Supernatural Horror in Literature

Supernatural Horror in Literature  (1927)  by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 1927. Published 1938.

• Introduction
• The Dawn of the Horror-Tale
• The Early Gothic Novel
• The Apex of Gothic Romance
• The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
• Spectral Literature on the Continent
• Edgar Allan Poe
• The Weird Tradition in America
• The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
• The Modern Masters

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