H. P. Lovecraft's Favourite Horror Stories, Volume 2
(2025)(The second book in the H. P. Lovecraft's Favourite Horror Stories series)
An anthology of stories edited by S T Joshi
H. P. Lovecraft was always on the lookout for good weird fiction, whether it was in the work of his predecessors or contemporaries or in the pulp magazines in which his own stories appeared. Several of the tales in this volume influenced some of the greatest of his own works. ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ owes something to A. Merritt’s ‘The Moon Pool’ and Guy de Maupassant’s ‘The Horla’; ‘The Colour out of Space’ may have drawn upon Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Damned Thing’; ‘The Dunwich Horror’ borrows elements from Anthony M. Rud’s ‘Ooze’; ‘The Shadow over Innsmouth’ has antecedents in tales by Irvin S. Cobb, Robert W. Chambers, and Algernon Blackwood. These and other classic stories of weird fiction included in this volume shed light on Lovecraft’s own creative processes and his wide appreciation of the greatest works of horror fiction written up to his own day.
Genre: Horror
Genre: Horror
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