Carlo Pagetti Books

Another excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," and many more hair-raising tales. The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed cloth-bound hardcovers feature a slipcase and ribbon marker, as well as a comprehensive introduction providing the reader with enlightening information on the author's life and works.

Anno 2203: il dominio dell'universo è assegnato seguendo le leggi casuali di un complesso gioco che si svolge sotto la supervisione del Quizmaster Verrick. Quando Ted Bentley, un tecnico di ricerca che ha appena perduto il lavoro, firma un contratto con Leo Cartwright, non immagina che il suo nuovo datore di lavoro sta per diventare il nuovo Quizmaster. E non sa neppure di essere destinato ad avere un ruolo fondamentale nel complotto ordito per assassinare Cartwright in modo che Verrick possa riprendere il controllo di un universo che si rivelerà molto meno imprevedibile di quanto non appaia.

A classic of feminist predictive fiction finally returns to the light. 700 years after Hitler personally won the war, one man discovers the truth about his god. This remarkably prescient novel of the future under Nazism was published in 1937.