With Lovecraft, the Pléiade scares us

CHRONICLE – Howard Phillips Lovecraft enters the prestigious collection on bible paper. It’s a sign that the end of times is approaching.

You who enter this article, abandon all hope. It’s already too late, you’re haunted by the curse. You’ll lose your mind and drool green poison all over your magazine. Your teeth will fall out and your eyes will become bloodshot. Death sneers at you. Your hair stands on end. Are you shaking? That’s to be expected. For the terrible work published by the Pléiade (with new translations) this week is the work of a cursed author.

All those who have opened it have entered another world, populated by unspeakable creatures and perpetual punishment. The great Cthulhu, a kind of subterranean devil, the despicable Yog-Sothoth and the Necrocomiconthe demonic book by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, not forgetting Nyarlathotep, nicknamed the Creeping Chaos, all these monsters are already dragging you into the depths of darkness. You’ll never escape.

The world of the novelist from Providence, Rhode Island, is inherited from the nightmares of his compatriot…

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