H.P. Lovecraft's Selection of British & Irish Horror [with links]
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Here are all the British and Irish authors recommended by H.P. Lovecraft in "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (especially from Section IX - "The Weird Tradition in the British Isles", but I've tried to pick out the key references from the rest as well).
All links go to free, legal online reading:
E.F. Benson - "The Man Who Went Too Far", "The Face", Visible and Invisible (esp. "Negotiam Perambulans" and "The Horror-Horn")
Algernon Blackwood - "The Willows", "An Episode in a Lodging House", "The Listener", Incredible Adentures, John Silence, Jimbo, The Centaur
Gerald Bliss - The Door of the Unreal
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Robert Browning - Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
John Buchan - Witch Wood, "The Green Wildebeest", "The Wind in the Portico", "Skule Skerry"
Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Zanoni, A Strange Story
Walter de la Mare - The Return, "Seaton's Aunt", "The Tree", "Out of the Deep", "A Recluse" "Mr. Kempe", "All-Hallows", The Listeners
Daniel Defoe - "A Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal"
A.C. Doyle - "The Captain of the Pole-Star", "Lot No. 249"
H.B. Drake - "The Shadowy Thing"
Lord Dunsany - The Book of Wonder, A Dreamer's Tales, The Gods of the Mountain, The Laughter of the Gods, The Queen's Enemies
Mrs. H.D. Everett - "The Death Mask"
E.M. Forster - The Celestial Omnibus (esp. "only one, dealing with a glimpse of Pan and his aura of fright, may be said to hold the true element of cosmic horror")
William Godwin - St Leon
Sir H Rider Haggard - She
L. P. Hartley - "A Visitor from Down Under"
Lafcadio Hearn - Fantastics, Kwaidan, translations of Gautier, Temptation of St. Anthony (from Flaubert)
William Hope Hodgson - The Boats of the Glen Carrig, The House on the Borderland, The Ghost Pirates, The Night Land, Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder
Clemence Housman - The Were-wolf
W.W. Jacobs - "The Monkey's Paw"
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
M.R. James - Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious, The Five Jars
Rudyard Kipling - "The Phantom Rickshaw", "The Finest Story in the World", "The Recrudescence [Return] of Imray", "The Mark of the Beast"
Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Monk
George MacDonald - Lilith
Arthur Machen - Chronicle of Clemendy, The Hill of Dreams, "The Great God Pan", "The White People", The Three Imposters, "The Red Hand", "The Shining Pyramid", The Terror, The Great Return, "The Bowmen"
Richard Marsh - The Beetle
Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
John Metcalfe - The Smoking Leg (esp. "The Bad Lands")
Thomas Moore - The Epicurean
Thomas Preskett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre
Ann Radcliffe - The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, A Sicilian Romance, The Romance of the Forest, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Italian, Gaston de Blondeville
Arthur Ransome - "The Elixir of Life"
Sir Walter Scott - Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Sax Rohmer - Brood of the Witch-Queen
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, The Last Man
Matthew Phipps Shiel - "Xelucha", "The House of Sounds", The Purple Cloud
May Sinclair - Uncanny Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson - “Markheim”, “The Body-Snatcher”, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker - The Lair of the White Worm, The Jewel of Seven Stars, Dracula
H. R. Wakefield - They Return at Evening, Others Who Returned (esp. "The Red Lodge", "He Cometh and He Passeth By", "And He Shall Sing", "The Cairn", "Look Up There", "Blind Man's Buff" and "The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster")
Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
Hugh Walpole - "Mrs. Lunt"
H.G. Wells - "The Ghost of Fear" [The Red Room], Thirty Strange Stories
Oscar Wilde - "certain of his exquisite fairy tales", Picture of Dorian Gray
Francis Brett Young - Cold Harbour
No specific work referenced:
"A. E.," William Carleton, Padraic Colum, Joseph Conrad, T. Crofton Croker, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, James Stephens, J. M. Synge, Lady Wilde, W.B. Yeats