Xulhu - H. P. Lovecrafts Schriften des Grauens, Folge 8 (Ungekürzt)

Geschrieben von Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Jörg Kleudgen, Frank Roßnagel und 5 weiteren

Erzählt von Markus Pol

Ich stieß auf die Weltkarte in einem Reiseführer aus den 1970er-Jahren, und mir war auf Anhieb bewusst, dass sie dort nicht hineingehörte. Vermutlich hätte ich sie nicht weiter beachtet, wäre da nicht diese Notiz am Rand gewesen. Und da, wo die Umrisse des afrikanischen Kontinents zu erkennen waren, stand ein weiteres rätselhaftes Wort: XULHU. Sechs unheimliche Geschichten entführen den Leser an verschiedene Orte kosmischen Grauens.

XULHU von Tobias Reckermann
LASST DIE PUPPEN ZU MIR KOMMEN! von Ian Delacroix (Let the Dolls Come to me, Übersetzung: Frank Roßnagel)
FRÜCHTE DER SÜDSEE von René Feldvoß
DAS GASTHAUS DER GÖTTER von Rainer Zuch
DER MEERESTEUFEL von Serhiy Krykun (The Sea-Devil, Übersetzung: Frank Roßnagel)
FOLGE MIR INS DUNKEL! von Jörg Kleudgen

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BLITZ-Verlag Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12. Feb. 2021
• ISBN: 9783990868614

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.

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