The Washington Post, May 15th, 2005
H.P. LOVECRAFT: Tales Edited by Peter Straub Library of America. 838 pp. $35 H.P. LOVECRAFT Against the World, Against Life By Michel Houellebecq Translated from the French by Dorna Khazeni Believer. 247 pp. $18 "The only horror," wrote Edmund Wilson of H.P. Lovecraft, "is the horror of bad taste and bad art." Yet here Lovecraft is, enshrined in his own volume of the Library of America, in the company of Twain and Hawthorne, Douglass, Lincoln, both Jameses and Vladimir Nabokov. The selection of stories is edited by the horror writer Peter Straub (In the Night Room, Ghost Story), with no expla...
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