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From Night Shade Books: The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (ISBN 1-892389-16-9) Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei (ISBN 1-892389-49-5) Lovecraft Letters Volume 2: Letters from New York (ISBN 1-892389-37-1) From Ohio University Press:
The romantic love that is so exalted throughout the novel is forbidden by Tita's mother in order to blindly enforce the tradition that the youngest daughter be her mother's chaste guardian. However, the traditional etiquette enforced by Mama Elena is defied progressively throughout the novel.
Alternative names include Bōrei (亡霊), meaning ruined or departed spirit, Shiryō (死霊), meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing Yōkai (妖怪) or Obake (お化け). Like their Western counterparts, they are thought to be spirits barred from a peaceful afterlife .
A recurring theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of humanity in the face of the cosmic horrors that exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the "Great Old Ones": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a death-like sleep.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV by Henry Fuseli (1789). Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology, also spectral studies, spectralities, or the spectral turn) is a range of ideas referring to the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past, as in the manner of a ghost.
H. P. Lovecraft, writer and creator of cosmicism.. Cosmicism is American author H. P. Lovecraft's name for the literary philosophy he developed and used for his fiction. [1] [2] Lovecraft was a writer of horror stories that involve occult phenomena like astral possession and alien miscegenation, and the themes of his fiction over time contributed to the development of this philosophy.
The overlap between religion and ghostlore can be seen in the many rituals, myths, and stories that involve interactions with the spirit world. [68] [23] [69] [70] [71] In many religions, there is a belief in an afterlife, where the soul or spirit of a person continues to exist after death. [72]
Robert M. Price has also used the title "The Burrower Beneath" for a story set in the Eibonic mythos of Clark Ashton Smith—see Price's anthology The Book of Eibon (Chaosium, 2002). Leigh Blackmore 's poem "The Conjuration" (in his collection Spores from Sharnoth and Other Madnesses , P'rea Press, 2008) was inspired by the title "The Feaster ...