H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
Description
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.
Praise for H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
"...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..."
— Paste Magazine
