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Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (1927)

“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay by the celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. It was first published in 1927 in the one-shot [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Essays

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)

The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Poetry

An End for the ‘Poe Toaster’

In the year 1949, exactly a century after the tragic, unsolved, death of author Edgar Allan Poe, a tradition began at his Baltimore gravesite that would eventually draw the attention of not only the press, but thousands of fans who [...]

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