![]() ![]() Lovecraft's Book of Horror, edited by Dave Carson and Stephen Jones. In 1927, Howard Philips Lovecraft published a 30,000-word essay titled "Supernatural Horror in Literature." In it, the father of American horror writing whose tales presented one of the earliest scholarly studies of the supernatural in fiction, defined the horror story as one in which "a certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present." Those authors discussed in Lovecraft's seminal essay were used as the basis for the 1993 anthology H.P. "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear." The reader would do well to remember that it is his shadow, so long and gaunt, and his eyes, so dark and puritanical, which overlie almost all of the important horror fiction that has come since." "Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me - Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and Ray Bradbury among them. Talk about the horse's mouth! This book is long overdue." "For anyone interested even faintly in good horror writing, what we have here is pure gold: Lovecraft's own selection of the best the genre has to offer, along with his comments on the individual stories. ![]()
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