Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre
Following the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft’s remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature Gathering together...
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Following the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft’s remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature Gathering together in chronological order the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, this collection includes the entirety of the long-out-of-print collection of 36 sonnets "Fungi from Yoggoth." Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, and the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which are featured within these pages. Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, completes the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards provides numerous illustrations for this must-have collection.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575099630 (0575099631)
Publish date: October 1st 2011
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 540
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
American,
Anthologies,
Poetry,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Lovecraftian,
Cthulhu Mythos,
Gothic Horror
I'm going to say 4 stars for now, just because the couple of bits & pieces I've read so far haven't been Lovecraft's finest. But there's plenty more still to read!