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Horror/Scary: September 13, 2017 Issue [#8495]

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Horror/Scary


 This week: Mythos of the Unknowable
  Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

Greetings, and welcome to this week's edition of the WDC Horror/Scary Newsletter. Join in the search for that which lurks just past the corner of your eye.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
 (Edgar Alan Poe}

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear,
and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is
fear of the unknown."
(H.P. Lovecraft)


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Letter from the editor

Greetings,

         We are not alone in this universe. We know that, and one writer, in particular, has focused our attention and, along with the Master, (Mr. Poe, of course), has created visions horrific that have spawned generations of gelatinous, tentacled, flesh-eating creatures that humans cannot ever completely annihilate and must, however, engage.

         H.P. Lovecraft refined this style of story-telling into his own mythos that involved a set of supernatural, pre-human and extraterrestrial elements. He took some of the atmosphere from Poe, and evoked for his readers a sense that ordinary life was a thin shell over a reality which was so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person.

         Lovecraft's work was also insular, focusing on the rural feel of his home turf in New England, and those following in his footsteps continue to maintain the sense of things humans were not meant to know, although they are closer to the surface of ordinary life outside cities, but also, today, are found in crowded urban mean streets. Check out "The Horror at Red Hook" by way of example.

         What we find as recurring themes in Lovecraftian horror are:

         *Bullet* A sense of misanthropy. The focus is not on characterization of humans, who occupy but a small place in the vast universe of alien, often superior, beings.

         *Bulletv* A preoccupation with gelatinous or non-corporeal bodies. In place of blood and bone and corpses we find gelatinous substances, such as slime and ooze either external or from within a corporeal body. (Consider if you will, "The Blob.")

         *Bulleto* Lovecraftian heroes are detatched, isolated individuals, often scholars or educators of some kind.

         *Bulletgr* Helplessness and hopelessness reverberate throughout the story. The 'heroes' may cause the maleficent forces some damage, but the victory is temporary, and the price paid is high. The heroes and subjects are unable to just run from the extra-terrestrial beings, but are driven to fight or try to subdue or, perhaps, understand it, to their detriment.

         *Bulletp* The characters never completely understand what's happening to them, or what's going on about them, though they try. They remain vulnerable and, again, compelled ot continue the quest for understanding.

         Lovecraftian horror has become a standard in literature of horror, incorporating elements of fantasy, adventure, history, and mystery. We will look further at its evolution, but 'till the next time, read on for some good chillers by members of our Community and see if you are also 'compelled' to follow suit with a story or verse of your own.

Write On !
Kate *Frog*




Editor's Picks

Check out some of the denizens of 'otherworlds' envisioned by members of our Community and related in prose and verse ~ once you've entered, let them know if you, also, were compelled to stay

 Inhuman Haunt Open in new Window. (ASR)
Four lads enter a haunted house.
#2062175 by Jatog the Green Author IconMail Icon


 Ghosts Of Clockwork Gods Open in new Window. (E)
A world of untold horrors and unimaginable machines. It's Lovecraft meets Steampunk!
#2035903 by WritingWalter Author IconMail Icon


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 Aquilus Open in new Window. (13+)
A lovecraftian horror about a Roman Legate.
#1928100 by Smokey Author IconMail Icon


 Tablet Magick Open in new Window. (18+)
Magick unleashes an evil banished since before man first walked the earth.
#1814305 by Jimminy Jingle! Author IconMail Icon


 
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The industrial park horror Open in new Window. (13+)
Flash fiction Lovecraftian horror in 720 words.
#1756486 by Danger Mouse Author IconMail Icon


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House of Past Horror Open in new Window. (ASR)
A place to see the horror of the Blob.
#2063360 by Teargen Author IconMail Icon


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A Terrifying Contest Of Horror And Three Time Quill Award Winner!
#2020439 by Lilli Author IconMail Icon





 
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         I thank you for this brief respite in the relative safety of your home ~ don't look too closely at the floorboards, you don't know what you will find beyond the creak and, what's that shiny spot inbetween.

Until we next meet,
         be wary of that which lurks
         just past the corner of your eye,
         there's something there, waiting
         for a mortal to stop on by *Shock2*

Write On!
Kate
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