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Paperback. Very Good.

San Francisco: Believer Books, 2005. First English edition, Trade paperback, Fine,. Sam Potts. San Francisco: Believer Books:, 2005. First English edition, Trade paperback, Fine, 243 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Sam Potts An as new copy. Includes a long introduction by Stephen King. King's blurb is, no doubt, better than any I can offer: "Michel Houellebecq's essay H.P. LOVECRAFT: AGAINST THE WORLD, AGAINST LIFE is a remarkable blending of critical insight, fierce partisanship, and sympathetic biography - a kind of scholarly love letter, maybe even the world's first truly cerebral mash note. The question is whether or not the subject rates such a rich and unexpected burst of creativity in what is ordinarily a dull-as-ditchwater, footnote-riddled field of work. Does this long-dead, pulp-magazine Johnson deserve such a Boswell? Houellebecq argues that H.P. Lovecraft does, that he matters a great deal even in the twenty-first century. As it happens, I think he could not be more… Read More

London, U.K.: GOLLANCZ, 2008. Book. As New. Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback - 1st. Edition, 2nd. Print - As New - Part biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever published by the author. Here, France's most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego's style, which couldn't be less like his own. With a foreword by Lovecraft admirer Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is an insightful introduction to both Lovecraft's dark mythology and Houellebecq's deadpan prose. Includes 2 Lovecraft tales, "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Call of Cthulhu"....

Orion Publishing Co, 2008. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 7.72x5.08x0.71 inches.

Siruela, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.