The Dreams In The Witch House And Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics)
โ Scribed by Lovecraft, Howard Phillips
- Book ID
- 109140909
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 375 KB
- Series
- Penguin Classics
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781440618741
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University's infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred's dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. The Dreams in the Witch House, gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers.
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Overview: Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s.
Twelve stories deal with a young woman who decides to break with her smug fiance, a suicide inquest, a woman who murders her husband, a greedy merchant, a declining family of landowners, and a tactless host