Lovecraft's Legacy: An Anthology of Original Horror Tales in Honor of Lovecraft's Centennial

by Robert Weinberg, Ray Garton, Gene Wolfe, et al.

Book Overview

H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential modern horror writers. Lovecraft's fiction is a category unto itself. Eschewing the traditional werewolves, vampires, and ghosts of most horror fiction,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312850913
• ISBN13: 9780312850913
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very welcome addition to the HPL universe

Like all short story collections, this one has varying levels of quality. The average is so high, however, that it's well worth picking up if you're a fan of horror, mystical SF, or especially a Lovecraft fan. The stories show the influence of the Great Old Ones in Elizabethan England, the space program, the pine barrens of New Jersey and astral space in dreams. And, in the standout story of the book (H.P.L. by Gahan Wilson), Lovecraft appears as a character, as do Clark Ashton Smith and many, many, many bad things from his works. Of special interest to fans of Edgar Allan Poe is the first story in the collection, which ties the cosmology of Poe's stories together with Lovecraft's, repaying the obvious debt to Poe all writers of the macabre incurred since the 1800s. Buy this book.