BOOK REVIEW, A fragile person, Lovecraft's craft still haunts: ALL EDITIONS

BOOK REVIEW, A fragile person, Lovecraft's craft still haunts ALL EDITIONS

Part of the answer is the fame that has attached to that first published story, "Herbert West - Reanimator," soon followed by such stories (mostly in the magazine Weird Tales) still familiar to appreciators of understated horror as "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dunwich Hor...

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Published in:Newsday
Main Author: DICK ADLER. CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The Chicago Tribune is a Tribune Co. newspaper
Format: Book Review
Language:English
Published: Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 03-03-2005
Edition:Combined editions
Subjects:
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips
Straub, Peter
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Summary:Part of the answer is the fame that has attached to that first published story, "Herbert West - Reanimator," soon followed by such stories (mostly in the magazine Weird Tales) still familiar to appreciators of understated horror as "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Horror at Red Hook." And just as Poe exerted a strong influence on the young [Howard Phillips Lovecraft], the dozens of stories Lovecraft wrote on his own or in collaboration have influenced the work of writers such as Robert Bloch ("Psycho") and Stephen King.