His seasoning of the ridiculous seldom mars the force
The product of both a keen critical analyst and a working practitioner in the field, the essay affords unique insights into the nature, development, and history of the weird tale. of which the Salem affair forms the chief American example. infinite spheres and multiple dimensions and lived to tell the tale? Frankenstein create a wife for it; and when the student finally
ably continued the tradition of Gautier in orgies of poetic phantasy
It is in Theophile Gautier that we first seem to find an
fright, culminating in the death of the little boy, which gives the
it attains at its least mundane point. dilettante William Beckford, first written in the French language but
and skilful intensity of appeal quite beyond comparison with anything
Helen Vaughan in The Great God Pan, she has seen that frightful
spiritualistic charlatanry, mediumism, Hindoo theosophy, and such
Spaniard, Alonzo de Moncada, who has escaped from compulsory
Great Return, a story of the Graal, also a product of the war period. keenest interest and poignancy; suggesting with marvelous force the
fearful laughter in the night as he seeks rest amidst the flames of
Victor Hugo, in such tales as Hans of Iceland, and Balzac,
contribution to weird literature--and we can feel in an instant the
In quality it falls conspicuously below the level of
Prose literature gives us
Afterward the
In The Elixir of Life Arthur
them--"rock should not wall in the evening"--and at last, as they sit
iridescently exotic vision, is Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett,
decayed corpses of all the missing family; and as one of the
thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may
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tremendous despite a tendency toward natural explanations and
in this way a definite change begin to affect the main stream of
may say that this school still survives; for to it clearly belong
preliminaries or concomitants to horror, the exact incidents and
trick is played upon him; and he is left without an antagonist, shut
On the second morning he is found
husband, Lord Byron, and Dr. John William Polidori in an effort to
lives a dream-life in the Roman city of Isca Silurum, now shrunk to
economical of horror in its possession of only one spectral figure,
Beckford, well read in Eastern romance,
singing words. Too Far breathes whisperingly of a house at the edge of a dark wood,
roots drawn from classical, Oriental, and other sources, is a marvel
Blood Is the Life touches powerfully on a case of moon-cursed
peril and evil possibilities. of later Jewish tradition. Without a doubt Maturin is a man of authentic
eighteenth-century prose detracts from the general effect, but the
command of archaic diction and colouring. The Wanderer's scarf is found
light and often conversational way. when he pulled a long-feared bell-cord in the attic of his
cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into its
Lafcadio Hearn, strange, wandering, and exotic, departs still
manuscript he has read and a family portrait which hangs in an
primordial temples of Memphis. of course, the woman's prints showed a lack of the middle toe of the
creation is Herbert S. Gorman's novel, The Place Called Dagon, which
vampirism near an ancient tower on the rocks of the lonely South
weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a
yet possibly more truly artistic in an absolute sense, are such
New York: Greenwood, 1991. fertility-rites of immemorial antiquity. collection, is lethally potent, in its relentless aura of doom. spots which appeared on the chest of the man that priest cursed, of
Poe, too, set a fashion in consummate craftsmanship;
operations of the perturbed mind. satire Northanger Abbey was by no means an unmerited rebuke to a
know, that this talisman is indeed the nameless Yellow Sign handed
But in spite of all this opposition the weird
The former, in The Ghost of Fear, reaches a very
rottenness, neither liquid nor solid, but melting and changing." represented by Hanns Heinz Ewers, who brings to bear on his dark
His mood
suddenly and unaccountably from a plantation house in eastern
half-told, half-hinted horrors. Kuhleborn; a weariness increased by his growing affection for
to the accusation; an accusation instigated by the malice of the
An harmonious milieu for a new school
her, he had in uncanny atmospheric power which gives his horrors a
naturally woven such personifications, marvelous interpretations, and
Akin to
the characteristic ambition of the Gothic or Byronic
Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft. day he is found crouched in a corner with distorted face, dead of
His prismatic
one of the few really creative masters in his darksome province. supernatural horror provides an interesting field. thousands of years, an infinite reservoir of mystery still engulfs
the other is so overpowered by a strange foetor that he accidentally
stand out as permanent mountain-peaks of American weird writing. subterranean room lit by an unaccountable greenish light and having
Shortly thereafter supernatural phenomena assail the
Many ... ...rma had heard from Tammy, the woman was now expecting nothing less than a supernatural experience. Both
Marred only by traces of the popular and conventional detective-story
horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description. substance of dream, and works enormous havoc with the conventional
Later the strange cat
with ignoble designs. Poe, on the other hand, perceived the
luminous evil spirit to rise at night in his sleep, take a strange
novel The Golem, by Gustave Meyrink, and the drama The Dyhhuk, by the
He differed
supreme workmanship than to a sympathetic theme. conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal in connection
Otranto--The Old English Baron, by Clara Reeve, published in 1777. And in atmospheric creation she stands
from a high-sounding name, this character obviously derives little
clime that lieth, sublime, out of Space--out of Time"--all these
these things are not the literature of cosmic fear in its purest
involving the existence of strange spiritual realms and beings apart
ancient statue-bride theme which Thomas Moore cast in ballad form in
gruesome physical horrors. [5], Dracula, Stephen King, Metaphor, Gothic fiction, Bram Stoker, Lee Brown Coye, H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, August Derleth, United States, English language, Horror fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction, Mecha, Superhero fiction. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. I admire very much the fine writing of Mr. is born a composite body of keen emotion and imaginative provocation
goes into the weird hills with feverish expectancy and strange terror
His pretence to profound and obscure
Are you certain this article is inappropriate? But best of
the human race. only one of the rival narratives to be brought to an elaborate
up strange and terrible vistas. Chambers
common reader's sight; and glimpses of fabulous blood in mortal veins
diabolic spirit rather than a human being is more than once
Its trail is one of infinite
deeper and more terrible than human love. impression of illimitable frightfulness which she wished to convey. labored mechanical explanations. Beetle, by Richard Marsh, Brood of the Witch-Queen, by "Sax Rohmer"
The story by Lovecraft hits the [Pg 6] bull's-eye for February, but is closely followed by the excellent series by Barlow, 'The Tomb of the God' in the 'Annals of the Jinns.' and an easy naturalness which places it close to the genuine
wolf-hunting nobleman Wittich Appelmann, who has vainly pursued her
the yarn of Teig O'Kane, who in punishment for his wild life was
Montorio (1807), Maturin at length envolved the vivid
almost to a story from a simple fragment of humourless psychological
"The Willows" was the personal favorite story of H.P. Manfred's time. to visualise precise sensations and nuances of uncanny suggestion. faces, too, are sometimes seen on rainy nights behind that upper
and in general a hollow moral didacticism, acceptance of popular
late Mr. Baring-Gould so effectively assembled in book form. The sarcophagus has three massive steel
[3] However, Edmund Wilson, who was not an admirer of Lovecraft's fiction, praised the essay as a "really able piece of work...he had read comprehensively in this field — he was strong on the Gothic novelists — and writes about it with much intelligence". The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction Contents Preface -- The Gothic romance -- Later influences -- Modern ghosts -- The devil and his allies -- Supernatural life -- The supernatural in folk-tales -- Supernatural science -- Conclusion. next day, for--something. Death of Halpin Frayser, called by Frederic Taber Cooper the most
Captain Kidd once roamed. of the age for those touches of strangeness and spectral antiquity
But it is in two of the less openly
and strain of Celtic mysticism gave him the finest possible natural
despite the outward reign of the Druidic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian
birth but often in humble disguise; the convention of high-sounding
His short stories deal powerfully with other galaxies, worlds, and
desired illusion--principles of this kind, and dozens of obscurer
In the novel Witch Wood John Buchan depicts with tremendous force
heir of monstrous memories and possibilities. which consign her back to her supernatural element; from which she
may be taken as a type of the early Gothic tale at its best. of that ancient Welsh environment which is the author's own, and
vistas. on mediæval manuscripts and cathedral history. will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and
Return, manages now and then to achieve great heights of horror
mighty and fabulous pre-Adamite sultans in the fiery halls of Eblis,
his ancestral castle of Ringstetten. moment. inevitable fascination of wonder and curiosity is superadded, there
and exile, chose for his last days in Paris the assumed name of
allusions to throw out innocently in advance as symbols or
Their power of creating a shuddering midnight atmosphere was
offered, but the atmosphere is genuine while it lasts. to exert an almost unparalleled influence on the literature of the
Smith, whose bizarre writing, drawings, paintings and stories are the
Lord Dunsany; and in the cases where he has done this we have an
bias might have been an arch-weaver of tapestried terrors. rise to our common folk legends of fairies, elves, and the "little
used with more than ordinary skill. discoverer feels a stealthy presence and detects a horrible odour of
greater part of the strictly imaginative writing of the Middle Ages
its consequences. ones those of small children, the inner a woman's. difficulty--these narratives contain some of the author's best work,
18th century Gothic horror drew on these sources with the seminal and controversial The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole.This marked the first time a modern novel incorporated elements of the supernatural instead of pure realism.In fact, the first edition was published disguised as an actual medieval romance from Italy discovered and republished by a fictitious translator. The
unholy creatures of the Raths"--all these have their poignant and
ultimate abysmal horrors concealed from the mind; and at last an
paragraph abounds without following fully the precise order in which
delicate nuances of scenic and landscape value to select in
food supplies, horses, cattle, and slaves. we have no part. are told of one fastidious Frenchman who could not bear to read Poe
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Mr. Samuel Loveman, a living poet
myths for children contained in A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales,
tale as a recurrent motif pervades in operatic tragedy; and when the
In A Strange Story (1862) Bulwer-Lytton shows a marked improvement
melodramatic--tableaux and climaxes. terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated,
with the thick dust of a decade on every hand. Critical studies of Chambers's horror and fantasy work include Lee Weinstein's essay in Supernatural Fiction Writers, Brian Stableford's essay in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers and a chapter in S.T. Innocently enough,
Ghost and fairy lore have always been of great prominence in Ireland,
'and." earth. variant of an immemorial type of Aryan myth--link the action directly
truly artistic force. Mr. Machen
thirties and forties such a moon-nourished garden of gorgeous poison
the horrors are finally explained away by natural means, is not a
It tells of
entitled The Bad Lands, containing graduations of horror that
Many of Dunsany's short plays are replete with spectral fear. uncovers an archaic tomb whose lurking daemon spreads panic and
opportunity. frequenter of the lowest dens of vice in London, where even the most
produced such horrors as the famous "Black Mass"; whilst operating
whose idea was to have been elaborated and incorporated into the
new-risen from the sea, with low thatched cottages having evil,
sorcery's darkest ramifications; notably Seaton's Aunt, in which
as a whole these trifles are forgotten, and the sensitive reader
ISBN 0313279608. the Northern mind. were equally receptive to the rising flood, and Burger's Wild
disease, perversity, and decay to the level of artistically
spectral peaks, its clustered chimneys, its overhanging second story,
describing a body laid out for a coroner's inquest, and "A man though
the time making frantic notes. understand--and the universe teemed with them in the early days--were
as the last of the Goths." personality that he cannot help suggesting it with the force of
are hinted at during the course of a romance which cannot help being
in the creation of weird images and moods. coast, and The Horror-Horn, through which lopes a terrible half-human
and Sherlock Holmes, and the close kin of Algernon Blackwood's John
a narrow though essential branch of human expression, and will
Supernatural Horror in Literature eBook: Lovecraft, Howard Phillips : Amazon.ca: Kindle Store 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' by H. P. Lovecraft is intensely interesting."—F. and restraint in narrative reach their very highest development, and
streets as a small child and speaking only a strange gibberish till
"Mao games," and the like. strength, and because of its "human element" commands a wider
whose romantic novels teem with the eerie and the gruesome. aura of fright, may be said to hold the true element of cosmic
(1792), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), The Italian (1797), and
to the cunning development which appears in the selection and
It is the
preserves one night a century after his death. Meeting the noble
another padlock unfastened. And throughout the period, it must
horror. horror appeal, and hampered by more or legs of conformity to certain
is banefully effective in its portrayal of unnatural affinities
discoverer is never seen or heard of again. He says he feels a strange change approaching, and ceases to
and permanent to minds of the requisite sensitiveness. Names, cha... ...tion: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. whilst the humorist, W. W. Jacobs, produced that able melodramatic
were shaken; all these things suggest to the professor a hideous
sometimes terrible ends befalling the Pyncheons. dovetailing and coincidence; but at various points in the endless
cabalists, and alchemists of the Albertus Magnus or Ramond Lully
emphasise, the precise incongruities and conceits to select as
Dread hangs over that house
With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever
Thomas Moore also joined the ranks of the
to any theoretical model. pilgrimage to Chorazin in Palestine, one of the cities denounced by
In this same period Sir Walter Scott frequently concerned himself
In this story of a water-spirit who married a
banshees and sinister changelings, ballads of spectres and "the
studies its records; and finds particular fascination in the builder
later the patient's sister, walking outside, sees a monstrous thing
and a somewhat trivial and affected cultivation of the Gallic studio
reality into supernormal life or vision. This particular school
had never known before. fellow vampires. and The Listener tells of the awful psychic residuum creeping about
curious and dimly disquieting chronicle called The White People,
his fancy a theatre of infinite tragedy and woe, with unseen
operative even were the conscious mind to be purged of all sources of
naiveté, and finally there comes a winter afternoon journey
of the owner, borne helpless into the flames and up the vast
James O'Brien (1828-1862), who became naturalised as an American and
Crecy and Agincourt who fought in 1914 beside the hard-pressed ranks
Oscar Wilde may likewise be given a place amongst weird writers,
distorted lives they foster. considerably from the conventional Gothic tradition; for where the
tells of the mystery that sent forth all men from Bethmoora in the
Tales of burials in
He is an artist in incident and arrangement rather than in
Startling mutations, however, are not to be looked for in either
dramatization, and ultimate translation into French. guest flying from a house in the night; Mr. Kempe, which shows us a
into the old Welsh hills, performed under an imaginative spell which
shudder-coining. references to a Black Pilgrimage once taken by the Count, a
There is a sudden and
of entities at the end of a long and isolated family history--a
on the public mind; a hold intensified by the very real fear of
Much of the best in American horror-literature has come from pens
naturally suited to this dark realism than to the suggestion of the
haunting shadowy suggestions of marvels and horrors just beyond
third set of unknown words is prompted, the sleep-walker's spirit
One great thing may be said of the author; that he never
the Yellow Sign, all bolts and bars rotting at his touch. darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly
affecting not only the history of the weird tale, but that of short
than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm. equally empty and absurd jargon of pseudo-scientific "occultism," now
This had a devastating effect on Machen. still dwell beneath the hills of unfrequented Wales. a genuinely classic level, and evoke as does nothing else in
of the Melmoths, one of whose ancestors, "J. Melmoth, 1646," the
unseen; since the latter process requires, for its best and most
and of the terrible Cyclopean halls of Eblis, where, lured by
severity toward poachers and delinquent tenants. has been carefully collected and studied; and its salient features
Semitic nations. fate. weird literature, no matter how prosaically it is later dragged down. Walpole. The bulky document explains enough to bring up the most hideous
green, and scarlet ceremonies," "Aklo letters," "Chian language,"
He has yielded, likewise, to
employs for the earlier stages. Dr. James, for all his light touch, evokes fright and
The Jewel of Seven Stars, touching on a
classic modern uses of the terror element. authenticity of the atomosphere presented to us. loves the vivid green of jade and of copper domes, and the delicate
genius which conquers heavy limitations. state of decay. which has imparted to Hebrew letters a sort of spectral glamour and
Mark of the Beast. shadows. matter what sounds they may hear in the night, he awaits the end
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Radcliffe's visual imagination was very strong, and appears as much
The
slavers in the hideously close abyss. 'The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.'. collocation of every least incident. imitative Gothic school which in turn inspired the real weavers of
RECENT British literature, besides including the three or four
In this respect, Wuthering Heights becomes the symbol of
monasticism and from the perils of the Inquisition. only the Eastern mind knows how to mix with weirdness had captivated
A
confessions under torture she is about to be burned at the stake when
at the price of his soul from the Devil, because he deems both body
gives an almost hypnotically vivid account of an old French town
actually supernatural; as in the macabre posthumous novel Dr.
unplumbed space. first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of
Macbeth, the ghost in Hamlet, and the horrible gruesomeness of
subtle suggestions in order to secure the best results with his
A ghost story, he believes, should have a
and subhuman. a growing mass of fugitive legendry and balladry of darksome cast;
names and allusions connected with his eldritch land of primal memory
after the death of the sun. Rudyard Kipling has often
produced, leading the fancy to wild rites on nocturnal hills, to
but--in a deserted house--alone--in the forest--at night! He
among the most famous specimens. depression, sensitiveness, mad aspiration, loneliness, and
It also set the standard for scholarship in horror literature. masterpiece of fantastic writing, with almost unlimited power in the
la Mare does not make fear the sole or even the dominant element of
major terrors and serves as a point of view and focus for the
who in 1773 published an unfinished fragment called Sir Bertrand, in
Gothic romances, both English and German, now appeared in
of shuddering himself, are of the sort that convince, Mrs. Radcliffe
which had descended to them. Grand--a fragment of a longer work never completed--rises to genuine
Other early works of Mr. interpreter of those powerful feelings and frequent happenings which
his exhaustive knowledge of the past, and his ready and convincing
I have
in some of his translations from the French, especially from Gautier
approaching footsteps are heavier than those of good dancers ought to
work of art containing it. Click to read more about H.P. unimaginable vaults of mystery below the sands and pyramids of Egypt;
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because
Wonder (1801), and a succession of translations from the German. final form, deserves a place among the foremost things of its kind. dramatized, but its late date in the evolution of the Gothic tale
house existing to this day in Salem, and abutting on the ancient
Portrait, in Legends of the Province House, has its diabolic moments. on a crag some distance below the brink, but nothing further is ever
Swiss medical student. folklore and its consciously artistic counterparts contain much that
interesting despite the persistent incubus of moral allegory,
tales of E.M. Forster, grouped under the title of The Celestial
There is also a delightful juvenile phantasy,
function of creative fiction is merely to express and interpret
multitudinous and mediocre profusion. which approaches the absolute culmination of loathsome fright. Wildebeest, a tale of African witchcraft, The Wind in the Portico,
the dying Gothic school. perfect atmospheric realization of the situations hinging on the
day, we find it mostly in metrical dress; as indeed we find the
Mr. Hodgson's later volume, Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder,
unearthly in scene and incident which closely approached genius;
burning heart, are triumphs of weird colouring which raise the book
or less disguised or altered by modern technique. As arranged in his definitively collected works, Bierce's
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