H.P.Lovecraft

Like most of my favourite authors, I stumbled upon H P Lovecraft by accident. I'd heard about him through reading about other horror authors and Lovecraft's name kept cropping up. I found one of his books in a car boot sale, and the rest -as they say - is history.

The stories that feature in this lovingly collected edition show the width and depth that was Howard Philips Lovecraft fantastical fiction. Why fantastical? Lovecraft managed to walk the knife edge between the genres of horror; fantasy and science-fiction like no other author.

Necronomicon, HP Lovecraft - A collection of Lovecrafts' tales from various books

Most are written in diary style and combined with the language of the 1920's makes it a bit hard to get involved in the story, but the author describes well the various horrors that are present in each tale - the living dead, hideous monsters, and creatures from places we cannot begin to imagine.