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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: ; August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he spent most of his life there, and his fiction was primarily set against a New England backdrop. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor, and he subsisted in progressively strained circumstances in his last years. He died of cancer at the age of 46.

Lovecraft was virtually unknown during his lifetime and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of weird and horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales are The Rats in the Walls, The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time. His writings were the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of pastiches, games, music and other media drawing on Lovecraft's characters, setting and themes, constituting a wider body of work known as Lovecraftian horror.

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El Caso de Charles Dexter Ward

Extenso relato de H. P. Lovecraft, perteneciente a su primera etapa de cuentos góticos y muy influidos tanto por el estilo como por los trucos de estructura de Edgar Allan Poe. En él se trata la historia de un científico loco capaz de reanimar cadáveres y su relación con el narrador de la historia a lo largo de los años, en una espiral cada vez mayor de truculencia y venganza. Esta historia, una de las más celebradas de su autor, dio origen a la famosa película Reanimator. Howard Phillips Lovecraft es un escritor nacido en Providence, Estados Unidos, en 1890 y fallecido en 1937. A día de hoy se le reconoce como uno de los más grandes autores de terror junto con Edgar Allan Poe, y muchos lo consideran uno de los precursores de la ciencia ficción. Sus obras, una mezcla de terror, ciencia ficción y fantasía oscura, han sido descritas con términos como ficción extraña u horror cósmico. No disfrutó de éxito alguno en vida, aunque a modo póstumo sus obras han pasado a formar parte de los grandes clásicos de la literatura de género universal.
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Publish date23 Oct 2020
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ISBN audio9788726636840