Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

When he died in 1937, destitute and emotionally as well as physically ruined, H. P. Lovecraft had no idea that he would one day be celebrated as the godfather of modern horror. A dark visionary, his work would influence an entire generation of writers, including Stephen King, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, and Anne Rice. Now, the most important tales of this distinctive American storyteller have been collected in a single volume by National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates. In tales that combine the nineteenth-century gothic sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe with a uniquely daring internal vision, Lovecraft fuses the supernatural and mundane into a terrifying, complex, and exquisitely realized vision, foretelling a psychically troubled century to come. Set in a meticulously described New England landscape, here are harrowing stories that explore the total collapse of sanity beneath the weight of chaotic events--stories of myth and madness that release monsters into our world. Lovecraft's universe is a frightening shadow world where reality and nightmare intertwine, and redemption can come only from below.

About the author

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Carol Oates, H. P. Lovecraft, Joyce Carol Oates
• Assisted by: Joyc Carol Oates (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2007
• EAN: 9780061374609
• ISBN: 978-0-06-137460-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Occult & Supernatural, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Horror, FICTION: Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Dystopian, FICTION: Gothic, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century