The book, 100 pages 15 'x 23', is bound with color cover and thermal internal cream paper (60 # weight), and will cost € 15. The price, which will cover the cost of printing and distribution, including shipping costs.
Given the specialized nature and control of our publications, the readership will be limited based on the reservations, so that the availability will be limited in time. The book will be distributed by January 2008, so hurry to order your copy (or multiple copies) if you do not want to risk running out! The address for questions, requests, etc.. is, as usual, studilovecraft@yahoo.it .
The preface of the book Lie and Persecution in the horror of Dunwich HP Lovecraft was written by Stefano Mazza young talent emerging in the field of critical studies Lovecraftian. Let us quote here an excerpt:
... Several scholars have labored to identify the moral and symbolic overtones that make up The Dunwich Horror, which is certainly one of the most widely read and popular of all production Lovecraftian, but despite this still seems to remain somewhat controversial and not fully understood in all its aspects. The reason for this lack is probably the hybrid nature of the multi-story, which includes some traditional horror and weird, that, to be Machen's Great God Pan, The Horla of Maupassant and others, from which Lovecraft manages to take something new and modern, with its typical and unmistakable vein. The Dunwich Horror is thus a reading still full of ideas for interpreting the modern reader and the critical, since the narrative elements that are part of strong ambiguity of meaning that have not yet been investigated at all and who do not deserve to be belittled or ignored. In the past, some critics have trivialized the story calling it a usual Manichean story of good (the prof. Armitage) versus evil (the Whateley, the Horror and Yog-Sothoth), others such as Donald R. Burleson, have instead read as a parody of the classic gothic tale. These and other similar interpretations are indeed possible and give an account of some marginal aspect of the story, however, has the defect of not investigate beyond the surface meaning of the very first story. Here then comes the need to deal systematic, rigorous and scientific The Dunwich Horror to get on top of its many components, but also the many dynamics that are intertwined with the texture of the story (...) The solid work of Andrew and James Becherini Bencistà responds to its' need to get to the bottom as far as possible to fund the many levels of interpretation possible in the story and dispel the doubts that the interpretation of various poses, with lucidity and clarity than ever before. In this sense, it must be said that this essay is the first worldwide to address systematically the Dunwich Horror with such a spirit of investigation and, even, to do so with such illuminating depth. Reading the pages che seguono troviamo infatti dispiegate le dinamiche, esaminati tutti i personaggi e fornito al lettore un valido aiuto per comprendere quale sia la vera natura dell’Orrore che prende forma a Dunwich: comprendiamo infatti che esso nasce e si sviluppa grazie ad un intero mondo che tutto insieme concorre a nutrirlo. (... ) Comprendiamo allora che il senso di inquietudine percepibile dal lettore nelle pagine di questa storia, dipende principalmente dall’origine composita della follia e degli orrori di Dunwich, che qui vengono sistematizzati e parafrasati come mai prima è stato fatto. Il risultato dell’opera di Becherini e Bencistà è, infine, una vera e propria guida capace di aiutare il lettore a capire ciò che succede a Dunwich, quali are the various aspects of each force in the game, what is the role of the two monstrous twins, to put it another way, what are the ways through which to escape the maze semiotic Dunwich ... "
