Cryptosophy. Selected works

"Truly, the benefit of the human race, if the sacred secrets of this world remain unsolved, for they have nothing to do with the descendants of Adam, and the unfortunate mortal who dares to penetrate them, risks losing his mind and becoming an outcast, doomed to earn his time A miserable existence in sad loneliness, ”warned the American writer-fantasy Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890-1937), who very well understood the monstrous danger of profanity of esoteric knowledge, hidden from the non-indispensable secrets of the secret, a symbol and a symbol and a symbol and a symbol and a symbol. Even the synonym of which was crypto from the beginning of time ...
In the complete "disturbing strangeness" of the enigmatical fanasmagoria of the master of black fiction, which included in the real "Grimoer", this gloomy image is reflected by a variety of faces: cave, grotto, grave, crypt, mausoleum, catacombs, ossuarius, Kenotaf, ancient Egyptian mastaba - However, no matter what exotic derivatives the ominous abode of death, which was converging in the darkness of the htonic gods, is always the abyss - the abyss of the earth, the abyss of the sea, the abyss of the time, the abyss of the times, the “non -labeling” of which throughout his life, which was magnetically attracting him, causing him, forcing him Almost in every story of his own nightmare catabasis on the pitch night of underground labyrinths in the futile search of what has never happened there and never will be - the bottom. And only the fatal fascination of the abyss can explain this endless Tanatological quest of the writer who is expelled by cryptomania, whose creative heritage is a strange and paradoxical complex of epistemological ideas, based on the denial of fundamental cosmological and anthropocentric concepts, fancifully refracted by the author’s imagination Their skillfully mimicing under real reality toponymy and cryptozoological, borrowed from medieval bestiarias and demonological treatises by monsters - in a word, everything that can now be fully called Lovecraft Cryptosophy