El escritor H. P. Lovecraft, en su relativamente corta vida (1890-1937) perfecciona la inspiración de su maestro espiritual Edgar Allan Poe, en cuanto a concebir una atmósfera de terror en sus narraciones y crear así el terror cósmico. Abandona de una vez por todas los castillos góticos encantados, los fantasmas, vampiros y brujas para diseñar un inframundo de seres semihumanos, extraterrestres o extradimensionales, y el terror se transforma para el lector en un miedo a lo cósmico, al universo. En el mundo del autor existe siempre algo amenazador, pero no se sabe nunca su naturaleza hasta tal punto que por mucho que luchemos quedamos prendidos en ella.
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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
