H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of weird fiction of their era. Dominating the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, they have gained worldwide followings for their compelling writings and also for the very different lives they led. The two writers came in touch in 1930, when Howard wrote to Lovecraft via Weird Tales. A rich and vibrant correspondence immediately ensued. Both writers were fascinated with the past, especially the history of Roman and Celtic Britain, and their letters are full of intriguing discussions of contemporary theories on this subject.
Gradually, a new discussion came to the fore-a complex dispute over the respective virtues of barbarism and civilisation, the frontier and settled life, and the physical and the mental. Lovecraft, a scion of centuries-old New England, and Howard, a product of recently settled Texas, were diametrically opposed on these and other issues, and each writes compellingly of his beliefs, attitudes, and theories. The result is a dramatic debate-livened by wit, learning, and personal revelation-that is as enthralling as the fiction they were writing at the time. All the letters have been exhaustively annotated by the editors.
In the second volume of the letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the two authors continue their wide-ranging discussion of such central issues as the relative value of barbarism and civilization, the virtues of the frontier and of settled city life, and other related issues. Lovecraft regales Howard with his extensive travels up and down the eastern seaboard, including trips to Quebec, Florida, and obscure corners of New England, while Howard writes engagingly of his own travels through the lonely stretches of Texas. Each has great praise for the other's writings in Weird Tales and elsewhere, and each conducts searching discussions of literature, philosophy, politics, and economics in the wake of the depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt's election. World affairs, including the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, also engage their attention.
All letters are exhaustively annotated by the editors, and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography of both writers as well as the publication of a few letters to Lovecraft from Robert E. Howard's father, Dr. I. M. Howard, in the wake of his son's tragic and unexpected suicide.
Автор: , Lovecraft Howard P., Bartlett Matthew M. Название: A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession ISBN: 1927673232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781927673232 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Howard Robert E., Leiber Fritz, Lovecraft H. P. Название: Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack #2 ISBN: 1515410765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781515410768 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Weird Tales launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While Pulp magazines had been around for some time Weird Tales was the first pulp magazine to specialize in super natural fiction. Weird Tales single handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories in otherwise mundane magazines now they had a magazine all of their own that published only the stories that they wanted to read. Collected in this anthology are over two hundred thousand words of some of the greatest stories ever published in the pages of Weird Tales. Included are:
Red Nails by Robert E. Howard
The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore
Birthmark by Seabury Quinn
Spider Mansion by Fritz Leiber
Evolution Island by Edmond Hamilton
The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft
The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner
The Haunted Burglar by W. C. Morrow
The Lost Gods by Dorothy Quick
The Terror Of The Water-Tank by William Hope Hodgson
The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson
The Death of Ilalotha by Clark Ashton Smith
Each Man Kills by Victoria Glad
The Disc Recorder by August Derleth
The Doors of Death by Arthur B. Waltermire
Where Are You Mr. Biggs? by Nelson S. Bond
The Invaders by Benjamin Ferris
The Three Pools and the Painted Moon by Frank Owen
Werewolf of the Sahara by G.G. Pendarves
The People of the Black Circle by Robert E. Howard
This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft's life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Описание: This is Volume Two of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghost-written material and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.) Highlights of this volume include: The Color out of Space The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Dunwitch Horror The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing on the Doorstep The Shadow out of Time The Haunter of the Dark"
Автор: Howard Jonathan L. Название: Carter & Lovecraft ISBN: 1250060893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250060891 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 3218.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
"Carter & Lovecraft is a Pandora's box loaded with all the wonderfully twisted stuff I love, including a two-fisted homicide cop turned PI, warped realities, a mysterious bookstore, the Cthulhu mythos, a dash of romance, and creepy fish-men. What's not to love? Jonathan L. Howard knows how to show his readers a wickedly good time." --Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author Dead Ringers
Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case--the hunt for a serial killer--went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him.
First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man.
Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As Carter reluctantly investigates, he discovers that H. P. Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted, inheritance.
Описание: It`s late at night and the rain is pouring down on Dublin`s city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead child. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits anxiously for her mum to come home. She knows where she is, but she knows she cannot reach her. A few doors down, a widow has just delivered a bombshell to her family during dinner and her life is about to change forever. And an aspiring theatre director has just moved in across the street. But there are already a few things about her landlord that don`t quite add up. Welcome to Primrose Square! Trade paperback edtn.
