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Herbert West: Reanimator (Dodo Press)
Contributor(s): Lovecraft, H. P. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1409936481     ISBN-13: 9781409936480
Publisher: Dodo Press
OUR PRICE: $11.04  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2008
* Out of Print *
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: 813.52
Physical Information: 0.12" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.18 lbs) 48 pages
 
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. He 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. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of Enlightenment, Romanticist, and Christian humanism. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and 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.
 
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