The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft 1936 With Dust Jacket 1st Ed Rare
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth Written by H.P. Lovecraft
Published by: Visionary Publishing Co. Printed in: 1936 ----- Features ----- · White lettering on the spine and front cover · Four Black and White illustrations · Comes with rare Original Jacket! · Comes wit...h rare Errata Sheet
Condition This book is in very good condition. There are no bookplates, signatures, or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of any foxing. All four original black and white illustrations are present and in good condition. This is Lovecraft's first published book and only 400 copies were printed (of which only an estimated 200 copies were bound with the rest being destroyed). The book comes with its original dust jacket and errata sheet. The Jacket is in very good condition. This is the First edition, printed by Visionary Publishing Company in 1936. A rare find in this condition. Synopsis The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November–December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical.The story describes a young man's discovery of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and a frog, that dwell in Innsmouth – a coastal town that had seen better days – and the waters offshore. The townspeople worship Dagon, a Philistine deity incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos. ---------- About the Author---------- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult followingfor his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christian humanism.Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grownover the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.
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