« Ces courtes phrases apparaissent comme l'essence de sa pensée. Lovecraft arrive à y évoquer, cliniquement, des horreurs indicibles, des monstres tapis dans l'obscurité, des cités sous-marines. » LIBÉRATION De longtemps une œuvre culte : le tout petit carnet de notes de Lovecraft, où pendant quinze ans, de 1919 à 1934, il accumule plus de 200 projets ou sujets d’histoires, dans la folie ou l’horreur. Son atelier, son laboratoire. Et si ces notes valaient pour elles-mêmes comme nouvel art de la fiction brève, ultra-brève ? François Bon Né aux États-Unis en 1890 et mort en 1937, Howard Phillips Lovecraft est considéré aujourd’hui comme l’un des écrivains d’horreur et de science-fiction les plus importants du xxe siècle. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par François Bon
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. — Wikipedia
