The Folio Society Publishes Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories"
The birth of the modern horror story can be traced to the dark visions that crept from the febrile imagination of H. P. Lovecraft at the beginning of the last century.
This new edition from The Folio Society marries Lovecraft’s best-known fiction with two modern masters of the macabre, the acclaimed artist Dan Hillier and author Alan Moore. In his beautifully crafted new preface, Moore finds Lovecraft at once at odds with and integral to the time in which he lived, ‘the improbable embodiment of an estranged world in transition’ yet, despite his prejudices and parochialisms, he ‘possessed a voice and a perspective both unique in modern literature’.
Also available as a 750 copy limited edition in a presentation box with a print signed by the artist each edition shimmers with Lovecraft’s ‘unknown colours’, purple and greens akin to both the ocean depths and mysteries from outer space - each features a mystical design by Hillier.
This collection spans Lovecraft’s literary career, his ‘cosmicist’ philosophy and the belief that behind the veil of our blinkered everyday lives lies another reality, too terrible for the human mind to comprehend. Writing in the gothic tradition, narrators recount their descent into madness and despair. Through their investigations into the unexplained, they tug at the thin threads that separate our world from another of indescribable horror. The alien gods, death cults and forbidden tomes that cast their maddening shadows over of his fictitious New England would introduce the world to a new set of terrors, reflecting the strange, uncaring universe being unraveled by physics and cosmology. These ‘weird’ tales, and their vast influence, have since carved their creator a tentacle-shaped throne among the monoliths of American literature.
Product information
Bound in cloth blocked with a design by the artist. Set in Italian Old Style with Goudy Forum as display. 472 pages. Title page spread plus 6 black and white illustrations. Endpapers spot varnished with a design by the artist. Gold gilt page tops. Printed metallic slipcase. 10”x 6 3??4“
UK £75.00 US $120.00 Can $155.00 Aus $155.00
Limited Edition is bound in eco simulated leather blocked with a design by the artist. Set in Italian Old Style with Goudy Forum as display. 472 pages. Title page spread plus 6 black and white illustrations printed with 8 black and gold mandalas on the reverse. Hand-marbled endpapers. Coloured edges. Magnetic presentation box covered in blocked cloth and lined in blocked metallic paper. Limited print signed by the artist. Book 10"x 63??4“, box 121??4" x 91??2" x 2".
UK £345.00 US $575.00 Can $695.00 Aus $695.00
