Synopsis
A bookish, impoverished, writer of horror stories for pulp magazines, H.P. Lovecraft died in 1937 as a marginal scribbler who had never published a book. It is a testament to his posthumous rise from cult figure to celebrated master of the genre that the Library of America has released a selection of his works, placing him alongside Faulkner and Poe in the pantheon of great American writers.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2005-03-30 | | Series: | The Library of America Series | | Editor: | Peter Straub |
| Size | | Length: | 838 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
A collection of classic works by the turn-of-the-twentieth-century horror master offers insight into his unique style and includes such pieces as, "The Shadow Out of Time," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "At the Mountains of Madness."
Industry Reviews
"A landmark that lifts Lovecraft from pulp to Poe as a master of macabre fantasy and horror....Straub's notes fascinate." (starred review)
Kirkus (12/01/2004)
"[Lovecraft's] narratives still captivate by their convincing realism, which applies not only to the small New England towns he created, but to the alien entities that beset them."
Times Literary Supplement - Michael T. Saler (03/04/2005)
"This edition represents the latest scholarship....[A]ll the best fiction is here in a book sure to help reinforce Lovecraft's place in the American literary canon." (starred review)
Publishers Weekly (01/03/2005)
"[The tales are] well chosen by Peter Straub....Taken as a whole, Lovecraft's work exhibits a hopeless isolation not unlike that of Samuel Beckett....There is something funny about this--in small doses. But by the end of this collection, one does not hear giggling so much as the echoes of those giggles as they vanish in to the ether--lonely, desperate, and yes, very, very scary."
New York Times Book Review - Daniel Handler (04/17/2005)
"[H.P. Lovecraft] was a nerd on a grand scale...a heroic nerd, a pallid, translucent, Mallarmean nerd, a nerd who suffered for his art. His art consisted exclusively of conveying horror, and in this his range was encyclopedic."
(10/19/2006)
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