Lovecraft's vast body of work-a mythos in which humanity is a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by ancient alien beings-is increasingly being recognised as the foundation for American horror and science fiction. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft and charts the rise of the pulp writer. But at the time of his death, Lovecraft was maligned by critics and ignored by the public. "Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period's most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures", writes Alan Moore. It is meticulously and imaginatively edited, beautifully illustrated and immaculately produced, with a thought-stirring introduction by the graphic novel writer Alan Moore." New Statesman "Norton's new volume must surely be the definitive collection.
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