six mesmerising, portal-like illustrations embrace the alien realities that lurk among the gambrel roofs of LovecraftвЂ™s landscapes. Yet, despite his prejudices and parochialisms, he вЂpossessed a voice and a perspective both unique in modern literatureвЂ™. In his beautifully crafted new preface, Moore finds Lovecraft at once at odds with and integral to the time in which he lived: вЂthe improbable embodiment of an estranged world in transitionвЂ™. This edition, based on its sister limited edition, marries LovecraftвЂ™s best-known fiction with two modern masters of the macabre, the acclaimed artist Dan Hillier and author Alan Moore. This fictional universe, built in large part by his friend and most ardent supporter August Derleth, has in the years since been reimagined in myriad forms, and continues to act as a haunted playground for countless illustrators, fans and authors. The extra-terrestrial вЂgodsвЂ™ and cursed histories that would emerge from these stories now form the cornerstones of LovecraftвЂ™s unique mythology: the Cthulhu Mythos. In later tales, such as the iconic вЂThe Call of CthulhuвЂ™ and вЂThe Whisperer in DarknessвЂ™, Lovecraft reaches into the cosmos, bridging the divide between horror and science fiction. Another early piece, вЂThe OutsiderвЂ™ вЂ“ a tragic and emotive evocation of loneliness and desolation вЂ“ follows a manвЂ™s escape from his castle in a desperate search for human contact, but the loathsome truth he discovers destroys his mind. вЂвЂњ Great God! I never dreamed of THIS!вЂќвЂ™ screams occultist Harley Warren in вЂThe Statement of Randolph CarterвЂ™, as he begs his companion to bury him alive. Through their investigations into the unexplained, they tug at the thin threads that separate our world from another of indescribable horror. In stories written in the gothic tradition, narrators recount their descent into madness and despair. This collection spans LovecraftвЂ™s literary career, and charts the development of his вЂcosmicistвЂ™ philosophy the belief that behind the veil of our blinkered everyday lives lies another reality, too terrible for the human mind to comprehend.

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