"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century…the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period’s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of "incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates). In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work. Over the course of his career, Lovecraft―"the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber)―made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction," Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization. Following his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep.

Una nueva edición anotada con 25 relatos más, así como una serie de revisiones y colaboraciones de Lovecraft con otros autores nunca antes publicadas. Klinger vuelve a reunir en un nuevo volumen 25 relatos más, así como una serie de revisiones y colaboraciones de Lovecraft con otros autores nunca antes publicadas, con cientos de anotaciones e imágenes, H. P. Lovecraft anotado. Más allá de Arkham ofrece una imagen completa de los logros literarios de Lovecraft y aclara muchos puntos oscuros de la biografía y la literatura del autor. Ningún amante de su literatura querrá quedarse sin esta edición. Contenido: •Introducción por Victor LaValle •Prólogo •Nota del editor LOS RELATOS •La cripta •Polaris •La transición de Juan Romero •La maldición que cayó sobre Sarnath •El Viejo Terrible •Los gatos de Ulthar •Hechos relativos al difunto Arthur Jermyn y su familia •El templo •Celefaïs •Del más allá •Ex oblivione •La búsqueda de Iranon •El extraño •Los otros dioses •La música de Erich Zann •El terror acechante •I. La sombra en la chimenea •II. Un alma perdida en la tormenta •III. Qué había sido aquel fulgor rojizo •IV. El horror en los ojos •Las ratas de las paredes •Bajo las pirámides •La casa evitada •El horror de Red Hook •Él •Aire frío •La extraña casa elevada entre la niebla •El modelo de Pickman •La búsqueda en sueños de la ignota Kadath MATERIAL ADICIONAL •Apéndice 1: Cronología de la vida y la carrera de Howard Phillips Lovecraft •Apéndice 2: Las historias de H. P. Lovecraft, en orden cronológico •Apéndice 3: El encantamiento de «Red Hook» •Apéndice 4: Índice geográfico lovecraftiano •Agradecimientos •Bibliografía citada