Supernatural Horror in Literature: A Pulp-Lit Annotated Edition

by Finn J D John, H. P. Lovecraft

Overview

Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.P. Lovecraft's "master's thesis," is a tour de force of literary analysis, tracing the origins of the horror genre back to its origins and beyond. In it, Lovecraft starts with humanity's earliest days and traces horror-lit through the centuries from Horace Walpole through Mary Wollstonecraft, to Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, and on into the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945032219
Publisher:	Pulp-Lit Productions
Publication date:	08/05/2016
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.29(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 3
Supernatural Horror in Literature:
I. Introduction 1
II. The Dawn of the Horror-Tale 7
III. The Gothic Novel 13
IV. The Apex of Gothic Romance 21
V. The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction 29
VI. Spectral literature on the Continent 39
VII. Edgar Allan Poe 47
VIII. The Weird Tradition in America 57
IX. The Weird Tradition in the British Isles 75
X. Modern Masters 87