Author: LOVECRAFT, H. P. (HOWARD PHILLIPS) (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUGUST DERLETH)
Title: Supernatural Horror in Literature
Description: New York: Ben Abramson, 1945. 2nd State. Hardcover. 2nd state copy with red cloth binding and error corrected on page 66 (left on line one). This copy is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. Both endpapers have some beginning generalized toning. "Lovecraft's essay ranges widely, but he first examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the early gothic novel. As a guide for what to read in the early gothic he relied partly on Edith Birkhead's 1921 historical survey The Tale of Terror, and he was also able to draw on the expertise of the great many experts and collectors in his circle. The bulk of the essay was written in New York City giving Lovecraft easy access to the resources of the city's great public libraries and also to the collections of his friends, and thus he was able to read widely and obtain obscure and rare works. His survey then proceeds to outline the development of the supernatural and the weird in the work of major writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft names as the four "modern masters" of horror: Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, and Arthur Machen. In addition to these masters, Lovecraft attempts to make the essay an encompassing survey, and thus he mentions or notes many others in passing." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

Keywords: Horror H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft Supernatural Fiction Macabre Fiction Essays


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