“Le Tertre” (The Mound), by HP Lovecraft, translated from English (United States) and prefaced by Laurent Folliot, Rivages, “Poche”, 188 p., €8.50.
“The Turn of the Screw,” by Henry James, translated from English (United States) and afterword by Jean Pavans, Points, “Signatures,” 256 p.
“Vampirology”, by Adrien Party, Hélios, 734 p., 12.90 euros.
Meanwhile, trudging from unfathomable abysses or plummeting from beyond space, Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth, Lovecraftian deities of indescribable horror, have just made their entry, in the light of twenty-nine stories, in “La Pléiade” under the direction of Philippe Jaworski (Stories1,408 pages, 69 euros), it would be a mistake not to point the binoculars in the direction of Moundlong story by HP Lovecraft (1890-1937) proposed by Laurent Folliot, also one of the master builders of “La Pléiade”. Text that sheds light on the harsh working conditions of the author of Demons and wonders (1955) and provides a better introduction to his world. In fact, if there is a Lovecraft horror narrator and poet, a Lovecraft letter writer, there is also a Lovecraft literary consultant for amateur fantasy writers, and in this case, a Lovecraft. ghost writer. Indeed, The Tertrepublished in 1940 in the magazine strange taleswas written in 1929 for one Zealia Bishop (1897-1968), a journalist who paid poor Lovecraft for three stories.
Beware of short titles in Lovecraft! When removed, these wax plugs often release black odors, such as cold air (1928) or The party (1925). Whose act with The Tertrecentered on a mysterious mound of witnesses located in Binger (Oklahoma), a place of paranormal manifestations and above all fatal for all those who, with a pickaxe on their shoulder and a rack on their belt, try to get to the bottom of it by digging around. HE “clean heart” It is not Lovecraftian and the daring ones return (if they return at all) all crazy, mutilated, emaciated, mumbling infamous wisdom or hiccups with crazy words. Wouldn’t it have been the hero narrator who, armed with an Indian talisman, finally crosses the “threshold” of the mound, discovering in situ the written testimony of a Spanish conquistador that reveals that, under the thin terrestrial film, under the fragile varnish of the human civilization, hallucinatory worlds are being built that populate a fauna of terror. An ideal and abysmal introduction to the Lovecraftian world.
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