jonathan l howard carter and lovecraft book 3

Chapman Miske subsequently couched as a story after Lovecraft's death. Instead I'm going to go for another oddity 'The Thing in the Moonlight.' This is actually a chunk from one of Lovecraft's letters detailing a nightmare he'd experienced that J. It's also apparently the last Lovecraft wrote.įor my final choice I was going to go for 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,' because I'm fond of the Dreamlands, or perhaps 'The Horror in the Museum' (a story Lovecraft nominally revised but essentially ghostwrote for Hazel Heald) since it was the first Lovecraft story I ever read. Despite its cheerfully tit-for-tat origin, it's a flat-out good horror story. The protagonist of 'The Haunter of the Dark' is one 'Robert Blake,' and he doesn't fare so well either. 'The Haunter of the Dark.' This was Lovecraft's good-humoured riposte to Robert Bloch's 'The Shambler from the Stars,' in which Bloch killed off a protagonist who was obviously modelled on Lovecraft. More so than any other, this is the one that defines his take on what 'cosmic horror' is really all about. I like its slightly unusual structure, and especially the very big ideas it contains. 'The Call of Cthulhu.' Perhaps an obvious choice, but it's probably his best known story because it deserves to be.

After some thought, I've decided on the following. Loads and loads more than that, really, but that's enough to be getting on with.

From ancient to modern, I'd suggest 'The Bride of Frankenstein,' 'The Dead of Night,' 'Night of the Demon,' 'The Innocents,' 'The Haunting,' my favourite four Hammers ('The Plague of the Zombies,' 'The Devil Rides Out,' 'Quatermass and the Pit,' and 'Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter), 'The Company of Wolves,' 'Re-Animator' (Yes, that's Lovecraftian, but tremendous fun), Svankmajer's 'Alice' (not actually a horror film per se, but nightmarish in places and a film I think anyone with a scrap of imagination should see) and then bang up to date with 'Crimson Peak,' which is the epitome of gothic.

Given he also wrote the Mapp & Lucia novels, one can only assume his mother was startled by a good-looking middle-aged woman while he was in the womb.įor film, my goodness, that's a long list. M.R.James, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Edith Wharton, and E.F.Benson, even if the lattermost has this odd horror of good-looking middle-aged women. For literary horror, I always support the classics. Alas I've only got around to answering these last questions after the event.

Jonathan l howard carter and lovecraft book 3