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Upon his untimely death, H.P. Lovecraft, the early twentieth-century master of ¿weird fiction,¿ left behind descriptions of 221 unwritten stories. Some were only a few ambiguous words long, others were complete plot outlines, and all of them died with their author.Now, 70 years later, writers from all over the country have come together to bring these untold stories to life. The only requirement for the writers¿to create a piece that fulfilled every part of Lovecraft¿s original vision. The results are as varied as the artists behind them. Inside this book waits horror, science fiction, comedy, memoir, experimental text art, and one extremely short novel.Some of these stories will take away your worries. Others will take away your sleep. And a few will take you to another world, a world where weird fiction still lives, and the way home may prove difficult to find indeed¿… (más)
I bought this to support the producers of Welcome to Night Vale. It’s based off of a list of story ideas from H.P. Lovecraft, some more detailed than others; the entire list is reproduced at the end with charming indifference to the complicated copyright issues that arise from unpublished material of this sort (but then Lovecraft copyrights are as tangled as Cthulhu’s tentacles). The stories are not as good as Night Vale, though there are a couple of gems (Meg Bashwiner: “The heat is tortuous but we will miss it when it’s gone…. Suburban dogs bark in the distance. They would drink blood if I wrote them to.”) I’m probably more interested in the concept than in this execution. One of Night Vale’s producers said that he hated Lovecraft as a writer and as a racist person: “That said, I think he was brilliant on an idea level, and that's definitely where we connect with him. Our Lovecraft book, for me, is a way of leaving behind all vestiges of his writing, including the stupid names of his gods, while keeping the brilliance of his unnerving ideas and images.” ( )
Upon his untimely death, H.P. Lovecraft, the early twentieth-century master of ¿weird fiction,¿ left behind descriptions of 221 unwritten stories. Some were only a few ambiguous words long, others were complete plot outlines, and all of them died with their author.Now, 70 years later, writers from all over the country have come together to bring these untold stories to life. The only requirement for the writers¿to create a piece that fulfilled every part of Lovecraft¿s original vision. The results are as varied as the artists behind them. Inside this book waits horror, science fiction, comedy, memoir, experimental text art, and one extremely short novel.Some of these stories will take away your worries. Others will take away your sleep. And a few will take you to another world, a world where weird fiction still lives, and the way home may prove difficult to find indeed¿
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