Finn J. D. John Knihy

This full collection of tales by the master of eldritch, H. P. Lovecraft himself, will take you through monsters, cosmic horrors, and ancient evil.

This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft's "apprentice years" roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925. Highlights of this volume include: The Tomb Dagon The Doom that Came to Sarnath The Temple The Picture in the House The Nameless City The Outsider The Other Gods The Music of Erich Zann Herbert West, Reanimator The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls The Shunned House The Festival The Horror at Red Hook In the Vault Supernatural Horror in Literature

Two of Lovecraft's best essays on the subject of supernatural horror fiction and how to write it. Within these essays, Lovecraft explores the origins and traditions of the genre in Britain, America and beyond with special reference to the most notable movements, themes, motifs, techniques, and writers past and present. A unique little book highly recommended for readers and writers interested in Lovecraft's literature and writing style. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction. Though his works remained largely unknown and did not furnish him with a decent living, Lovecraft is today considered to be among the most significant writers of supernatural horror fiction of the twentieth century. Contents include: "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction". Other notable works by this author include: "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Rats in the Walls", and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Read & Co. Books is publishing this brand new collection of essays complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Sbírka básní Houby z Yuggothu (Fungi from Yuggoth) je výjimečná kniha. Je to jediná známá Lovecraftova sbírka poezie. Jde o věnec sonetů, šestatřicet tematicky i dějově provázaných textů, stylově mezi Petrarkou a Shakespearem, napsaných z valné většiny v devíti dnech na přelomu let 1929 a 1930. Dnes funguje jednak jako metatext, tedy jako poezie odvozená motivicky i v konkrétních obrazech od jiných, předcházejících Lovecraftových prozaických textů, jednak jako prototext, který motivy i obrazy nabízí pro další využití. A přímé i volnější odkazy nemíří jen za H. P. Lovecraftem, ale i za jeho druhy v hororové zbrani, jimiž byli lord Dunsany nebo Robert W. Chambers. Sbírka vznikla v době, kdy se Lovecraftův specifický fikční svět rozvíjel, probarvoval, konkretizoval – ovšem nebyl ještě zdaleka hotový. Jednotlivá čísla sbírky jsou výpravná, dějová, navazují na sebe, gradují, takže ve finále navozuje kniha dojem spíše povídky než básnické práce ve formátu znělky. Houby mají k Lovecraftově próze blíž, než by se mohlo navenek zdát. Kniha vychází dvojjazyčně, každou báseň doprovází ilustrace Františka Štorma.

This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft's life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Highlights of this volume include: Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu Pickman's Model The Colour out of Space The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing on the Doorstep The Shadow out of Time The Haunter of the Dark

Hercule Poirot made his first public appearance in 1920 at the age, one guesses, of about 60. He finally breathed his metaphorical last in 1975 at the age of maybe 75 or 80. And in that short span of time - either 55 years or about 20, depending on how you count it - Poirot became one of England's most profitable and ubiquitous export commodities. But it's very clear that his creator, Agatha Christie, did not at first intend for it to go that way. She made a very definite attempt to end the Hercule Poirot saga in the mid-1920s, when his story consisted simply of three novels and 25 short stories. It is that first Hercule Poirot bibliography, the one Christie clearly intended to leave for posterity when she typed up the last few words of "The Crag in the Dolomites" sometime in 1924, that is presented in this collection.