Juan Romeros forvandling

Written by H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by Klaus K. Elmer

Efter en voldsom sprængning i en minegang under Kaktus-bjergene, afdækkes en ejendommelig bundløs skakt, hvis tilstedeværelse spreder frygt blandt minearbejderne. Natten derpå driver ukendte kræfter to minearbejdere ned i den mennesketomme mines mørklagte gange, hvor en underjordisk rædsel åbenbares for dem i al sin gru.
BAGGRUNDSOPLYSNIGER:
'The Transition of Juan Romero', der på dansk har fået titlen 'Juan Romeros forvandling', var egentlig tænkt som en illustrativ skriveøvelse, der var forbeholde en lukket kreds.
Novellen blev skrevet på mindre end en dag, den 16. november 1919. Det var Lovecrafts hensigt at demonstrere, hvilke muligheder, der lå i et ørkensceneri, der tidligere var blevet brugt i en novelle af professor Philip Bayaud McDonald, som Lovecraft beskrev som "...en kedelig fortælling".
Lovecraft tillod ikke at novellen blev publiceret i sin levetid, og i de fleste oversigter over hans samlede værker, er den da også udeladt. Det lader ikke til at han tillod nogen at læse novellen før kort før sin død, hvor Robert H. Barlow tiggede Lovecraft om at sende ham manuskriptet, så han kunne renskrive det.
'The Transition of Juan Romero' blev første gang offentliggjort af Arkham House i 1944 da de udgav novellesamlingen Marginalia.

• Language: Dansk
• Publisher: HN Publishing
• Release date: Aug 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9788793736115

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.