biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif ) was written, and of his final death or disappearance ( 738 A. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia – the Roba el Khaliyeh or “Empty Space” of the ancients – and “Dahna” or “Crimson” desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Since his untimely death, he has be acknowledged as a master of fantasy fiction, and a mainstream American writer second only to Edgar Allan Poe, while his relatively small body of work has influenced countless imitators and formed the basis of a world-wide industry of books, games and movies based on his concepts.Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.

A life-long resident of Providence, R.I., many of his tales are set in the fear-haunted towns of an imaginary area of Massachusetts, or in the cosmic vistas that exist beyond space and time. Review Quotes Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me-STEPHEN KING Preposterous, overblown, absurd in every way - yet with an originality that looks more powerful and convincing each time I dip into it.-PHILIP PULLMAN You need to read him - hes where the darkness starts-NEIL GAIMAN About the Author Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is probably the most important and influential author of supernatural fiction of the 20th century. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecrafts fiction, as well as being a must-buy for those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive, highly attractive volume. This handsome tome collects together the very best of Lovecrafts tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were originally published. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. Lovecrafts tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 30s. Lovecrafts reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect.

About the Book A collection of 36 horror tales by the early twentieth-century writer H.P.

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