Mencken y otros escritores, sobre todo en el ámbito de la ficción sobrenatural y fantástica. Joshi (1958) es una de las principales autoridades en materia de H. Joshi sobre el hombre, el escritor y el pensador que fue Lovecraft. Yo soy Providence supone el esfuerzo monumental que constituye la última palabra de S.T.

Esta biografía definitiva, exhaustiva e hiperdocumentada de la mano del mayor experto mundial en su figura, disecciona a fondo su vida y obra literaria, y además traza un análisis pormenorizado de la época en la que vivió. Igualmente, su horror cósmico permea cine, artes plásticas, juegos de rol y videojuegos. Howard y Clark Ashton Smith, pero también en otros más contemporáneos como Stephen King, Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Jorge Luis Borges, Joyce Carol Oates o Thomas Ligotti. Su influencia literaria se percibe en autores coetáneos de su propio círculo como Robert E. Lovecraft (1890-1937) es considerado como uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX, especialmente con respecto a la literatura de terror.

Publisher: ABC-CLIO ISBN: 9780313315787 Number of pages: 360 Weight: 701 g Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23 mm Edition: Annotated edition You may also be interested in.H.P. As Lovecraft's renown continues to ascend in the 21st century, this encyclopedia will be essential to an understanding of his life and writings. The volume refers to current scholarship on the issues in question and also supplies the literary, topographical, and biographical sources for key elements in Lovecraft's work. The volume draws upon rare documents, including thousands of unpublished letters, in presenting plot synopses of Lovecraft's major works, descriptions of characters in his tales, capsule biographies of his major colleagues and family members, and entries on little known features in his stories, such as his imaginary book of occult lore, the Necronomicon. It includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries on Lovecraft and presents extensive bibliographical information. This encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to many aspects of Lovecraft's life and work, codifying the detailed research on Lovecraft conducted by many scholars over the past three decades. He is distinctive among writers in having a tremendous popular following as well as a considerable and increasing academic reputation as a writer of substance and significance. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century.

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