Supernatural Horror in Literature
H. P. Lovecraft
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. The author follows the development of the weird fiction genre, starting from Antiquity until the first decades of the 20th century and concludes by in-depth description of four writers whom he considers “Modern Masters” (Summary by Piotr Nater and Wikipedia)
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Chapters
| Introduction | 9:48 |
| The Dawn of the Horror Tale | 10:11 |
| The Early Gothic Novel | 14:00 |
| The Apex of Gothic Romance | 11:44 |
| The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction | 18:15 |
| Spectral Literature on the Continent | 13:59 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 16:15 |
| The Weird Tradition in America | 31:34 |
| The Weird Tradition in the British Isles | 22:23 |
| The Modern Masters 1 | 23:12 |
| The Modern Masters 2 | 19:04 |
Reviews
E.S.L. Readers
Unicorn
Mr. Nater is a fine reader but his accent distracts me from the narrative. It does not work for American Literature. Intonation and pronunciation is often wrong. Why did he pick my favourite writer and not one from his own Literary Culture. He would do an excellent job on the great Russian novels, but his reading is incorrect for Lovecraft. I am a huge fan of Librivox - please see my other reviews. Might I respectfully suggest a redo of Pieter's work for real die hard fans of this author. Would I ever love to hear these by Martin Retole or Allan Wayman - they really have a feel for these works and increase understanding of Atmosphere and descriptive language. Thanks to Librivox for the great work you do ! U R amazing.
Good text/ lousy reader
A LibriVox Listener
Insightful, though overly detailed at some points, this is a great read for anyone interested in horror. The reader, on the other hand, is not a native English speaker and so has a difficult accent and frequently mispronounces words and names. The audio in turn becomes quite horrific because of this.
poor voice of reader
Capricorn - why would u select a reader of English who has a strong Northern Eu…
Lousy read it's hard to follow his many pronunciation errors, please please redo!