The places of Lovecraft – ed. paperback

The places of Lovecraft - ed. paperback

Want to eat good seafood in Innsmouth? Dreaming of planning your honeymoon in the Mountains of Madness? Would you like to taste a typical recipe from the Lands of Dreams?

The first authentic illustrated travel guide of Lovecraftian places tries to answer these and many other questions, created with the most basic needs of the unwary traveler in mind.

From Arkham to Dunwich, from R'lyeh to the dreamlike Celephais, Lovecraft's places reveal itself on every page as a semi-serious vintage Lonely Planet, ready to take you on a journey into the most unmentionable abyss invented by the Providence visionary.

Created with philological precision inspired by the tourist guides of the early 1900s, richly illustrated, complete with maps, recipes, useful advice and a precious little dictionary essential for communicating with the natives, it will be the inseparable companion on your next trip. Probably the last.

A journey through the most remote corners of the Lovecraftian imagination told during his boundless editorial production, from the beginnings through the stories of the Necronomicon up to the myths of Cthulhu, thanks to which his refined style and his pantheon of monstrous deities were erected as an example for future generations of horror writers.

A story, that of Howard Phillips, which even 80 years after his death, becomes a myth like his stories: his contribution to genre literature becomes fundamental, probably decisive, and is grafted into the tradition of the greatest writers of the history, for having given voice and substance to the indefinite, to the "cosmic", for having given horror a terrifying transcendental and metaphysical dimension, impalpable and at the same time almost hypnotic and which in the past had only been sketched out by Edgar's experience Allan Poe.

One of the best-selling volumes in the Edizioni NPE catalog is back in a paperback and economic edition.

The following have collaborated in the creation of the volume: Andrea Meucci, Federico Guerri, Enrico Panzi, Mehdi Ben Temime, Simona Sammicheli, Gabriele Genini, Gabriele Masi.