Necronomicon: Zap. Production. Lovecraft H.F.

“At the beginning, there was horror”-so, probably, the Holy Scriptures of Howard Phillips Lovecraft would begin (1890-1937). “Fear is the most ancient and stronger of human feelings, and the most ancient and most powerful fear is the fear of the unknown,” stated in the essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature” one of the strangest writers of the 20th century, confirming this thesis with all his works. < /p>

The collection includes recognized masterpieces of the ominous phantasmagori Lovecraft, in which some doctrinal positions of the Golden Dawn are so clearly and systematically traced, which many authoritative commentators involuntarily had the idea of ​​a certain magical transcontinental inspection of the American writer by secret order knowledge. It seems that “necronomicon” will be a real breakthrough in understanding the complex and contradictory heritage of the master of “black fantasy” and the first serious attempt to convey in Russian the entire pristine power of this unlike the author, through and in his heavy, seemingly so clumsy syntax. , and in bizarre-archaic vocabulary.

In general, it should be noted the extreme enigmatism of complete "disturbing strangeness" of Lovecraft's texts, which incorporates very dark aspects of esoteric knowledge, demonological rituals and occult practices, should not be forgotten and should not be forgotten and About the mystification connotations that refer to rare and often fantastic sources. Nevertheless, some literary critics tried to classify the creativity of an American writer to be alien to all ethical didactics in science fiction and the Gothic novel. “In this story about the supernatural there is something more than the mysterious murder, half -stroke bones and a shroud with rattling chains. The atmosphere of unlimited irrational horror in front of otherworldly forces should be noticeable in it, ”answered the master, demonstrating complete indifferentism to positivist science and the fate of mankind. - The literature of horror is a separate, but important branch of human expression and therefore will be in demand only a very small audience. And yet, who said that black fiction is so hopeless? The ptolemic cup shining with splendor was carved from black onyx. "