The Horror in the Museum. With Texts Edited by S. T. Joshi, and an Introduction by August Derleth.
por Lovecraft, H. P
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Arkham House Publishers, Inc., (1989). Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiii, 450 pp. Fine in a Near Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: Following S. T. Joshi’s acclaimed three-volume critical edition of the Lovecraft fiction, this final supplementary collection includes all known revisions and collaborations undertaken by Lovecraft on behalf of his friends and clients. As with previous volumes in this series, the texts preserved herein scrupulously follow archival manuscripts, typescripts, or original publications, and constitute the definitive edition of these stories. Since Lovecraft’s customary procedure as a revisionist was to discard his client’s draft and entirely rewrite the story in his own words much of the fiction in this collection represents original work by Lovecraft, including such notable contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos as “The Electric Executioner,” “Out of the Aeons,” and “The Diary of Alonzo Typer.” Supreme among the revisions in this volume is the brilliant nouvelle “The Mound,” which embodies Lovecrat’s satirical commentary on the Machine Age “decadence” of his era and which receives its first unabridged publication in the present edition. in the whole range of fantastic literature, Lovecraft created a new form that is neither pure fancy nor pure science fiction. He combined a factual and accurate scientific knowledge with its extension to the absolute limit in supernatural bizarerie. His work defies classification, for it is as much myth as reality -- both lore and legend their haunting, haunted best, and at the same time science at its most provocative. His tales have been termed the finest weird fantasy ever written, and yet also the most superbly literate science fiction. Lovecraft’s work has achieved an honored eminence among the great visionary fiction of the ages precisely because, while betraying no trace of the commonplace, his stories are based convincingly in the world of everyday reality, yet lure the mind into the farthest reaches of the imagination, the star-flung spaces of the universe, the cosmic realm of a master mythmaker.
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- The Horror in the Museum. With Texts Edited by S. T. Joshi, and an Introduction by August Derleth.
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- Lovecraft, H. P
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- Literature, Horror, Supernatural, Science Fiction
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