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Lovecraft

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Love·craft  (lvkrft), H(oward) P(hillips) 1890-1937.
American writer of fantasy and horror tales, collected in The Outsider and Others (1939), Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943), and Marginalia (1944).


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Extending outwards on that HP Lovecraft school, Clark Ashton Smith, even earlier than that.
Lovecraft concepts and, when all else fails, a load of zombies.
Burke's recognition of the appeal of the Sublime helps to explain the continuing appreciation of readers, including ones who possess wide literary experience, for writers of popular, even pulp, Romanticism, such as Haggard, Hodgson, Lovecraft, and countless other writers of fantasy and science fiction--and, moreover, persuades us that what actually draws readers to some works of admittedly high literary quality may often include the unacknowledged ingredient of the Sublime.
 
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