La casa stregata
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Acquistalo
In Libreria
Sinossi
A cura di Gianni Pilo
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La casa stregata, forse l’opera più celebre del maestro dell’horror, fu ispirata a Lovecraft da una casa realmente esistente, «maledetta o nutrita di cadaveri», a Providence.
Antichi orrori che si risvegliano, aure demoniache, il soprannaturale che opprime la vita quotidiana: sono questi i temi che Lovecraft padroneggia come nessun altro. E sono i temi anche del celebre L’orrore a Red Hook: la precisione con cui riporta alcune formule usate durante rituali esoterici ha convinto molti che lo scrittore fosse un affiliato di una setta occulta. Verità o ennesima leggenda fiorita intorno al mito del genio di Providence? Quello che è certo è che queste due gemme oscure della letteratura dell’incubo risplendono nelle tenebre, sposano la narrativa all’angoscia, sussurrano all’animo umano le sue paure più oscure.
- ISBN: 8822776070
- Casa Editrice: Newton Compton
- Pagine: 128
- Data di uscita: 01-03-2024
Recensioni
Written in October of 1924, "The Shunned House" is not only Lovecraft's best early novella but also one of the two watershed works which mark his transition to the themes and style of his mature period. As such, it is not only a pleasure to read but also an important work for anyone who is intereste Leggi tutto
This novelette was written by the young H.P. Lovecraft around the same time as The Rats in the Walls (1924), and published, likewise, in an issue of Weird Tales . There is a significant similarity of inspiration between these two tales: here too, there is a decrepit old house, foul smells, obscene fu Leggi tutto
Welcome to the Shunned House! GHOSTBUSTERS - NEW ENGLAND STYLE 135 Benefit Street. Providence, Rhode Island. It’s a real house that you can find even nowdays (2017) at the said address, and it’s the scenario of this really spooky tale, that H.P. Lovecraft knew well since his aunt lived there f
In this story you will do some research together with the first person narrator why the dilapidated house in Benefit Street is shunned and regarded as uncanny. You will hear everything about the families who lived there, come to know, that Poe walked by this house and in the second section of this l Leggi tutto
This is hard book to review, it was basically the history of one house that was deemed to be haunted. It's only 48 pages long so it's a quick book to read and what I would describe as quiet horror, more about the atmosphere than anything else. My first Lovecraft as I wasn't blown away. If you listen Leggi tutto
Errrr ... yep okay this one is weird. At first it just seemed like another eerie, atmospheric tale about a spooky old house, but then there was the conjecture about what was causing this house to be so evil and ... well, let's just say that it won me over in the end. It took its time getting to th
Our MC and his very old antiquarian uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, want to find out what is wrong with the shunned house, an abandoned house on Benefit Street with a high body count. I felt like they went too unprepared into this mess, considering his uncle was well read regarding this topic (and not just Leggi tutto
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