H. P. Lovecraft: Cthulhus Ruf

Geschrieben von Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Erzählt von Nils Wittrock

Der Bestseller der Horrorliteratur!

In der Hinterlassenschaft Professor Angells finden sich drei zentrale Dokumente, die auf einen uralten, weltweiten Kult hindeuten. Der Protagonist versucht, diese auszuwerten, wenn auch sein wissenschaftlicher Hintergrund ihn davon abhält, der Existenz des Kultes und dessen übernatürlichen Auswirkungen Glauben zu schenken - wenn auch dieser Zweifel im Laufe seiner Nachforschungen schwinden.
Während wenigen Wochen fallen - weltweit - seltsame Alpträume, Selbstmorde und Ausbrüche von Massenmanien zusammen. Sie alle eint der Zusammenhang mit demselben geisterhaften Bild eines furchterregenden Dämonen. Je weiter die Nachforschungen gehen, desto mehr schwinden die Zweifel an der Existenz des Kultes und seiner Bedeutung.
Mit Cthulhus Ruf legt H. P. Lovecraft das Fundament für den Cthulhu Mythos, der seit hundert Jahren unzählige Leser in seinen Bann gezogen hat und der mittlerweile von zahlreichen Autoren weitergesponnen wurde. Von Lovecraft stammen mehrere Bestseller der Horrorliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Pretorian Media
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17. Okt. 2022
• ISBN: 9786197642483

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.