El clérigo malvado

Escrito por H. P. Lovecraft

Narrado por Niloofer Khan y Pablo López

Un hombre entra en un extraño ático donde parece que vivió un brujo. Antes de irse, su acompañante le advierte que no debe tocar nada de lo que hay allí, sobre todo el pequeño objeto que hay sobre la mesa. Cuando su compañero se marcha, el narrador queda sólo en el ático, y comienza a recorrer el lugar y, sin poder evitarlo, su curiosidad por el objeto prohibido se acrecienta hasta que algo le empieza a suceder…En El clérigo malvado, H.P Lovecraft desarrolla con maestría el estilo que lo caracteriza. Mezclando suspenso, horror y ciencia ficción, esta breve historia crea una atmósfera opresiva que lo mantendrá en vilo hasta el final.Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), más conocido como H.P. Lovecraft, fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas y relatos cortos de terror y ciencia ficción. Conocido por enfocarse en el género llamado horror cósmico, su obra mezcla el terror sobrenatural con elementos de ciencia ficción, como otras dimensiones, viajes en el tiempo y extraterrestres.Autor de reconocidos cuentos como Dagón (1917), La tumba (1917), Celefais (1920) o La decisión de Randolph Carter (1919). Su obra más importante llamada Los mitos de Cthulhu incluye famosos relatos como “La Ciudad Sin Nombre” (1921), “El Ceremonial” (1923) o “La Llamada De Cthulhu” (1926).

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: SAGA Egmont
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 13 may 2019
• ISBN: 9788726161298

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.