La strana casa nella nebbia

Scritto da Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Narrato da Claudio Carini

“Il Grande Abisso è popolato da strane entità e il cercatore di sogni deve fare molta attenzione a non invocare ed incontrare quelle sbagliate.”
Scritto nel 1926 e pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1931 sulla rivista Weird Tales, The Strange High House in the Mist, è un racconto breve con il quale Lovecraft ci riporta nel suo immaginario New England, popolato di visioni oniriche. Arrivato a Kingsport con la famiglia, il filosofo Thomas Olney è attratto da un'antica casa grigia, apparentemente irraggiungibile, costruita sopra un picco a strapiombo sul mare e costantemente avvolta dalla nebbia.
“…Il Terribile Vecchio (…) era sicuro che l’uomo sceso dalla scogliera non fosse più l’uomo che vi era salito e che, da qualche parte, sotto il grigio tetto di quella casa o nelle insondabili profondità di quelle bianche e misteriose nebbie, ancora vagasse lo spirito errabondo di colui che un tempo era stato Thomas Olney”.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Recitar Leggendo Audiolibri
• Data di uscita: 20 nov 2019
• ISBN: 9788889352991

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.

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Il racconto è una perfetta rappresentazione del "mondo" di Lovecraft; lettura molto buona, a volte meno colorita e ritmata di quanto vorrebbe rappresentare