As published in Lovecraft’s essay Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927). In the eighteen-thirties occurred a literary dawn directly affecting not only the history of the weird tale, but that of short fiction as a whole; and indirectly molding the trends and fortunes of a great European aesthetic school. It is our good fortune as Americans…
As published in Lovecraft’s essay Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927). Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of Robert W. Chambers, since renowned for products of a very different quality. The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories…
As published in Lovecraft’s essay Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927). Less intense than Mr. Machen in delineating the extremes of stark fear, yet infinitely more closely wedded to the idea of an unreal world constantly pressing upon ours, is the inspired and prolific Algernon Blackwood, amidst whose voluminous and uneven work may be found some…
As published in Lovecraft’s essay Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927). Of rather uneven stylistic quality, but vast occasional power in its suggestion of lurking worlds and beings behind the ordinary surface of life, is the work of William Hope Hodgson, known today far less than it deserves to be. Despite a tendency toward conventionally sentimental…
As published in Lovecraft’s essay Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927). The best horror-tales of today, profiting by the long evolution of the type, possess a naturalness, convincingness, artistic smoothness, and skilful intensity of appeal quite beyond comparison with anything in the Gothic work of a century or more ago. Technique, craftsmanship, experience, and psychological knowledge…
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