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“Therefore we must judge a weird tale not by the author’s intent, or by the mere mechanics of the plot; but by the emotional level which it attains at its least mundane point.”

Arguing that a weird tale succeeds through the feeling it produces · Essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature

About Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

20 August 1890–15 March 1937

In the shadowed streets of Providence, Rhode Island, where colonial spires pierced the New England sky like fingers reaching toward indifferent stars, Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890. This unassuming city, with its cobblestone lanes and whispering ghosts of history, would become both cradle and…

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