Supernatural Horror in Literature

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(first published 1927)

H.P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937)
Language: English

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“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. The author follows the development of the weird fiction genre, starting from Antiquity until the first decades of the 20th century and concludes by in-depth description of four writers whom he considers “Modern Masters” (Summary by Piotr Nater and Wikipedia)

Total running time: 3:10:05 – Read in English by Piotr Nater

01 – Introduction – 0:09:48
02 – The Dawn of the Horror Tale – 0:10:11
03 – The Early Gothic Novel – 0:14:00
04 – The Apex of Gothic Romance – 0:11:44
05 – The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction – 0:18:15
06 – Spectral Literature on the Continent – 0:13:59
07 – Edgar Allan Poe – 0:16:15
08 – The Weird Tradition in America – 0:31:34
09 – The Weird Tradition in the British Isles – 0:22:23
10 – The Modern Masters 1 – 0:23:12
11 – The Modern Masters 2 – 0:19:04

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Catalogued 16. May 2012