Erindringer om Dr. Samuel Johnson

Written by H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by Klaus K. Elmer

Han har levet et langt og begivenhedsrigt liv. Han har færdedes i prominente kredse, mellem baroner og kongelige. Men tiden går. Dem han holdt af er for længst døde. Nu lever han på minderne fra en svunden tid, en tid han aldrig burde have oplevet. Alene med sine minder, sætter han sig ved sit skrivebord, griber pennen og nedskriver sine.... 'Erindringer om Dr. Samuel Johnson'.
Denne novelle af H.P. Lovecraft er meget forskellig fra hans mere kendte værker. Der er ingen gys, ingen horror og kun et svagt anstrøg af noget overnaturligt. Ikke desto mindre bør 'Erindringer om Dr. Samuel Johnson' medtages, såfremt kronologien i hans samlede værker skal bevares. Lovecraft skrev denne novelle, som et selvironisk svar til de kritikere, som hævdede at hans sprog var gammeldags og umoderne. Af samme grund valgte Lovecraft en skrivestil og et sprog, der førte læseren tilbage til 1700-tallets England. Det har været en udfordring ud over det normale, at oversætte denne novelle til dansk (hvilket måske er en af grundene til, at det ikke er blevet gjort før nu). Vi har forsøgt at føre vores danske læsere tilbage i tiden ved at genindføre aa i stedet for å og skrive alle navneord med stort begyndelsesbogstav. Vi har dog valgt at bibeholde den moderne stavemåde, da vi ellers frygtede for, at novellen ville blive ulæselig. HN Publishing er stolet over at kunne præsentere resultatet for vores læsere, og vi håber at vores udelte begejstring også vil smitte bare en lille smule af på jer.
'Erindringer om Dr. Samuel Johnson' er det sidste værk H.P. Lovecraft færdiggjorde i 1917. Sammen med 'Graven' og 'Dagon', udgør disse tre noveller Lovecraft's samlede værker fra 1917.

• Language: Dansk
• Publisher: HN Publishing
• Release date: Oct 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9788793736030

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.