Length3h 15m
About this audiobook
With incisive power, Lovecraft here formulates the aesthetics of supernatural horror & summarises the range of its literary expression from primitive folklore to the tales of his own 20th-century masters. (Goodreads)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length3 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I. Introduction
2II. The Dawn of the Horror Tale
3III. The Early Gothic Novel
4IV. The Apex of Gothic Romance
5V. The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
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6VI. Spectral Literature on the Continent
7VII. Edgar Allan Poe
8VIII. The Weird Tradition in America
9IX. The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
10X. The Modern Masters
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