The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

Posted on 26 October 2018 by H.P. Lovecraft

With an increasing distance from the twentieth century the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures, writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H P Lovecraft Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty six, Lovecraft s work had appeared only in dime store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction Joyce Carol Oates.In this volume, Leslie S Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft s uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.Over the course of his career, Lovecraft the Copernicus of the horror story Fritz Leiber made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings One of the progenitors of weird fiction, Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization.Following his best selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S Klinger collects here twenty two of Lovecraft s best, most chilling Arkham tales, including The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, and others With nearly 300 illustrations, including full color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H P Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep. 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Lovecraft ] – kino-fada.fr I can t say I like H.P Lovecraft His text is suffused with overt racism, sexism, homophobia, anti Semitism,subtle racism, blah blah blah I can t say I like reading H.P Lovecraft Reading him is a slog This book, while beautiful, was a slog The annotations were generally interesting but there was a point where I did not need anyEuclidian geometric details Which got the annotations Unlike the non Euclidian ones Which generally make my eyes glaze over though they clearly scared I can t say I like H.P Lovecraft His text is suffused with overt racism, sexism, homophobia, anti Semitism,subtle racism, blah blah blah I can t say I like reading H.P Lovecraft Reading him is a slog This book, while beautiful, was a slog The annotations were generally interesting but there was a point where I did not need anyEuclidian geometric details Which got the annotations Unlike the non Euclidian ones Which generally make my eyes glaze over though they clearly scared the shit out of H P BUT But H P Lovecraft put his thumb on something fundamental about America About who we are About the things that make us tremble, all the way down About those terrors, just beyond the edge of the firelight I can t say this text is satisfying Agai...This annotated collection of some of Lovecraft s tales was quite a treat I enjoyed the introduction to the book, as it described how some of the tales were selected for inclusion These were annotated some with illustrations to compliment the text, and the stories appeared in the order that they were originally published As a Lovecraft fan, I have most of his works collected in various hardcover volumes, so these stories really weren t new to melike visiting some favorites However, This annotated collection of s...Post Read I think I would have benefitted from getting the physical copy of this book Annotated digital editions are always a bit awkward.So, everyone knows about the fiction You either love or hate HPL This book is a decent selection of hisaccessible, Mythos centric stories.The annotations are interesting and marginallyinsightful than other annotated HPL fiction, if not entirely illuminating to those already familiar with HPL and the era in which he wrote See my sidebar comment Post Read I think I would have benefitted from getting the physi...eeep lookit the cover we wants it.This is a beautiful book first lovely printed cover and when removed reveals a elegantly embossed silver on black binding.To read Lovecraft in an historical context, in association with the stories is wonderful Inside are photographs, maps, events, along with news and adverts of the times another important aside is the entries related to Lovecrafts work some excellent scholarly research that shows that he now deserves a place among the classics.If you have read...Practically perfect in every possible way Leslie S Klinger presents the major Arkham Cycle stories by H.P Lovecraft in this elegant volume, and his annotations enlighten and enhance the reader s experience with historical context, magazine cover artwork, photos of relevant sites, etc without stepping on the toes of other critical editions of Lovecraft s stories, such as S.T Joshi s annotated collections This is the perfect introduction for Lovecraft newbies, but there s much here to Practically perfect in every possible way Leslie S Klinger presents the major Arkham Cycle stories by H.P Lovecraft in this elegant volume, and his annota...I ve enjoy d the entire book, reread several of ye stories for the joy of drinking in the excellent writing, the superior prose style, the vast intellectual depth of imagination I enjoy d moft of Leslie s annotations, although I found some that were odd and, shockingly, some that were completely wrong regarding facts The hundreds of illustrations were a wonderful addition I am very pleas d that Klinger has announced that he will be working on a second volume, NEW ANNOTATED H P I ve enjoy d the entire book, reread several of ye st...I m not sure that I ll review every story in this excellent collection, but I ll maybe add a few thoughts as I go along Dagon The lost at sea story line reminded me somewhat of stories by William Hope Hodgson and H.G Wells, both of whom were writers admired by Lovecraft The story itself is fairly straight forward, but effective nonetheless due to Lovecraft s trademark vagueness in respect of detailing the horrors encountered by the narrator Some interesting annotations regarding WWI I m not sure that I ll review every story in this excellent collection, but I ll maybe add a few thoughts as I go alon...As is my wont in October, I always like to read a bit of horror Normally I read a few books in that genre, but this year, with the recent publication of The New Annotated H.P Lovecraft, I decided to pay my respects to the Master of the genre This was no light undertaking, as not only is the book over 900 pages long with 22 sto...Beautifully done book A wonderful celebration of HP Lovecrafts work Five stars all around for the lovely illustrations, annotations Lots of historical and cultural references I ve read a fair amount of Lovecraft but this is the book to get for any fan You get tidbits here and there. for example he was not happy with the Herber...

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