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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: ; August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he spent most of his life there, and his fiction was primarily set against a New England backdrop. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor, and he subsisted in progressively strained circumstances in his last years. He died of cancer at the age of 46.

Lovecraft was virtually unknown during his lifetime and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of weird and horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales are The Rats in the Walls, The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time. His writings were the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of pastiches, games, music and other media drawing on Lovecraft's characters, setting and themes, constituting a wider body of work known as Lovecraftian horror.

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Cthulhu kalder. Fortællinger 1926-28

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) er amerikansk horrorlitteraturs største navn mellem Edgar Allan Poe og Stephen King. I sin levetid opnåede han kun meget begrænset udbredelse, men senere har hans særegne, intense skrivestil og ofte kontroversielle verdensbillede fået kolossal indflydelse inden for både litteratur fra Stephen King til Michel Houellebecq, film, tegneserier, rollespil, computerspil og musik fra Metallica til Deadmou5. Dette bind indleder den første danske oversættelse af Lovecrafts samlede fortællinger, hvoraf hovedparten aldrig tidligere har været tilgængelige på dansk, og dækker hans afgørende midterperiode fra 1926-28. Det er her, han for alvor begynder at udvikle sin egen uhyggelige version af det nordøstlige USA med ældgamle byer, dunkle skove og endnu ældre bjerge, og ikke mindst i signaturfortællingen ”Cthulhu kalder” udfolder sin vision af en parallelverden fuld af nådesløse væsener fra fremmede kloder og dimensioner. De har været her længe før menneskene og vil også være her længe efter. Imens holder de sig skjult på afsides, dybe steder og drømmer …
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