Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing—including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West—Reanimator", "Pickman's Model", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Horror at Red Hook" and more.
Did Lovecraft believe in ghosts or paranormal phenomena? In what story does the narrator fear riding the Boston T?
A pathfinder in the literary territory of the macabre, H.P. Lovecraft is one of America's giants of the horror genre. Now, in this second volume of annotated tales, Lovecraft scholars S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon provide another rare opportunity to look into the mind of a genius. Their extensive notes lift the veil between real events in the writer's life—such as the death of his father—and the words that spill out onto the page in magnificent grotesquerie. Mansions, universities, laboratories, and dank New England boneyards appear also as the haunts where Lovecraft's characters confront the fabulous and fantastic, or—like the narrator in "Herbert West—Reanimator"—dig up fresh corpses.
Richly illustrated and scrupulously researched, this extraordinary work adds exciting levels of meaning to Lovecraft's chilling tales . . . and increases our wonder at the magic that transforms life into a great writer's art.
0 有用 芳草碧莲天 2021-12-25 16:10:07
too…finely crafted for the most parts, the sense of deliberation maxed out / 导读里提到他对自己早先作品的贬低,我还寻思其中有几成谦虚,后来发现,啊,挺中肯,好几篇都十分anticlimactic / Herbert West的人设倒是挺有意思,尤其是外貌设定 / 净写些secretively close male com... too…finely crafted for the most parts, the sense of deliberation maxed out / 导读里提到他对自己早先作品的贬低,我还寻思其中有几成谦虚,后来发现,啊,挺中肯,好几篇都十分anticlimactic / Herbert West的人设倒是挺有意思,尤其是外貌设定 / 净写些secretively close male companionships 噫~ / 行文太过太过dense,唉……don't want to be reminded of my poor poor vocabulary in every goddamn sentence...洛老的才华与cosmicism魔力也许需要脱离文本去享受。 (展开)
0 有用 芳草碧莲天 2021-12-25 16:10:07
too…finely crafted for the most parts, the sense of deliberation maxed out / 导读里提到他对自己早先作品的贬低,我还寻思其中有几成谦虚,后来发现,啊,挺中肯,好几篇都十分anticlimactic / Herbert West的人设倒是挺有意思,尤其是外貌设定 / 净写些secretively close male com... too…finely crafted for the most parts, the sense of deliberation maxed out / 导读里提到他对自己早先作品的贬低,我还寻思其中有几成谦虚,后来发现,啊,挺中肯,好几篇都十分anticlimactic / Herbert West的人设倒是挺有意思,尤其是外貌设定 / 净写些secretively close male companionships 噫~ / 行文太过太过dense,唉……don't want to be reminded of my poor poor vocabulary in every goddamn sentence...洛老的才华与cosmicism魔力也许需要脱离文本去享受。 (展开)