Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who did not publish a single book during his lifetime, became a beacon and a touchstone for an entire genre, an idol to both the general reading public and refined intellectuals, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and his very name became a household word. Borges himself admired his stories, in which man’s place is on the distant periphery of the universal scheme of things, and otherworldly forces instill sacred terror in the souls of the unwary.
So, we present to your attention the classic works of one of the most influential myth-makers of the twentieth century, in definitive translations. "The Call of Cthulhu" is the calling card of the cosmic horror genre, the starting point of Lovecraft’s fathomless and nightmare-filled universe. It is said that the idea for the story came to the author in a dream. It is about how there are things better left unknown, because there is no escape from them. Francis Thurston discovers a bas-relief depicting a mysterious creature among the belongings of a deceased relative. His search for the truth leads him to a cult of an ancient deity sleeping in the depths of the Pacific Ocean... Who is it? And what will happen if it wakes from its slumber? In addition to stories and novellas, the volume includes the monumental study "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and even a cycle of sonnets.
Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Translation: S. Likhacheva, O. Michkovsky, V. Kulagina-Yartseva, E. Nagornykh, V. Dorogokuplya, S. Antonov, E. Musikhin, V. Ostanin, I. Bogdanov
Pages: 640 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 217x147x31 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books
