Tales of H.P. Lovecraft - Softcover

Joyce Carol Oates; Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060957905 ISBN 13: 9780060957902

Publisher: Ecco, 2000

Synopsis

A series of major works by the master of the horror genre--including "The Rates in the Walls" and "The Dreams in the Witch-House"--showcases his meticulously described and historically grounded style, which became the basis for the modern horror story. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A collection of ten prototypical stories by Lovecraft (18901937), the influential myth-and monster-maker of Providence, Rhode Island, whose extravagantly gothic tales have spawned and inspired such latterday disciples as Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell. It's ingenuous for Ecco to claim that ``Now, at last'' we have a representative Lovecraft (considering all that several publishers have done over the years to keep even his ephemera in print). Still, here are some of his best, including such comparatively little-known triumphs as a harrowing depiction of a surrender to madness (``The Dreams in the Witch-House'') and a superb haunted-house tale (``The Shunned House''). Oates's brief, incisive introduction suggestively compares Lovecraft's experiences and temperament with those of his mentor Poe, and helpfully summarizes the content of the former's apparently immortal ``Chthulu Mythos.'' One misses only Lovecraft's hair-raising novella ``The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.'' But even without it this attractive volume offers a fine chance to sample Lovecraft's ghoulish pleasures. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0060957905
• ISBN 13: 9780060957902
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352