A few years earlier, she had dated Alistair Crowley so she must have had a taste for morose men obsessed with the supernatural. She supported Lovecraft financially for several years, and famously described him as 'an adequately excellent lover' who never told her that he loved her. To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq.I have always been curious about Sonia Greene, the woman who married H.P. The Wicked Clergyman - incomplete so not rated The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - 7/10 (again great ideas but way too many details) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - 7/10 (good but waaay too long) The Strange High House in the Mist - 4/10 List of all the stories in this volume with my rating: Now I can reread Providence by Alan Moore with probably a better understanding of all the references. John is excellent with a good variety of voices and an impressive capacity to pronounce the Old Gods names and languages. In the end even though I found a lot of the texts quite dated or not to my liking (the poetry in particular) the whole œuvre with its complex mythology is simply incredible.Īlso the narration by Finn J.D.

So when I found this well edited audiobook of all the stories from the Cthulhu Mythos, I didn’t hesitate despite the 35 hours of listening time. I tried again earlier this year with At the Mountains of Madness and I absolutely loved it. I had read a few stories from Lovecraft a long time ago and didn’t like them very much.

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.

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