The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

These days there's a bazillion editions of Lovecraft's works in print. There's only a couple of them that we find remarkable enough to sell through our store and this new edition is one of them.  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. Volume 1 features nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations spanning over 850 pages. Volume 2 - Beyond Arkham - reanimates twenty-five additional stories, the balance of Lovecr