Name: A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 2)
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Author: Lovecraft, H. P. ; Howard, Robert E. ; Joshi, S. T.
ISBN: 9781614981879

portada A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 2)

Type

Physical Book

Author

H. P. Lovecraft

Illustrated by

S. T. Joshi

Publisher

Hippocampus Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9781614981879

Synopsis "A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 2)"

In the second volume of the letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the two authors continue their wide-ranging discussion of such central issues as the relative value of barbarism and civilization, the virtues of the frontier and of settled city life, and other related issues. Lovecraft regales Howard with his extensive travels up and down the eastern seaboard, including trips to Quebec, Florida, and obscure corners of New England, while Howard writes engagingly of his own travels through the lonely stretches of Texas. Each has great praise for the other's writings in Weird Tales and elsewhere, and each conducts searching discussions of literature, philosophy, politics, and economics in the wake of the depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt's election. World affairs, including the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, also engage their attention. All letters are exhaustively annotated by the editors, and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography of both writers as well as the publication of a few letters to Lovecraft from Robert E. Howard's father, Dr. I. M. Howard, in the wake of his son's tragic and unexpected suicide.

H. P. Lovecraft

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Providence, 20 de agosto de 1890-Providence, 15 de marzo de 1937) más conocido como H. P. Lovecraft, fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de relatos y novelas de terror y ciencia ficción.

Se le considera un gran innovador del cuento de terror, al que aportó una mitología propia —los Mitos de Cthulhu—, desarrollada en colaboración con otros autores, actualmente en vigencia.

Su obra constituye un clásico del horror cósmico, una línea narrativa que se aparta de las tradicionales historias de terror sobrenatural —satanismo, fantasmas—, incluyendo elementos de ciencia ficción como, por ejemplo, razas alienígenas, viajes en el tiempo o existencia de otras dimensiones.

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