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Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0967321581
From the Pest zone: Stories from New York.
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
"Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a 28,000 word essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s.
Author : Sean Moreland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319954776
This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft’s criticism, from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its psychobiological underpinnings, to its pervasive influence on the conception and course of horror and weird literature through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance to contemporary social science, feminist and queer readings of his work, and ultimately reveal Lovecraft’s importance for contemporary speculative philosophy, film and literature.
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780605982017
”The reader would do well to remember that it is Lovecraft‘s shadow which overlies almost all of the important horror fiction.”—Stephen King Written by arguably the most important horror writer of the twentieth century, H. P. Lovecraft’s 1927 essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature” traces the evolution of the genre from the early Gothic novels to the work of contemporary American and British authors. Throughout, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in their work. This chilling collection also contains Henry James’ wonderfully atmospheric short novel The Turn of the Screw. For every fan of modern horror, here is an opportunity to rediscover the origins of the genre with some of most terrifying stories ever imagined.
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Namaskar Book
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Prepare to embark on a journey into the chilling unknown with "Supernatural Horror in Literature: A Journey into the Chilling Unknown" by H. P. Lovecraft. In this captivating exploration, Lovecraft delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, unraveling tales of terror and dread that will haunt your dreams. As you delve into Lovecraft's macabre world, be prepared to confront ancient evils, cosmic horrors, and unspeakable terrors beyond human comprehension. Lovecraft's mastery of the supernatural genre will transport you to realms where sanity teeters on the brink of oblivion. But here's the question that lingers in the shadows: What if the true horror lies not in the monsters that lurk in the darkness, but in the existential dread that permeates the human experience? Could Lovecraft's tales of cosmic insignificance and existential terror be reflections of our own fears and anxieties? Engage with Lovecraft's seminal work as he guides you through the annals of supernatural literature, from the eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe to the spine-chilling stories of Algernon Blackwood. Through his insightful analysis and unparalleled storytelling, Lovecraft offers readers a glimpse into the abyss of the unknown. Are you ready to confront the horrors that lurk beyond the veil of reality? Immerse yourself in Lovecraft's world of eldritch horrors and forbidden knowledge, where each story is a journey into the depths of the human psyche. Let Lovecraft's haunting prose and vivid imagination transport you to realms where the line between dreams and nightmares blurs. Here's your invitation to explore the twisted landscapes of the supernatural with H. P. Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature." Will you accept the challenge and venture into the chilling unknown? Don't miss out on the opportunity to experience this timeless masterpiece. Purchase your copy of "Supernatural Horror in Literature: A Journey into the Chilling Unknown" now, and prepare to confront the darkness that lies within.
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781909606005
Originally published in 1927 in a small-circulation amateur magazine, spanning the period from antiquity until the 1930s, and covering both the Anglo-American world and Continental Europe, Lovecraft’s essay remains unparallelled as a survey of horror literature in our hemisphere. Said literature’s emergence as a genre coincided with the institutional establishment of liberalism, which represents a diametrically opposed worldview. This would suggest that horror literature, even if inadvertently or subconsciously, represents an attempt at escaping the limitations of the secular, materialist, rationalist Weltanschauung of liberal modernity, as well as a desire for meaning in a world rendered meaningless through ‘liberation’ from hierarchies, folk traditions, the occult, and the supernatural. Also of interest is the fact that the aesthetics of Gothic horror are invariably and luxuriantly beautiful (if in a dark way), whereas the logical extreme of rationality (utilitarianism, standardisation) is inherently anti-aesthetic. Would this not indicate, then, that the Age of Reason marked the beginning of a process that concluded in late modernity with the wholesale destruction of beauty, except where it, or the counterfeiting of it, was dictated by economic necessity? If so, we may view Lovecraft’s essay not merely as a resource for those seeking entertainment within a genre of literature, but also a map for those seeking to escape, and begin to transcend, the despair engendered by a worldview that pronounced itself dead when someone spoke of ‘the end of history’.
Author : James Goho
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442231467
The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice, writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting truths about the human condition, ranging from mistreatment of women and minorities to the ever-present dangers of modern city life. In Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror, James Goho analyzes many significant writers and trends in American and British horror fiction. Beginning with Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing novels of terror and madness, Goho proceeds to discuss the influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” on H. P. Lovecraft, who is treated in several penetrating essays. Lovecraft was a uniquely philosophical writer, and Goho approaches his work through the lens of existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, while also probing Lovecraft’s racism as exhibited in several tales about Native Americans. Goho also discusses the Welsh writer Arthur Machen’s tortured tales of suffering and evil and Algernon Blackwood’s numerous stories set in the wilds of the Canadian backwoods. The book concludes with a centuries-spanning essay on the witchcraft theme in the American Gothic tradition and a comprehensive essay on Fritz Leiber’s invention of the urban Gothic. In this wide-ranging study, James Goho examines the varied ways in which supernatural fiction can address the deepest moral, social, and political concerns of the human experience. Journeys into Darkness will be of interest to readers and scholars of horror fiction and to students of literary history and culture in general.
Author : H. P. H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520615450
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft "Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a book by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the topic of horror fiction. Lovecraft examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the gothic novel (relying greatly on Edith Birkhead's 1921 survey The Tale of Terror) and traces its development through such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe (who merits his own chapter). Lovecraft names as the four "modern masters" of horror: Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, and Arthur Machen. An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia terms the work "HPL's most significant literary essay and one of the finest historical analyses of horror literature." Upon reading the essay, M. R. James proclaimed Lovecraft's style "most offensive". However, Edmund Wilson, who was not an admirer of Lovecraft's fiction, praised the essay as a "really able piece of work...he had read comprehensively in this field--he was strong on the Gothic novelists--and writes about it with much intelligence".David G. Hartwell has called "Supernatural Horror in Literature", "the most important essay on horror literature".
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1500499455
Supernatural Horror in Literature H. P. Lovecraft The Most Important Essay on Horror Literature"Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a long essay by the celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933–1934. It was first published in 1927 in the one-shot magazine The Recluse. More recently, it was included in the collection Dagon and Other Macabre Tales.Lovecraft examines the roots of weird fiction in the gothic novel (relying heavily on Edith Birkhead's 1921 survey The Tale of Terror), and traces its development through such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe (who merits his own chapter), and Ambrose Bierce. Lovecraft names as the four "modern masters" of horror Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James.An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia calls the work "HPL's most significant literary essay and one of the finest historical analyses of horror literature." Upon reading the essay, M. R. James proclaimed Lovecraft's style "most offensive." However, Edmund Wilson, who was not an admirer of Lovecraft's fiction, praised the essay as a "really able piece of work...he had read comprehensively in this field — he was strong on the Gothic novelists — and writes about it with much intelligence".[4] David G. Hartwell has called "Supernatural Horror in Literature" " the most important essay on horror literature".THE OLDEST and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. Against it are discharged all the shafts of a materialistic sophistication which clings to frequently felt emotions and external events, and of a naively insipid idealism which deprecates the aesthetic motive and calls for a didactic literature to “uplift” the reader toward a suitable degree of smirking optimism. But in spite of all this opposition the weird tale has survived, developed, and attained remarkable heights of perfection; founded as it is on a profound and elementary principle whose appeal, if not always universal, must necessarily be poignant and permanent to minds of the requisite sensitiveness.The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to tappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience. But the sensitive are always with us, and sometimes a curious streak of fancy invades an obscure corner of the very hardest head; so that no amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood. There is here involved a psychological pattern or tradition as real and as deeply grounded in mental experience as any other pattern or tradition of mankind; coeval with the religious feeling and closely related to many aspects of it, and too much a part of our innermost biological heritage to lose keen potency over a very important, though not numerically great, minority of our species.
Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798580261751
Supernatural Horror in Literature is a 28,000 word essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s. The essay was researched and written between November 1925 and May 1927, first published in August 1927, and then revised and expanded during 1933-1934.
Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798663228343
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive classic literature collection. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts, We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. Also in books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. We use state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a long essay by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the topic of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised during 1933-1934. Lovecraft examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the gothic novel (relying greatly on Edith Birkhead's 1921 survey The Tale of Terror) and traces its development through such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe (who merits his own chapter). Lovecraft names as the four "modern masters" of horror: Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, and Arthur Machen.
Author : H P Lovecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798643750505
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. Against it are discharged all the shafts of materialistic sophistication which clings to frequently felt emotions and external events, and of a naively insipid idealism which deprecates the aesthetic motive and calls for a didactic literature to "uplift" the reader toward a suitable degree of smirking optimism. But in spite of all this opposition the weird tale has survived, developed, and attained remarkable heights of perfection; founded as it is on a profound and elementary principle whose appeal, if not always universal, must necessarily be poignant and permanent to minds of the requisite sensitiveness.
Author : H. Lovecraft,Scáth Beorh,Creeping Light Press
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727215184
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE is the seminal essay by Horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. This work is arguably the best exposition ever written for the Horror genre of Literature, and is a must-read for anyone even remotely interested in studies of the all dark literature.
Author : H P Lovecraft
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798519817301
"Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a 28,000 word essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s.
Author : Robert F. Geary
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773491643
While the numinous and heavily psychological aspects of the Gothic have received serious attention, studies do not tend to examine the relation of the Gothic supernatural to the very different backgrounds of 18th-century and Victorian belief. This study examines the rise of the form, the artistic difficulties experienced by its early practitioners, and the transformation of the original problem-ridden Gothic works into the successful Victorian tales of unearthly terror. In doing so, this study makes a distinct contribution to our grasp of the Gothic and of the links between literature and religion.