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Es medianoche. Antes del alba darn conmigo y me encerraran en una celda negra, donde languidecer interminablemente, mientras insaciables deseos roen mis entraas y consumen mi corazn, hasta ser al fin

La mayor parte de la obra de lovecraft está llena de criaturas extrañas y amenazas cósmicas. En los relatos que aquí se presentan, los poersonajes son hombres comunes que enfrentan lo extraordinario y lo terrofifico. El mismo Lovecraft afirmaba que "antaño nuestro mundo estuvo poblado por razas que, por practicar la magia negra, perdieron sus conquistas y fueron expulsados, pero viven aun en el exterior, dispuestos en todo momento a volver a apoderarse de la tierra".

La trágica historia de Wilbur Watheley, los abominables sucesos acaecidos en Dunwich, hunden al lector en un mundo habitado por pesadillas monstruosas. Las extraordinarias ilustraciones de Santiago Caruso describen con intensidad uno de los relatos mas fascinantes de H. P. Lovecraft.

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night. En la degenerada y apartada comunidad de Dunwich, nace Wilbur Whateley, un niño de lo más extraordinario. De ascendencia sobrenatural, crece a un ritmo vertiginoso hasta alcanzar una altura inquietante, pero la llegada del chico sólo es el prólogo del verdadero horror: uno de los Primigenios, que amenazará no sólo el descanso nocturno de los habitantes del pueblo...

Ed. Juan Antonio Molina Foix. El horror sobrenatural en la literatura (1927) va más allá de una confesión muy personal acerca de los libros que más influyeron en HPL, y constituye posiblemente el estudio sobre el genero fantastico mas completo y valioso escrito hasta la fecha. Tras unos capitulos iniciales dedicados a la ficcion sobrenatural en la antiguedad y a la novela gotica en el Reino Unido y el resto de Europa, llegamos al capitulo VII, dedicado por completo a Poe, culminacion del movimiento gotico y a la vez iniciador de una tradicion completamente nueva. Repasa a continuacion la tradicion fantastica en Estados Unidos (Hawthorne, Irving, Bierce...) y en las Islas Britanicas (Stoker, Benson, Hodgson...), para llegar finalmente a los maestros modernos (Machen, Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M.R. James...) Como complemento a esta edicion, ampliamente anotada por J.A. Molina Foix, se han incluido nueve apendices intimamente relacionados con ella, y en su gran mayoria ineditos, entre los que cabe destacar una extensa bibliografia de todos los titulos y autores citados, listas de relatos favoritos de Lovecraft, ideas, imagenes y citas para su posible uso en relatos futuros, o notas autobiograficas.

Destacado autor de literatura fantástica, H. P. Lovecraft es considerado el creador del relato de terror contemporáneo, en el que al elemento sobrenatural se añaden las visiones oníricas, motivos de leyendas mitologicas remotas y la elaboracion de temas especificos de la ciencia ficcion. En sus cuentos, bajo la realidad cotidiana late un universo de horror cosmico poblado por seres abominables, fuerzas ocultas y terrores antiguos nunca superados por el hombre. Los once relatos recogidos en esta antologia dan cuenta de la originalidad y variedad de su obra.

En el marc gòtic d'una casa ruïnosa minada per recintes secrets i d'una ciutat decrèpita que al cap de segles manté vius els espants de la caça de bruixes a Massachusetts de 1692, un jove nerviós se

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. The stories collected here include some of Lovecraft's finest, including "The Call of Cthulhu," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," and "The Shadow out of Time." The volume also includes vital extracts from Lovecraft's critical essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature," in which he gave his own important definition of "weird fiction." In a fascinating 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.Featuring a chronology, bibliography, and informative notes, this is a must-have critical edition for Lovecraft aficionados, and the best introduction to his work for first-time visitors to his strange fictional world.

'What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise...' Mad, macabre tales of demonic spirits, hideous rites, ancient curses and alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England, from the man who created the modern horror story. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw it. One of the core Cthulhu stories, The Dunwich Horror introduces us to the grim village of Dunwich, where each member of the Whateley family is more grotesque than the other. There's the grandfather, a mad old sorcerer; Lavinia, the deformed, albino woman; and Wilbur, a disgusting specimen who reaches full manhood in less than a decade. And above all, there's the mysterious presence in the farmhouse, unseen but horrifying, which seems to be growing . . . Wilbur tracks down an original edition of the Necronomicon and breaks into a library to steal it. But his reward eludes him: he gets caught, and the result is death by guard dog. Meanwhile, left unattended, the monster at the Whateley house keeps expanding, until the farmhouse explodes and the beast is unleashed to terrorize the poor, aggrieved village of Dunwich. As chilling today as it was upon its publication in 1929, The Dunwich Horror is a horrifying masterwork by the man Stephen King called "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued by the constant noise of rats scurrying within its walls. As the sound begins to haunt his dreams, he investigates the house and discovers a horrific secret underneath, which will bring him to the point of madness. Considered one of the most accomplished examples of the horror genre, 'The Rats in the Walls' is presented here along with other quintessentially Lovecraftian tales - such as 'The Dunwich Horror', 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'The Colour out of Space' and 'The Horror at Red Hook' - in a brand-new collection which will delight new readers and those familiar with the blood-curdling imaginary worlds of the twentieth century's master of terror.

When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth. However, when he starts receiving letters from a man named Henry Wentworth Akeley about the supposed presence near his farmhouse of an extraterrestrial race worshipping ancient cosmic deities, Wilmarth finds himself drawn into an astonishing correspondence that leads to a harrowing discovery.

'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity.' Only the expansive imagination of H.P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as The Picture in the House, The Music of Erich Zann and The Rats in the Walls, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft's earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime. H.P. Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulhu Mythos has influenced many modern authors, and still remains at the forefront of supernatural literature.

Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. 'They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.' From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century. Here are some of Lovecraft's weirdest flesh-creeping masterpieces, including Pickman's Model, The Shunned House, his famous serial Herbert West - Reanimator, and several classic tales from the Cthulhu Mythos, in which mankind is subjected to the unimaginable terrors known only to those who have read from the forbidden Necronomicon. Also included in this compelling collection are the complete Randolph Carter stories, chronicling his adventures in this world and the realm of his dreams, where he faces perils beyond comprehension.