Incipit
Supernatural Horror in Literature By H. P. Lovecraft I. Introduction The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. Against it are discharged all the shafts of a materialistic sophistication which clings to frequently felt emotions and external events, and of a naively insipid idealism which deprecates the æsthetic motive and calls for a didactic li …
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Personnages — Walter Gilman (2), Robert Blake (1)
Créatures — Les Goules (2)
Lieux — Salem (6), L’Antarctique (1)
Entourage — Clark Ashton Smith (1), Frank Belknap Long (1)