Name: lovecraft´s new york circle,the kalem club, 1924-1927
Price: 18.61 GBP
Availability: InStock
Author: Hart, Mara Kirk ; Joshi, S. T. ; Lovecraft, H. P.
ISBN: 9780976159292

portada lovecraft´s new york circle,the kalem club, 1924-1927

Type

Physical Book

Contributions by

Illustrated by

Publisher

Author

Hart, Mara Kirk ; Joshi, S. T. ; Lovecraft, H. P.

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN

0976159295

ISBN13

9780976159292

Synopsis "lovecraft´s new york circle,the kalem club, 1924-1927"

The Kalem Club was one of the great literary partnerships in American literature. Taking shape even before H. P. Lovecraft arrived in Brooklyn in 1924, the group featured some of the most distinctive figures of their day: George Kirk, genial bookseller and collector; Rheinhart Kleiner, a worldly versifier and man about town; Samuel Loveman, exquisitely refined poet and friend of Hart Crane; James F. Morton, devotee of freethought, the single tax, and Esperanto; Everett McNeill, prolific writer of historical novels for boys; Frank Belknap Long, poet, aesthete, and writer of weird fiction; and, of course, H. P. Lovecraft, on the threshold of becoming the 20th-century Poe. As chronicled in largely unpublished letters by George Kirk to his fiancée, the Kalem Club comes alive as never before--gathering for weekly sessions, taking long, leisurely strolls throughout the New York area, and sharing their works-in-progress. In the second half of this book, an abundance of writings by the Kalems--poems, essays, excerpts from treatises and novels--allows readers to grasp at first hand why the Kalem Club has left an indelible mark upon the literature of its time. Lovecraft's New York Circle has been compiled by Mara Kirk Hart, daughter of George Kirk and a longtime student of Lovecraft and the Kalem Club, and by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on Lovecraft.

H. P. Lovecraft

(Contributions by)

View Author's Page

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.

See less