Will I love The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft?

I first read H. P. Lovecraft as a teenager, and was immediately haunted by his work.

In particular, his use of landscape - the woods and hills of his native New England left an indelible impression on me. In stories like 'The Colour Out of Space' and 'The Dunwich Horror', the landscape is itself a character. Now that I am working on a Lovecraft-related project (a documentary film), I thought it was high time to reread him, and was struck by how good the stories are. In particular, early stories like 'From Beyond' and 'Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn… show more.

Perhaps my favorite author of all time is Edgar Allan Poe, but HP Lovecraft is certainly within the running of my top five, perhaps three. His fiction is predicated upon the idea that we understand very little about the nature of reality and are ourselves rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

This notion in and of itself is rather humbling and petrifying. Not to mention the fact that Lovecraft’s work is downright cool, rife with slime, tentacles, and other unknown and indescribable horrors from beyond the cosmic veil of outer space…and beneath the ocean, which is without a… show more.

As a fan of cosmic horror, I was, of course, familiar with H.P. Lovecraft’s unique flavor of insanity-inducing fiction. It wasn’t until this year that I managed to get my hands on his complete body of work.

“The Complete Fiction” bundles nearly 100 short tales of hair-raising horror, spanning mysterious civilizations, dangerous cults, and alien creatures that defy imagination.

Lovecraft’s vision of an infinitely abysmal universe has even inspired the fantasy book I’m writing right now, especially the tale known as Dagon. Another favorite of mine was The Shadow over Innsmouth, where I first became acquainted with the… show more.