Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) is a famous American writer who, having written a huge number of short stories, many novels and three novels (not to mention the archive of his correspondence, which is considered the largest in the world), was unfortunately almost unknown during his lifetime and died in solitude, without waiting for the future worldwide fame of his significant literary output. However, already in the second half of the 20th century, Lovecraft's work deservedly gained world fame and won the admiration of millions of its connoisseurs.
Already today, Lovecraft is one of those writers who do not need special recommendations, rightfully occupying the place of the Patriarch of the literature of the "quirky, otherworldly and terrible". It is difficult to overestimate the influence of his work on the modern literature of many, even distant from "Lovecraftian aesthetics", genres, as well as on mass culture in general. Drawing his inspiration from the works of another outstanding American, Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft was able to create his completely original literary world of myths and dark prophecies, forgotten gods from distant faded stars and night dreams in which dark hidden truths are revealed. The literary legacy of Howard Phillips Lovecraft found its embodiment in films, works of fine art and even songs and album titles of famous bands, and in terms of the number of successors of his literary traditions, he leaves behind many writers of the world.
The third volume of the complete collection of prose works of the outstanding literary master of the "mysterious and otherworldly" H. F. Lovecraft is dedicated to the last period of the writer's life and work (1930 to 1935), when the most extensive works appeared from his pen, such as "The Whisper in the dark", "In the mountains of madness", "Gloom over Innsmouth", "Dreams in the witch's house" and "Behind the veil of time", which completed the formation of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle and fully revealed Lovecraft's whimsical and whimsical cosmogony.
