Los gatos de Ulthar

Escrito por Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Narrado por Niloofer Khan y Pablo López

Mientras mira a su gato, un narrador desconocido, recuerda que en el pueblo de Ulthar existe una ley que prohíbe matar a los gatos y nos cuenta el oscuro por qué…Resulta que en Ulthar vivía una pareja de ancianos campesinos que se divertían atrapando y asesinando gatos de maneras extrañas, sin saber que destino que les esperaría.Escrito en 1920 por H.P. Lovecraft, Los gatos de Ulthar es uno de los cuentos más populares del reconocido escritor.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 célebres 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: 9788726161335

Howard Phillips 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.