Supernatural Horror in Literature

by H. P. Lovecraft

Overview

In this essay Lovecraft states the following: "The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain --a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daeligmons of unplumbed space."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663558794
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	08/29/2020
Edition description:	All Time Classics ed.
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

H. P. LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) was born in Providence, Rhode Island (USA). Master of horror, the weird and science fiction, his literary works include The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, and the novellas At the Mountains of Madness and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, amongst other masterpieces of short fiction and a number of essays. Lovecraft also wrote thousands of letters to family members, friends and colleagues. Supernatural Horror in Literature is his most notable essay on writing, published in 1927.