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The terror of reality was the true horror for H P Lovecraft | Aeon Essays

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The Night (1908) by Léon Spilliaert. Courtesy Vincent Everarts/Collection of the Belgian State, in deposit at Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels by Sam Woodward + BIO The Night (1908) by Léon Spilliaert. Courtesy Vincent Everarts/Collection of the Belgian State, in deposit at Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels has a BA and an MPhil in Classics from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently undertaking a DPhil (PhD) in classical languages and literature at the University of Oxford, UK. Edited byCameron Allan McKean In July 1917, Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island wrote a short story called ‘Dagon’. ‘If you don’t care for this,’ he wrote to one editor, ‘you won’t care for anything of mine.’ In the tale, a sailor lost at sea in a wooden rowboat finds himself abruptly stranded on a vast stretch of seabed that had risen to the surface, pushed up by volcanic activity. As the territory of marine muck hardens in the sun, the sailor begins to walk across it, heading westward towards a d

In July 1917, Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island wrote a short story called ‘Dagon’. ‘If you don’t care for this,’ he wrote to one editor, ‘you won’t care for anything of mine.’ In the tale, a sailor lost at sea in a wooden rowboat finds himself abruptly stranded on a vast stretch of seabed that had risen to the surface, pushed up by volcanic activity. As the territory of marine muck hardens in the sun, the sailor begins to walk across it, heading westward towards a distant hummock. But after days of walking, he realises the knoll is in fact a high hill. Camping in its…

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