Annotated Edition

Edition. Foreword and notes: Leslie S. Klinger
Introduction: Alan Moore

Despite the fact that Lovecraft's work was ignored by the public and reviled by critics after his death, he had an unprecedented recognition later, being recognized a century after his birth as the author who laid the foundations for the horror stories and American science fiction, becoming a source of "incalculable influence on successive generations of writers of scary fiction stories" In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger gives Lovecraft new life with clarity and retrospective vision, and traces the progressive recognition of a writer whose rediscovery and recovery within the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Bringing together existing documented studies with his own views, Klinger notes Lovecraft's striking work and his Kafkaesque life by providing context and revealing many of the secrets that have often motivated Lovecraft's style to be defined as cryptic.