Lovecraft, master of terror, joins the Pléiade

Lovecraft, master of terror, joins the Pléiade
Lovecraft, master of terror, joins the Pléiade

Published on November 17, 2024 at 3:37 p.m. / Modified on November 17, 2024 at 4:46 p.m.

During his lifetime, he did not manage to publish a single book. Editors considered his stories too “morbid.” He published them in cheap and commercial magazines for adolescents, today called “pulps”, namely mainly Weird Tales. He was considered a Z series author. Since his death, however, the influence of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) has continued to grow: it is found everywhere in popular culture, whether literature, cinema, comics, video games or role-playing games… It enters the Pléiade this fall, in an edition directed by Philippe Jaworski.

Read also: Lovecraft’s Metamorphoses

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