Celui qui venait d'ailleurs: La collection HP Lovecraft

Écrit par Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Raconté par Jacques Hadjaje

Nouvelle fantastique publiée pour la première fois en avril 1926 dans le magazine Weird Tales et rédigée cette œuvre entre mars et août 1921. Le récit raconte l'histoire d'un personnage mystérieux qui vit complètement seul et isolé : dans son désir de rentrer en contact avec ses semblables, il tente avec succès de gravir une longue et obscure galerie. Cette nouvelle combine des éléments de fantastique et d'horreur dans une atmosphère cauchemardesque. Elle est par ailleurs l'un des rares travaux de Lovecraft à être principalement construits autour des émotions humaines.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Compagnie Du Savoir
• Date de sortie: 9 sept. 2022
• ISBN: 9782821188242

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.