King intros HP Lovecraft

jhanic

Peter Straub did it, and now King writes his thoughts about HP Lovecraft in H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Dorna Khazeni. Published by McSweeney's.



Who is Howard Phillips Lovecraft-whom Stephen King, in a lively introduction to Houellebecq's essay, describes as the "Dark Prince of Providence"



Dorna Khazeni's translation is padded out with two fine Lovecraft stories and an off-the-cuff introduction by Stephen King.

jhanic

Bev, do you have a link?



John

BevVincent

Here's the Amazon link



Here's the NY Times article. And another.

jhanic

Thanks, Bev.



Mine's on order!



John

BevVincent

I read one of Houellebecq's novels a couple of years ago--what a strange trip that was. His name is pronounced something like "Wellbeck."

sheepish

Bev, which one did you read? I read one of his novels a few years ago (without having any idea who he was) and it was . . . underwhelming, I would say. Kind of dull.



Perhaps I should have read a different one.

BevVincent

It was called The Elementary Particles.

BevVincent

Here's an essay by King about HP Lovecraft in the LA Times.

CRinVA

"Lovecraft's Pillow"



There, that's a teaser - now go read the article. Thanks for the link Bev!

sheepish

Bev_Vincent wrote: It was called The Elementary Particles.

Thanks. I may have to try something else of his at some point.



The book I read was Whatever - I picked it up randomly at a used book store - and the reviewer consensus seems to be that it was not one of his better efforts.

Lou_Sytsma

King's essay was great. Anyone going to take him up on the offer of writing a story about Lovecraft's pillow?