Supernatural Horror in Literature
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798611920824
- Series
- Supernatural Horror in Literature
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-02-09
- Author
- H P Lovecraft
Description
"The most important essay on horror literature."- David G. HartwellLovecraft 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.
