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This is a lively and opinionated historical essay on supernatural literature written during 1924 through 1927. Indispensable to horror fans (even for those uninterested in
H. P. Lovecraft's fiction) for its superb plot summaries and subjective assessments, the book is a short history of horror from folk tales, ballads and myths of the Middle Ages, through the Gothic novel, Victorian ghost story, and American "pulp" writers. It is especially good on
Edgar Allan Poe,
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Arthur Machen, and
William Hope Hodgson, and includes Lovecraft's views on what makes a good horror story.
E. F. Bleiler, renowned scholar of supernatural fiction, provides the introduction.
Kurzbeschreibung
Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books.<BR>