La Malédiction de Sarnath: La collection HP Lovecraft

Écrit par H.P. Lovecraft

Raconté par Patrick Blandin

Selon le conte, il y a plus de 10 000 ans, une race de bergers colonisa les rives de la rivière Ai, dans un pays appelé Mnar, formant les villes de Thraa, Ilarnek et Kadatheron (à ne pas confondre avec Kadath ), qui atteint de grandes prouesses intellectuelles et commerciales . Désireux de plus de terres, un groupe de ces personnes robustes a migré vers les rives d'un vaste lac solitaire au cœur de Mnar, fondant la ville de Sarnath. Mais les colons n'étaient pas seuls. Non loin de Sarnath se trouvait l'ancienne ville de pierre grise d'Ib, habitée par une race bizarre descendue de la lune. Lovecraft les a décrits comme "d'une teinte aussi verte que le lac et les brumes qui s'élèvent au-dessus de lui ... Ils avaient les yeux exorbités, la moue, les lèvres flasques et les oreilles curieuses, et étaient sans voix". Ces êtres adoraient un dieu étrange connu sous le nom de Bokrug , le grand lézard des eaux , bien que ce soit davantage leur forme physique qui ait poussé les habitants de Sarnath à les mépriser.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Compagnie Du Savoir
• Date de sortie: 9 sept. 2022
• ISBN: 9782821188068

H.P. 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.