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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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Bag søvnens vægge. Fortællinger 1905-1925

Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937) er amerikansk horrorlitteraturs største navn mellem Edgar Allan Poe og Stephen King. I sin levetid opnåede han kun meget begrænset udbredelse, men senere har hans særegne, intense skrivestil og ofte kontroversielle verdensbillede fået kolossal indflydelse inden for både litteratur, fra Stephen King til Michel Houellebecq, film, tegneserier, rollespil, computerspil og musik, fra Metallica til Deadmau5. Dette bind indleder Lovecrafts forfatterskab og præsenterer hans samlede fortællinger fra debuten i 1905 og frem til forfatterskabets afgørende midterperiode fra 1926-1928, der tidligere er blevet udgivet i bindet ‘Cthulhu kalder’. I nærværende bind findes flere af de tekster, der er med til at forme de senere så udviklede mytologier, der blev Lovecrafts urovækkende arv til verden, side om side med etuder og skitser. Samtidig er der blevet plads til Lovecrafts vidtberømte essay ‘Overnaturlig Rædsel i Litteraturen’, et væsentligt bidrag i faglitteraturen om horrorgenren.
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Publish date16 Sep 2019
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ISBN epub9788771715668