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! Read * H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror by Cold Spring Press ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror R. This is the anthology of favorite weird tales that Lovecraft himself hoped to compile!"To understand why Lovecraft regarded these stories as the touchstone for greatness in the literature of supernatural horror is to understand the significance of the genre itself. Lovecraft's favorite horror stories, those that inspired and awed him!In 1929-30, H.P. L. Shiel, A. James, Algernon Blackwood, M. Chambers, M. Lovecraft made some lists of both literary and popular stories "having the greatest amou
| Title | : | H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.43 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593600569 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Anderson is a Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Winner and one of the best-known fantasy scholars and anthologists. . He is the author/editor of The Annotated Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin, revised 2002) and Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy (Ballantine, 2003), and is Cold Spring Press's series editor for our classic fantasy and horror series. Douglas A
R. This is the anthology of favorite weird tales that Lovecraft himself hoped to compile!"To understand why Lovecraft regarded these stories as the touchstone for greatness in the literature of supernatural horror is to understand the significance of the genre itself. Lovecraft's favorite horror stories, those that inspired and awed him!In 1929-30, H.P. L. Shiel, A. James, Algernon Blackwood, M. Chambers, M. Lovecraft made some lists of both literary and popular stories "having the greatest amount of truly cosmic horror and macabre convincingness." These lists of his favorite weird tales make for a truly landmark Lovecraftian anthology. Burks, and John Martin Leahy. Humphreys, H.F. Contributors include Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Robert W. Arnold, Everil Worrell, Arthur J. Many of these stories are classics, inspiring several generations since of the world's best horror authors. The classic works included in this collection, along with Lovecraft's
A Solid Collection Of Artful Horrors Art Turner The premise of H.P.LOVECRAFT'S FAVORITE WEIRD TALES is certainly interesting - take several stories that horror master Lovecraft regarded as his favorite pieces of weird short fiction, based on his correspondence, and compile tham together in one volume. If you think this would yield an enjoyable book, you'd be correct - there really isn't a bad story in the bunch (the closest thing to a clunker is M.P. Shiel's "The House Of Sounds. "Superlative collection" according to Harold Billings. This is an absolutely superlative collection -- important for its assemblage of some of the very best of the horror genre and also because it helps provide historical insight into the tastes of H.P. Lovecraft, serving as a reading guide for his classic SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE. It also helps that this has such nice readable type!--unlike many of the collections of similar material released in paperback. Doug Anderson conti. Fantastic Introduction to Weird Fiction A. Seegert Wonderful book. This is the best single go-to collection I've found for pre-Lovecraftian weird fiction. The Machen and Blackwood alone would make this anthology shine but the inclusion of Poe, Chambers, M.R. James, Bierce, and others make it that much richer and more diverse. I used this text for teaching an introductory course on Weird Fiction and it worked very well.
He is the author/editor of The Annotated Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin, revised 2002) and Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy (Ballantine, 2003), and is Cold Spring Press's series editor for our classic fantasy and horror series. About the Author Douglas A. . Anderson is a Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Winner and one of the best-known fantasy scholars and anthologists
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