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The Dream Cycle
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Lovecraft's dream fantasy works are as terrifying and haunting as his tales of horror and the macabre. A master craftsman, Lovecraft brings compelling visions of nightmarish fear, invisible worlds and the demons of the unconscious. If one author truly represents the very best in American literary horror, it is H. P. Lovecraft. --John Carpenter, Director of At the Mouth of Madness, Halloween, and Christine.
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H. P. Lovecraft
Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Probably most popular for the Randolph Carter pseudo-series, excluding the seemingly non-canonical "The Unnamable".
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dream cycle of H.P. Lovecraft is one out of three books containing all of Lovecrafts work. This, i believe, is the second volume in the trilogy. This volume focuses on all of Lovecrafts fantasy or dream based stories or even just his stories that are really surreal. Currently i am in the middle of the novella "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath". up until now i have enjoyed all of the stories (although some are hard to understand because they take place in the dream land). i would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Lovecrafts work or anyone who really cares about horror because Lovecraft was one of the revolutionary horror writers of all time. i wouldn't recommend it, however, as the introductory to Lovecrafts work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I wanted to respond in brief to some few of your own comments. Lovecraft's Antisemitism was directed at the Jewish race as it manifested itself in Urban communities--Lovecraft often complains of the "packs" of non-whites he encountered. But he set this bigotry aside in the cases of individuals whom he met or with whom he corresponded. Sonia was a beautiful, vibrant woman and she swept Lovecraft off his feet. They were deeply in love, but the marriage was destroyed, as Sonia wrote in a letter to Samuel Loveman, by HPL's hatred of the Jewish race, which was manifested in Lovecraft's perpetual harping of to his long-suffering wife. Most of the notorious racists whom I know will have absolutely nothing to do with the racists they abhor--nothing; and so in this Lovecraft's racism was singular in nature. He was raised in a racist household, by a mother and aunts who applauded the poem he wrote when he was very young, "On the Creation of Niggers." He wrote that poem to entertain his family and get acceptance from them, and they rewarded him for it. Porius: there is absolutely no indication that HPL ever came to "accept the dreaded asiatic horde"--just the opposite.NoirSeanF: I doubt that this collection is "most popular for the Randolph Carter pseudo-series," which form a very minor facet of Lovecraft's impressive oeuvre. I would judge "Pickman's Model," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," and "The Dreams in the Witch House" as the really well-known and most-referenced tales in the book. "The Statement of Randolph Carter" is indeed very well known, and has the distinction of being one of the most widely filmed of Lovecraft's tales--numerous versions of it have been shewn at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. I love coming to Library Thing and reading all of your views on Lovecraft. Thanks for all of the activity, and keep reading Lovecraft!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I always find Lovecraft to be a mixed bag. Some of the stories were meh, and yet others verged on unbearable. However, others were wonderful. In particular, I enjoyed the fragment "The Thing in the Moonlight", the short story "The Cats of Ulthar", and the long story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." Be advised that your cats may make you slightly nervous upon reading some of his stories.Ultimately, I think he created a magnificent universe, but his writing wasn't actually that good. Couple that with the racism in his work, and you're better off reading a modern writer creating works based on his.
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