Suprnatural Horror in Literature V. II-Continuing where Lovecraft left off

[Lobolover]

A sort of Project I have in mind-to report tales and stories would probably fit the bil HPL set in his SHiL and which either came ater he wrote it,which he missed or which he forgot to add in the final version.

My list,curently:

Ralph Adams Cram

Besides "The dead valley",from SHiL,I and J.D. would advise:

* In Kopfsberg Keep

* No 252 Rue Le M. Prince

William Hope Hodgson

Two marvelous tales HPL would have had to add,had he read them:

* The Voice in the Night

* The Tropical Horror

Barry Pain

HPL wished to include a talk about Pain's "The Undying thing" into SHiL,but forgot.Will say later.

* The Moon Slave

* Diary of a God

* The Bottom of the Gulf

Walter de La Mare

* ABO

Edward Lucas White

* Amina

E.F.Benson

* Caterpillars

* The Thing in the Hall

 

[j d worthington]

With some of the later writers, I'd also strongly suggest Russell Kirk, certainly one of the great modern exponents of the ghostly tale. Here is a bit about his fiction:

Russell Kirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


I'd also have added "Q", or Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, to the list. Though often dealing with traditional subject-matter, Q brought to his tales a thorough knowledge of original ballad sources and folklore, giving a depth and feeling of genuineness to his spectral works which has kept them alive for nearly a century.

Also, Ex-Private X (A. M. Burrage) deserves a mention for various tales of the macabre; being a prime favorite of many anthologists in the field -- and quite justly.

A M Burrage

Though Lovecraft was not impressed with W. C. Morrow, I'd say this is one case in which I disagree with him. Morrow was one of the West Coast writers group which included Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, and (for a time at least) Mark Twain. Albeit crude at times, several of his tales well deserve to be read by any horror fan. "The Monster-Maker", again, has long been a favorite among anthologists, and forms the title for a recent collection of his best tales, edited by S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz:

THE MONSTER MAKER AND OTHER STORIES - W.C. Morrow

Another whom Lovecraft didn't include in his essay (though he was aware of him) was Robert S. Hichens, author of that particularly nasty little ghostly tale, "How Love Came to Professor Guildea", which demonstrates how utter, mindless devotion can be one of the most terrifying things of all.... There is a recent collection of some of Hichens' best tales out, but many of them are also available online.

THE RETURN OF THE SOUL AND OTHER STORIES - by Robert Hichens

Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg

Robert Hichens' Short Stories

By no means all of Hichens' tales are of the weird or supernatural kind, but those he did do in this field are well worth looking into.

 

[Lobolover]

Hmm.I think it best that,if I may dare ask,you could help me in this-I knwo o no one who is beter.Also,it could be good to list the individual stories,because HPL sometimes listing only authors,saying "some of his stories are good" can eb QUITE Irksome for a "Student".

 

[Lobolover]

Also,because of some mad,unheard of reason,I cant edit my OWN,first post-so Ill probably be forced to multi-posting in the future.

Anyway-adding to the list,though I CANT add it in any way,is "The Undying thing" from Pain.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Also,because of some mad,unheard of reason,I cant edit my OWN,first post-so Ill probably be forced to multi-posting in the future.

Nope, the ability to edit a post expires after a certain period of time.

Rather than doing a lot of multi-posting, a better idea is to be sure that you've said everything you want to say in the way you want to say it before you hit send. Of course, this isn't always possible.

But editing something in or out after a lot of people have already responded to a post can make for a lot of confusion. Hence the time limit.

 

[j d worthington]

Hmm.I think it best that,if I may dare ask,you could help me in this-I knwo o no one who is beter.Also,it could be good to list the individual stories,because HPL sometimes listing only authors,saying "some of his stories are good" can eb QUITE Irksome for a "Student".

With Lovecraft doing so, I'd say it was because he was pointing out trends these writers were a part of, rather than choosing specific works for praise. Hence the lists at the beginning and ending of his chapter on "The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction" (which lists are spot on, frankly, and had he picked out specific tales the point he was making would have quickly become lost), as well as that at the end of "The Weird Tradition in the British Isles" (the list of the Anglo-Irish writers of the Celtic Renaissance).

However, I will attempt in future to designate particular tales, but also (where germane) indicate whether or not a certain writer is a part of a traditional stream or trend in weird literature overall....

 

[Lobolover]

Thats good.

Teresa-if this is a list ,amounting to hundreds of hours of rading,I cant readily wait the next 5-7 years before posting it,can I ?

 

[Extollager]

Back in July 2008, JDW mentioned Russell Kirk's ghostly stories. This brought to mind my interview with Kirk in 1985. He looked like an undersized but incorruptible country judge and was a pleasure to talk with. His stories are a mixed bag, I think; "Behind the Stumps" is a fine traditional ghost story; worth more than one reading are "Sorworth Place," "The Princess of All Lands," "'There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding,'" which won a World Fantasy Award. I could not read Lord of the Hollow Dark.

 

[Extollager]

If I were to choose one book published since his death for HPL to consider for a revised Supernatural Horror in Literature, I would suggest Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, which in its way is a successful attempt to write a Lovecraftian story minus the outgrown paraphernalia typical of "Lovecraftian" efforts.

I'm not referring to the movie, which hasn't aged very well.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
The Dwellers in The Mirage by Abraham Merrit
The Trail of Cthulhu by August Derleth