<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft</b></p>Part biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's <i>H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life</i>, was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever published by the author.<br /> Here, France's most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego's style, which couldn't be less like his own.<br /> With a foreword by Lovecraft admirer Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is an insightful introduction to both Lovecraft's dark mythology and Houellebecq's deadpan prose.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>..".publisher SelfMadeHero collected four of Culbard's Lovecraft adaptations--<i>The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath</i>, <i>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</i>, <i>At The Mountains of Madness</i> and <i>The Shadow Out of Time</i>--into one handsome oversized volume, which makes an equally splendid gift to the Lovecraft devotee in your life..."</p>--Paste Magazine<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Michel Houellebecq</b> is a French author, poet and filmmaker whose work exposes his humorous yet misanthropic view on humanity. He is known as one of the best and most-loved French novelists.<br /><b>Stephen King</b> is the best-selling American novelist known for horror hits including <i>Carrie</i>, <i>The Shining</i>, and <i>It.</i>
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