The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2014 • Liveright

  The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft edited by Leslie S Klinger FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2014] LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING Massive encyclopedia sized hardcover with embossed textured dust jacket in excellent condition. Light shelf wear to jacket and some rub wear to boards.  Pages are pristine and seemingly unread. Bram Stoker award nominee for best non-fiction, in this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.Over the course of his career, Lovecraft―"the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber)―made a marked departure from the gothic styl