H.P. Lovecraft 08: The Statement of Randolph Carter
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Statement of Randolph Carter Harley Warren is an expert on violent criminals and often assists the FBI in their profiling and pursuit of criminals who tend to be on the bizarre side. Warren believes in exploring the darker side of man¸ especially those who seek to live in the shadows of normalcy. Randolph Carter is Dr. Warren's reluctant chronicler and assistant. He is disturbed by Warren's fascination of "sickos and ghouls" and is further worried when Warren is unable to resist purchasing a copy of the most famous of forbidden books¸ The Necronomicon ¸ from an anonymous seller. When Warren reads in the book about a site that can reveal the darkest and oldest mysteries of the stygian unknown¸ Warren wastes no time packing up his reluctant chronicler and assistant¸ Randolph Carter¸ to explore the site. Overview Along with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King¸ Howard Phillips Lovecraft is considered one of America's most innovative and popular American horror writers. The master of the weird tale during the first decades of the 20 th Century until his premature death in 1937¸ Lovecraft's distinctive style and canon of work has influenced as many authors as the stories of Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett. Lovecraft's earliest published work¸ Herbert West: Re-Animator ¸ was turned into the 1985 cult classic film¸ Reanimator.