Download or read book An Epicure in the Terrible written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the centennial of the birth of H. P. Lovecraft, the editors have assembled essays by leading Lovecraft scholars that embody a wide variety of critical approaches. Biographical essays treat Lovecraft's relation to his parents and his heritage; thematic essays discuss issues such as the function of the narrator in his fiction; and the comparative and genre studies examine Lovecraft's relation to modernism.