The Horror at Red Hook
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1500595365 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 44 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among his most celebrated tales is "The Call of Cthulhu", canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. . Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre
To Malone the sense of latent mystery in existence was always present. Daily life had for him come to be a phantasmagoria of macabre shadow-studies; now glittering and leering with concealed rottenness. In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he had thrilled at the imputations of evil in the world around. A Masterpiece of horror.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales is "The Call of Cthulhu", canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. . Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now
"Horrifically Offensive" according to Shafiya Naher. This is one of the most disgustingly racist, bigoted, pieces of literature that I have read all year. The writing is a god-awful catastrophe of "smart" words that are used to veil the grossly offensive discrimination and disrespect that is shown towards people of colour, poverty, and varying religious backgrounds. I sincerely hope the rest of Lovecraft's work isn't this type of ridiculousness because if it is, then I have no idea how someone like him could be so idolized in the literary world. Unacceptable.. An Acquired Taste Lovecraft is an acquired taste, but there's nothing like him. Be warned however, he's nowhere near politically correct—even for his time.. I only read "Red Hook" in order to read "The Ballad of Black Tom" - otherwise, I wouldn't reccomend it. Mark Armstrong I don't really like Lovecraft himself, but I do like Lovecraftian Horror.His language is archaic. (Some find his language fun and tone setting. I don't. Modern Lovecraftian Horror does just fine in setting a mood without the semi-incomprehensible language that Lovecraft used.)His racism is hard to overlook.And sometimes, the way he tells a story is hard to follow, bordering on incoherent.But, I wanted to read the book "The Ballad of Black Tom"; which expounds upon the story "The Horror at Red Hook."So far (half-way through), "The B