Book description
It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted
swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed
marsh ( ) H. P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century
practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil,
monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable. At the heart of these three
stories are terrors unthinkable and strange: a crash-landing meteorite,
the wretched inhabitant of an ancient castle and a grave-robber s curse.
This book includes The Colour Out Of Space, The Outsider and The Hound.
H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he
lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his
career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after
the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he
contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction
three short novels and about sixty short stories has nevertheless
exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is
regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of
supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.
