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The Classic Horror Stories (Paperback)
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The Classic Horror Stories (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Loot Price R242
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'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over
the tottering cities of men. A time will come - but I must not and
cannot think!' H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive
scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that
specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He
often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure
in the slippery genre of 'weird fiction'. Lovecraft developed an
extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by
glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory
or by malevolent extra-terrestrial visitations. The ornate language
of his stories builds towards grotesque moments of revelation,
quite unlike any other writer. This new selection brings together
nine of his classic tales, focusing on the 'Cthulhu Mythos', a
cycle of stories that develops the mythology of the Old Ones, the
monstrous creatures who predate human life on earth. It includes
the Introduction from Lovecraft's critical essay, 'Supernatural
Horror in Literature', in which he gave his own important
definition of 'weird fiction'. In a fascinating contextual
introduction, Roger Luckhurst gives Lovecraft the attention he
deserves as a writer who used pulp fiction to explore a remarkable
philosophy that shockingly dethrones the mastery of man.
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