H.P. Lovecraft

"One is drawn into Lovecraft by the very air of plausibility and characteristic understatement of the prose, the question being When will the weirdness strike?" writes Joyce Carol Oates in The New York Review of Books. Del Rey has reprinted Lovecraft's stories in three large-format paperbacks. This second volume, 25 …

Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs. Only one man has ever been there, and his reports are so astonishing that no-one is prepared to believe him; except the extraordinary Professor Challenger. He decides to take a trip to prove beyond doubt that this lost world …

Vansinnets berg, i nyöversättning Vid vansinnets berg, är en kort skräckroman av den amerikanske författaren H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft skrev romanen under februari-mars 1931 men den publicerades först 1936 i februari-, mars- och aprilnumren av tidningen Astounding Stories. Romanen översattes till svenska 1987 av Sam …

The story consists of two main narratives linked by a third, the voice of "author." Only the author is able to interpret correctly what happened and is aware of the importance of information you have in your power, and is narrating the order in which he was discovering the truth. It begins with the death of an eminent …

Lovecraft is "the American writer of the twentieth century most frequently compared with Poe, in the quality of his art ... [and] its thematic preoccupations (the obsessive depiction of psychic disintegration in the face of cosmic horror)," writes Joyce Carol Oates in the New York Review of Books. Del Rey has …