Todos los tres relatos poseían un eje que sostenía el suspenso: en la Llamada de Cthulhu era la muerte de un familiar del protagonista (no es spoiler) en el Horror de Dunwich era Wilbur, su familia y los secretos que guardaban y en la Sombra sobre Innsmouth era todo ese pueblo costero (Este último fue mi favorito, tiene un final que me dejó impactado.) El primer cuento es toda una introducción al mundo Lovecraftniano.

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.Įs una lastima que esta edición sólo trajera tres relatos de Lovecraft porque ahora quiero leer toda su obra.Īlgo que quiero aplaudirle a Lovecraft es esa capacidad que tiene para crear misterio desde un comienzo y mantenerlo en todo el trayecto de la narración, tal vez sea porque uno ya sabe la clase de monstruo con la que trabaja este autor, o porque él, simplemente, es un genio. 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. The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales is your passport to realms of unimaginable horror. In these stories, monstrous entities traverse the gulfs of time and space and humankind cowers in fright at the havoc they wreak. The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales collects 23 of Lovecraft's greatest weird tales, including 'The Call of Cthulhu,' 'The Colour out of Space,' 'The Dunwich Horror,' 'The Shadow over Innsmouth,' and 'The Shadow out of Time.' It also features six collaborative 'revisions' through which Lovecraft expanded the scope of his dark mythology. Lovecraft's greatest contribution to supernatural literature: a series of stories that evoked cosmic awe and terror through their accounts of incomprehensibly alien monsters and their horrifying incursions into our world.

Tales by H.P. Lovecraft