H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

by Michel Houellebecq, Stephen King (Introduction)

Overview

The award-winning French novelist pays tribute to a literary hero in this critical biography of the master of horror—with a foreword by Stephen King.

Best known for his acclaimed novels, such as the Prix Goncourt-winning The Map and the Territory, Michael Houellebecq devotes his single work of nonfiction to the pioneering author of horror and weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft. In a volume that is part biographical sketch and part pronouncement on existence and literature, France's most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego, whose style couldn't be less like his own.

With a foreword by Lovecraft admirer Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is an insightful introduction to both Lovecraft’s dark mythology and Houellebecq’s deadpan prose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683359746
Publisher:	ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	403,473
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Michel Houellebecq is a French author, poet and filmmaker whose work exposes his humorous yet misanthropic view on humanity. He is known as one of the best and most-loved French novelists. Stephen King is the best-selling American novelist known for horror hits including Carrie, The Shining, and It.

Editorial Reviews

Michel Houellebecq, author of the controversial novel Platform (2003), pays tribute to H.P. Lovecraft in his extended 1991 essay, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, translated from the French by Dorna Khazeni. In his introduction, Stephen King tells of an idea for a story he never wrote inspired by the Providence Gentleman. The book also reprints two Lovecraft stories, "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Whisperer in the Dark." Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

"...publisher SelfMadeHero collected four of Culbard’s Lovecraft adaptations—The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At The Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time—into one handsome oversized volume, which makes an equally splendid gift to the Lovecraft devotee in your life..."

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