Name: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
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Author: H. P. Lovecraft
ISBN: 9781420982817

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Physical Book

Author

H. P. Lovecraft

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Digireads.com

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.2 cm

ISBN13

9781420982817

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

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Synopsis "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories"

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in the late nineteenth century to a well-to-do family, H. P. Lovecraft was largely unknown in his lifetime, being almost exclusively published in the pulp magazines of his day. It was not until a scholarly revival of H. P. Lovecraft's works in the 1970s that the author was fully appreciated for his contribution to the literary genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. At the center of Lovecraft's writing is his philosophy of cosmicism, which posits the idea that humans are essentially an insignificant part of the cosmos. Lovecraft is probably best remembered today for his stories concerning the Cthulhu Mythos, a fictional mythology named for a central creature in Lovecraft's seminal short story "The Call of Cthulhu". That work is included here in this collection along with seventeen other stories. In this representative collection, readers will find much cause for the celebration of Lovecraft's particular contributions to the genre of speculative fiction.

H. P. Lovecraft

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Providence, August 20, 1890-Providence, March 15, 1937) better known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer, author of stories and novels of horror and science fiction.

He is considered a great innovator of the horror story, to which he contributed his own mythology —the Cthulhu Mythos—, developed in collaboration with other authors, currently in force.

His work constitutes a classic of cosmic horror, a narrative line that deviates from traditional supernatural horror stories —satanism, ghosts—, including elements of science fiction such as, for example, alien races, time travel, or the existence of other dimensions.

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