New York, NY: Hippocampus Press įirst edition (2000, ISBN 0-967, 172 pages), The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature, By H.P. The Weird Tradition in the British Isles.This latest edition will be invaluable both to devotees of Lovecraft and to The entire volume has also been redesigned for ease of reading and

In addition, Joshi has supplied aĬomprehensive bibliography of all the authors and works discussed in the essay, with referencesįor this new edition, Joshi has exhaustively revised and updated the bibliography andĪlso revamped the notes to bring the book in line with the most up-to-date scholarship on Joshi has supplied detailed commentary on many points. In this annotated edition of Lovecraft’s seminal work, acclaimed Lovecraft scholar S.T. Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, and M.R. Importance of Edgar Allan Poe, the work of such leading figures as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambroseīierce, and William Hope Hodgson, and the four “modern masters”-Arthur Machen, In the Renaissance, the first Gothic novels of the late 18th century, the revolutionary With instances of weirdness in ancient literature, Lovecraft proceeds to discuss horror writing Product of both a keen critical analyst and a working practitioner in the field, the essayĪffords unique insights into the nature, development, and history of the weird tale. Widely recognized as the finest historical survey of horror literature ever written.

Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature, first published in 1927, is Edited, with Introduction and Commentary, by S.T.

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