Let me just say this right off the bat that I prefer to shop at one of the many quaint and locally owned book stores that dot the greater Seattle area. Nothing will ever change that. But I'll be damned if there is one thing that draws me to Barnes and Noble on occasion and that would be their excellent and reasonably priced collections of classic literature in hardcover. This year saw the release of a
complete and unabridged collection of one the favorite authors of my young adult life: the great Cosmic Horror writer of the 1920's, H.P.Lovecraft.
For those who don't know of this, the most unusual of writers, Lovecraft was an American author of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy who wrote primarily short stories for pulp magazine and publications in the early 1900's. As seems to be common with some of artist we now regard as classic, his following was slight during his life and it has only been since his death that his fame and reputation have multiplied.
