Lovecraft creates a new mythology inhabited by both living and dead beings, with origins in unknown stars or beyond time and space, seeking to unseat humans from their place of power. A student of mysticism, theosophy, and occultism, Lovecraft built worlds to unsettle his contemporaries and today’s readers alike. Lovecraft propone una imagen del mundo nueva para terrores novedosos. Crea una nueva mitología habitada por seres vivos, muertos o aletargados, venidos de estrellas que aún no conocemos, provenientes de ignotas dimensiones situadas más allá del tiempo y el espacio, que esperan para desalojar definitivamente a la humanidad de su sitial predominante. Estudioso de la mística, la teosofía, el ocultismo y otras disciplinas, edifica un museo del horror que espantó a sus contemporáneos y todavía hoy provoca terror en los nuevos lectores.
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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
