After more than an hour invested, I just don't care what the hell happens in Randolph Carter's dream world which is a hot mess of anything and everything goes non-story reading like stream of consciousness writing. yes, this is dragging out.)ġ6/Oct/22: 48: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Up next.ġ6/Oct/22: 47: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath: My first DNF. Planning for a lot more Lovecraftian tales in 2023 (and possibly 2024. I'm going to read the whole of this book in 2019, 2020 2021 2022 2023, in order (most recently read at top.) He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. 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. The Strange High House in the Mist (1926) It includes the year each story was written.įacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920) The eBook’s table of contents is listed below.
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