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Nueva edici n corregida, nueva tipograf a, nuevo formato.Dice Lovecraft: "Todas mis historias, aunque sin relaci n entre si, est n basadas en la creencia o leyenda de que este mundo estuvo habitado por otra raza que, por practicar la magia negra, perdi su lugar y fue expulsada, pero todav a vive en el exterior dispuesta a tomar posesi n de esta tierra" H.P. LOVECRAFTEn este libro de 512 p ginas una selecci n de lo mejor de Lovecraft. Contiene las siguientes historias: EL MODELO DE PICKMAN, LA TUMBA, LA CASA ENCANTADA, ARTHUR JERMYN, LOS SUE OS EN LA CASA DE LA BRUJA, EN LAS MONTA AS DE LA LOCURA, EN LA CRIPTA, EL HORROR DE DUNWICH, EL CASO DE CHARLES DEXTER WARD.Pero el espect culo fue peor de lo que hab a temido. Hay horrores que superan a todos los horrores imaginables, y aqu l era uno de ellos. De los hongos brotaba un vapor amarillo y luminoso, que burbujeaba a una altura gigantesca en vagos perfiles medio humanos medio monstruosos, a trav s de los cuales pude ver el hogar y la chimenea. Era todo ojos -lobunos y burlones-, y la rugosa cabeza, parecida a la de un insecto, terminaba en una especie de niebla que remolineaba p tridamente a su alrededor y se desvanec a finalmente por la chimenea. Digo que vi aquella cosa, pero s lo he conseguido rastrear su condenable tentativa de forma a trav s de una consciente retrospecci n. En aquel momento no era para m m s que una nube fosforescente envolviendo y disolviendo en una horrible plasticidad al nico objeto en el cual estaba concentrada mi atenci n. Aquel objeto era mi t o, el venerable Elihu Whipple, cuyo rostro ennegrecido me miraba con una expresi n angustiada, como si quisiera advertirme contra el horror que hab a hecho presa en l. No comprendo c mo pude evitar el volverme loco. Creo que lo que me salv fue el hecho de que me hab a estado preparando f sica y espiritualmente para aquel instante crucial, y mis reacciones fueron una serie de movimientos reflejos. D ndome cuenta de que aquel maligno burbujeo no era una sustancia atacable con materias qu micas, ignor el lanzallamas que se ergu a a mi izquierda, puls el interruptor del tubo Crookes y lo enfoqu hacia aquella escena fantasmal. Se produjo una neblina azulada y un fren tico chisporroteo, y la fosforescencia amarilla disminuy en intensidad a mis ojos. Pero no tard en darme cuenta de que aquella disminuci n era s lo de contraste, y que las ondas de la m quina eran absolutamente ineficaces... Ya disponible la tercera selecci n. Buscar en el punto com.

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890 - 1937 H. P. Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother was Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft and his father was Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman for Gorham & Co. Silversmtihs. Lovecraft was reciting poetry at the age of two and when he was three years old, his father suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted to Butler Hospital. He spent five years there before dying on July 19, 1898 of paresis, a form of neurosyphillis. During those five years, Lovecraft was told that his father was paralyzed and in a coma, which was not the case.

His mother, two aunts and grandfather were now bringing up Lovecraft. He suffered from frequent illnesses as a boy, many of which were psychological. He began writing between the ages of six and seven and, at about the age of eight, he discovered science. He began to produce the hectographed journals, "The Scientific Gazette" (1899-1907) and "The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy" (1903-07). His first appearance in print happened, in 1906, when he wrote a letter on an astronomical matter to The Providence Sunday Journal. A short time later, he began writing a monthly astronomy column for The Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner - a rural paper. He also wrote columns for The Providence Tribune (1906-08), The Providence Evening News (1914-18), The Asheville (N.C.) Gazette-News (1915).

In 1904, his grandfather died and the family suffered severe financial difficulties, which forced him and his mother to move out of their Victorian home. Devastated by this, he apparently contemplated suicide. In 1908, before graduating from high school, he suffered a nervous breakdown. He didn't receive a diploma and failed to get into Brown University, both of which caused him great shame. Lovecraft was not heard from for five years, re-emerging because of a letter he wrote in protest to Fred Jackson's love story in The Argosy. His letter was published in 1913 and caused great controversy, which was noted by Edward F. Daas, President of the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA). Daas invited Lovecraft to join the UAPA, which he did in early 1914. He eventually became President and Official Editor of the UAPA and served briefly as President of the rival National Amateur Press Association (NAPA). He published thirteen issues of his own paper, The Conservative (1915-23) and contributed poetry and essays to other journals. He also wrote some fiction which titles include "The Beast in the Cave" (1905), "The Alchemist" (1908), "The Tomb" and "Dagon" (1917).

In 1919, Lovecraft's mother was deteriorating, mentally and physically, and was admitted to Butler Hospital. On May 24, 1921, his mother died from a gall bladder operation. While attending an amateur journalism convention in Boston, Lovecraft met his future wife Sonia Haft Greene, a Russian Jew. They were married on March 3, 1924 and Lovecraft moved to her apartment in Brooklyn. Sonia had a shop on Fifth Avenue that went bankrupt. In 1925, Sonia went to Cleveland for a job and Lovecraft moved to a smaller apartment in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. In 1926, he decided to move back to Providence. Lovecraft had his aunts bar his wife, Sonia, from going to Providence to start a business because he couldn't have the stigma of a tradeswoman wife. They were divorced in 1929.

After his return to Providence, he wrote his greatest fiction, which included the titles "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926), "At the Mountains of Madness" (1931), and "The Shadow Out of Time" (1934-35). In 1932, his aunt, Mrs. Clark, died; and he moved in with his other aunt, Mrs. Gamwell, in 1933. Suffering from cancer of the intestine, Lovecraft was admitted to Jane Brown Memorial Hospital and on March 15, 1937 he died.

(Bowker Author Biography)