OL152263W Page_number_confidence 93.24 Pages 490 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211126083059 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 382 Scandate 20211120143819 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780870540387 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:atmountainsofmad0000love_b0o6:epub:952bdc31-530c-4e1e-ab89-c851fa9d6579 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier atmountainsofmad0000love_b0o6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s24pkn3hkk9 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0870540386 Lccn 85001254 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc2-1-gf788 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001002 Openlibrary_edition Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:07:39 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40296102 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft - as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century - has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction". Joshi and a new introduction by James Turner. Also includes: 'A Note on the Texts' by S.T. The 'corrected printing' volumes are to be the definitive texts. This is the first printing of corrected texts, which are edited by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality and the abyss.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. : AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS: Octavo, cloth.
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His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christian humanism. Read At the Mountains of Madness by Howard Phillips Lovecraft with a free trial. As early as the 1940s, Lovecraft had developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of humanity-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's guiding literary principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Aug– March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
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