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Old 12-22-2013, 09:32 PM
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Actually shadyJ, it might be to your advantage to locate a copy of Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror In Literature" if you're truly interested in stories, not necessarily Lovecraft's, in which "unspeakable and indescribable horror" play a major role. Why? The type of story he was mostly concerned with wasn't old school Gothic brandishing "secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule", but what he called "the true weird tale." This "literature of cosmic fear in its purest form", to which I believe Lovecraft himself aspired in his own fiction, Cthulhu Mythos not excepted, is distinguished by "a certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces." Consulting his essay may yield much easily steered down your own personal dark alley. If not, I sincerely apologize.
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