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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos Broché – 1 août 2015

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Le célèbre érudit Lovecraftian S. T. Joshi est l'auteur d'une critique de la fiction Lovecraftian et Cthulhu Mythos, en commençant par les histoires de H.P. Lovecraft qui a donné naissance à des entités, des lieux, des livres et d'autres dispositifs de complot qui sont devenus connus sous le nom de mythe de Cthulhu. Joshi détaille plus en détail les œuvres d'August Derleth, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Donald Wandrei, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber et d'autres. Joshi expose ensuite le mythe de Derleth et son influence sur la fiction lovecraftienne ultérieure. Joshi explore ensuite de nouvelles générations d'écrivains Mythos et leur expansion respective du mythe de Cthulhu, y compris Richard L. Tierney, Gary Myers, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Walter C. DeBill Jr. et d'autres. Enfin, Joshi passe en revue certains des auteurs les plus modernes qui ont repris le manteau Lovecraftien: Jeffrey Thomas, Stanley C. Sargent, Wilum H. Pugmire, Thomas Ligotti, Joseph C. Pulver et bien d'autres.
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    414 pages
  2. Langue
    Anglais
  3. Éditeur
    Hippocampus Press
  4. Date de publication
    1 août 2015
  5. Dimensions
    15.24 x 2.16 x 22.86 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1614981353
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1614981350
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  • Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Hippocampus Press (1 août 2015)
  • Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
  • Broché ‏ : ‎ 414 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1614981353
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1614981350
  • Poids de l'article ‏ : ‎ 549 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.16 x 22.86 cm
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4,0 sur 5 étoiles Good Book
Commenté en Italie le 13 janvier 2013
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The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos è un libro abbastanza interessante, non mi è dispiaciuto legggerlo.
In ogni modo non mi ha entusiasmato e l'ho trovato un pò retorico.
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Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, Esq.
5,0 sur 5 étoiles THE GREATEST BOOK ON YE MYTHOS EVER WRITTEN!!!
Commenté aux États-Unis le 13 mars 2009
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As a professional Cthulhu Mythos author, I have an undying interest in this particular genre. Thirty years ago, Lin Carter's LOVECRAFT: A LOOK BEHIND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS got me hooked on reading and writing Mythos fiction. Carter's book was naive and filled with errors. Joshi's new book is intelligent and informed. He is extremely opinionated, and I disagree with him on some of what he writes, especially about Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" being an artistic failure. But for a clear, concise history and discussion of the Mythos as a literary genre, this book is fantastic -- the best of its kind, and as far as I can tell the ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND currently available. We have listings of Mythos fiction, but no real discussion of the authors and their works. Reading this book has filled me with renewed determination to hone my skills and write many more tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, stories that pay authentic homage to H. P. Lovecraft without merely ripping off his ideas. If you have any interest in the Cthulhu Mythos, this is the book for you. As an introduction to the stories, it is unsurpassed. It will lead you to the best books in this weird fiction tradition.

I return to this book again and again -- just as I continually reread Lin Carter's far less impressive (but just as fun) book on the Mythos. S. T. divides the Mythos into those tales written by H. P. Lovecraft (which he calls the Lovecraft Mythos) and those written by others, called the Cthulhu Mythos. It must be remembered that, although the Mythos as we have it now came about hugely from tales that were written after Lovecraft's death, that he was alive when this kind of tale was beginning to be penned by the young men who adored his fiction then as we do now. I was just reading the letters that Lovecraft wrote to Robert Bloch, in the booklet published in 1993 by Necronomicon Press; and in his introduction Robert Bloch wrote:

"The first fan letter I ever wrote was sent to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a few days after my sixteenth birthday.

"I sold my first story to WEIRD TALES just a little more than a year later. Only a few weeks out of high school, I'd gratuated from schoolboy to full time professional writer. To this day I'm convinced it never would have happened without the suggestions, the help, and the encouragement I received from Lovecraft's letters."

That first story was called "The Secret in the Tomb," so I believe -- and it has been included in the Chaosium collection of all of Bloch's Cthulhu Mythos stories, MYSTERIES OF THE WORM. Think of it -- if it wasn't for Lovecraft's inspiring that teenage boy to write, we wouldn't have Bloch's fiction! But there is a chain of influence. After I graduated from high school my buddy and I did a horror film fanzine, and I wrote to Bloch and asked him to write a wee tribute to Forry Ackerman. He did so, and we continued to correspond. When I was a Mormon missionary in Ireland I couldn't attend horror cinema, so I bought anthologies that had stories by Bloch in them. I got hooked on weird fiction, and then I got hooked on Lovecraft and began to write my own Mythos fiction -- all because of the influence and friendship of Robert Bloch. And so it goes. Lovecraft is made responsible for all of the amateurish Mythos crap out there -- but he is also the man who influenced that which is good fiction, wonderful stories.

S. T.'s book goes into length describing how Lovecraft began, during his last decade, to write his tales of cosmic horror, and how those stories influenced younger writers such as Bloch and Derleth and so many others. In his introduction, S. T. writes:

"It is, of course, impossible for any human being, within a reasonable time frame, to read all the multifarious contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos from 1926 to the present day -- contributions that take the form of stories, novellas, novels, works appearing in online venues, and so forth. Chris Jarocha-Ernst's A CTHULHU MYTHOS BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CONCORDANCE (1999) lists 2631 works by Lovecraft and others, although this number seems substantially inflated by numerous items that are only tangentially related to Lovecraft's conceptions. In this study, I have paid particular attention to the earliest Mythos writing--by Lovecraft and his immediate colleagues--but have had to be much more selective when dealing with what I believe to be the most significant or noteworthy works by later hands."

It is fascinating, now, to watch S. T. Joshi's current career begin to resemble, queerly, that of August Derleth, in Derleth's role as editor. S. T. revised the three Arkham House editions of Lovecraft's fiction, and then went on to the endless task of editing and publishing Lovecraft's letters. But now -- now, S. T. Joshi is editing books of -- gasp! -- Cthulhu Mythos fiction! He is editing a line of Mythos titles for Perilous Press, the first book of which is a handsome hardcover edition of Michael Shea's Mythos fiction. He has edited, for Mythos Books, an anthology of Cthulhu Mythos fiction, SPAWN OF THE GREEN ABYSS, that will be published this year. Most important, he has edited a book called BLACK WINGS -- NEW TALES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR. It cannot be called a book of Mythos fiction, but it is an extraordinary collection of extremely fine tales by modern horror and science fiction authors who have been influenced by Lovecraft. One may say, then, that, at present, the Mythos, once so abhorred by Joshi, now has him by the balls! YOG-SOTHOTH!!!

poftscript:
S. T. continues his exploration and promotion of the Mythos with a new book that is forthcoming from Miskatonic River Press -- DISSECTING CTHULHU--ESSAYS ON THE CTHULHU MYTHOS. You may read of the book and eventually order it at the Miskatonic River Press website,
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where you will also find a wealth of other titles. With this new book, S. T. has assembled an agglutination of essays by such notables as Richard L. Tierney, Robert M. Price, Dirk W. Mosig, Steven J. Mariconda and others discussing the books and gods and topography of the Mythos, the influence that Lovecraft absorbed from using the Mythos and its motifs, &c &c. Sounds delicious.
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R. W. Merriman
5,0 sur 5 étoiles As essential as the Necronomicon!
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 7 août 2011
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I not only admire the works of HP Lovecraft, I'm also a writer who has been inspired to emulate (ok, I mean rip off, but in a deferential way...) Lovecraft's work.
The problem is, with so many people contributing wordage to the body of work we know as the Cthulhu Mythos, it's inevitable that things get changed, with individual writers altering (subtly or otherwise) Lovecraft's vision to better fit their own ideas, and equally inevitable is the variation in quality on offer.

ST Joshi is acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on Lovecraft, perhaps even the ultimate authority, short of the man himself, and this volume shows why.
Now it must be said, I'm not that big on scholarly texts (I'd be rubbish trying to make sense of the various "forbidden books" that crop up in Mythos literature), but this had me riveted.

Why?

Because it's a masterpiece, pure and simple! Joshi has a style that is accessible while presenting a vast wealth of information. He is clearly a serious scholar who knows his subject inside out, but he delivers his knowledge, not in the condescending manner you tend to expect from "experts", but in a way that makes you want to read further.

For example, Joshi has a very dry, cynical sense of humour that comes to the fore when he's lambasting woefully undertalented imitators of Lovecraft. He offers clinical, objective criticism, but then he laces it with language that leaves you in no doubt how he feels about it.

But this isn't just a list of would-be Lovecraftian copycats getting their comeuppance; on the contrary, Joshi is very thorough in picking out the good stuff too. He even differentiates between good and bad examples of work by the same author. Part of the fun is finding out what he makes of any given contributor.
In all, I have to rate this book very highly. It's educational and entertaining. On the down side, I now feel entirely inadequate to the task of adding my own work to the Mythos, but hey-ho...

A note of caution to end with: if you're a big fan of August Derleth, and all the hard work he put into "keeping Lovecraft's vision alive", this probably isn't the book for you. No, seriously, I wouldn't...
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1000Worsh
4,0 sur 5 étoiles Great overview
Commenté aux États-Unis le 12 octobre 2018
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Great overview of the primary mythos contributors' works, with most important/best works cited. As usual Joshi's strong opinions can be distracting at times but, if you've read anything else he's done that should come as no surprise. Joshi recognizes Derleth's role in keeping Lovecraft in the public eye but obviously doesn't think much of Derleth's corruption of Lovecraft's philosophy, hence little space is given to those authors/works that were influenced more by Derleth than Lovecraft. All in all, an interesting study.
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4,0 sur 5 étoiles Gift
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 1 février 2017
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Bought as a gift, recipient happy.
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