Another excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, tha...(展开全部)

H.P.洛夫克拉夫特（H. P. Lovecraft），美国著名恐怖、奇幻和科幻小说大师。洛夫克拉夫特的一生坎坷多难，1890年出生于美国，自幼体弱多病，又逢家庭破产，导致精神崩溃无法完成学业，父母的精神都出现失常，亲人的相继离世给他带来巨大打击，46岁时死于癌症。 洛 夫克拉夫特从小便展示出了惊人的文学天赋，他3岁时能够背诵诗歌，6岁时能够写作诗篇，7岁完成了小说《小玻璃瓶》。在短暂的一生中，洛夫克拉夫特创作了近80篇小说，开创了“克苏鲁神话体系”，但是在痛苦病逝之前，他没有出版过一本作品集，几乎没有任何名气。死后洛夫克拉夫特获誉无数，对后世文化产生了不可估量的影响，与爱伦•坡、安布罗斯•比尔斯并称为“美国三大恐怖小说家”，斯蒂芬•金也赞誉洛夫克拉夫特是“20世纪最伟大的作家”。代表作品有《克苏鲁的呼唤》《疯狂山脉》《敦威治恐怖事件》《异星之彩》等...(展开全部)

The visionary master of cosmic horror joins The Library of America with this collection of classic stories of the strange and fantastic.

The visionary master of cosmic horror joins The Library of America with this collection of classic stories of the strange and fantastic.

'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.' In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houellebecq, the controversial and bestselling author of ATOMISED, focuses his cons...(展开全部)

Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft Part biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever published by the author. Here...(展开全部)

Review "We are, perhaps, after a century of literary wastelands, able to read not only a personal predicament but a general truth in Melville's blasted islands, bedevilled slave ships, misshapen houses, falling towers, ticking tables, ghastly factories, sickly cottages, and blank brick city walls. The appetite for truth is what gives Melville's narratives their persistent inter...(展开全部)

米歇尔•维勒贝克，法国小说家、诗人、电影导演。凭借《基本粒子》崭露头角，销量在法国超过40万册，而《地图与疆域》使他斩获法国文学最高奖项——龚古尔文学奖。如今他已是世界最重要的作家之一，被誉为继加缪之后最重要的法国作家，也是最诚实质问生存意义的思想家。他的作品“独一无二地反映了时代精神”，被翻译成数十种语言于全球发行。

Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small.

Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small.