H.P. Lovecraft | The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
This collection spans Lovecraft’s literary career, and charts the development of his ‘cosmicist’ philosophy; the belief that behind the veil of our blinkered everyday lives lies another reality, too terrible for the human mind to comprehend. In stories written in the gothic tradition, narrators recount their descent into madness and despair. Through their investigations into the unexplained, they tug at the thin threads that separate our world from another of indescribable horror. "Great God! I never dreamed of THIS!" screams occultist Harley Warren in The Statement of Randolph Carter, as he begs his companion to bury him alive. Another early piece, The Outsider - a tragic and emotive evocation of loneliness and desolation - follows a man’s escape from his castle in a desperate search for human contact, but the loathsome truth he discovers destroys his mind.
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 20 cm
- Pages: 552