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La originalidad y la elevada estimación alcanzada por H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) en el género del relato de terror radica en haber trasladado los resortes del género desde un más allá sobrenatural a un mundo de abominaciones cuya plausibilidad respaldan la ciencia, la razon y, en ultima instancia, deseos y temores ancestrales. De las cuatro narraciones que integran este volumen, El horror de Dunwich y El susurrador en la oscuridad se encuadran dentro del ambito de los mitos de Cthulhu, mientras que El modelo de Pickman y El extraño corresponden al ciclo de relatos de Nueva Inglaterra.

Continuador de la tradición del cuento de terror, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) innovó el género con aportaciones procedentes de una veta personalísima de temas y obsesiones en la que se dan cita el mundo sobrenatural, el saber esoterico y las ensoñaciones oniricas. Creador de una mitologia fantastica y prolifico autor de cuentos y relatos breves, publico asimismo tres novelas, entre las que destaca El caso de Charles Dexter Ward, obra en que el horror se funde con materiales narrativos de naturaleza realista en el mejor estilo lovecraftiano.

"The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecrafts fictional town of Arkham. He comes across a mysterious patch of land, an abandoned five-acre farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life.

"The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecrafts fictional town of Arkham. He comes across a mysterious patch of land, an abandoned five-acre farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life.

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecrafts death.Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecrafts earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.

"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecrafts fictional text the Necronomicon,The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects they collect from the various graves they have robbed, they organize the private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls, and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also included statues, frightful paintings, and a locked portfolio bound in tanned human-skin.

Relatos de terror reúne oito contos de Lovecraft ("A tumba", "Do máis alá", "Herbert West, reanimador", "O can", "A ceremonia", "El", "A besta da cova" e "O alquimista") que amosan como este xenial a

"Tra i romanzi e racconti di Lovecraft se ne possono isolare cinque, scritti fra il 1919 e il 1934, che hanno per protagonista Randolph Carter, evidentemente l''alter ego dell''autore, che giunto a trent''anni cerca di forzare la Porta del Sogno per penetrare nel mondo perduto della sua infanzia o in quello parallelo, il ""mondo dei sogni"", appunto, o dreamlands. Questi testi, risistemati in ordine logico, possono legittimamente essere considerati una sorta di autobiografia ""fantastica"" dell''autore stesso, perche pur se trasfigurate narrano le sue avventure reali e oniriche, intellettuali e materiali (i viaggi nel New England ecc.). Non solo, in una storia si prendono anche le difese del suo modo di scrivere narrativa horror... Il volume e corredato da un apparato critico inedito: note esplicative, riferimenti e traduzioni e, in appendice, un ""dizionarietto"" degli esseri singolari e mostruosi che Carter/Lovecraft incontra nel suo viaggio onirico oltre la Porta del Sogno. Il libro viene pubblicato in occasione del settantesimo anniversario della scomparsa dell''autore ed e rivolto sia ai lettori che gia conoscono Lovecraft, sia agli amanti della letteratura del terrore. "

Contributor: Andrew Francis Lockhart, Rheinhart Kleiner and / Frank Belknap Long

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.The Stories included are:-The Nameless City-The Festival-The Colour Out of Space-The Call of Cthulhu-The Dunwich Horror-The Whisperer in Darkness-The Dreams in the Witch House-The Haunter of the Dark-The Shadow Over Innsmouth-Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"-The Shadow Out of Time-At the Mountains of Madness-The Case of Charles Dexter Ward-Azathoth-Beyond the Wall of Sleep-Celephais-Cool Air-Dagon-Ex Oblivione-Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family-From Beyond-He-Herbert West-Reanimator-Hypnos-In the Vault-Memory-Nyarlathotep-Pickmans Model-The Book-The Cats of Ulthar-The Descendant-The Doom That Came to Sarnath-The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath-The Evil Clergyman-The Horror at Red Hook-The Hound-The Lurking Fear-The Moon-Bog-The Music of Erich Zann-The Other Gods-The Outsider-The Picture in the House-The Quest of Iranon-The Rats in the Walls-The Shunned House-The Silver Key-The Statement of Randolph Carter-The Strange High House in the Mist-The Street-The Temple-The Terrible Old Man-The Thing on the Doorstep-The Tomb-The Transition of Juan Romero-The Tree-The Unnamable-The White Ship-What the Moon Brings-Polaris-The Very Old Folk-Ibid-Old Bugs-Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl-A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson-The History of the Necronomicon

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