"Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft (1925-27)

This is just all the chapters put together into one upload. If you've been following along the whole time, there is nothing new to hear here.

Chapters:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:10:24 - The Dawn of the Horror-Tale
0:21:15 - The Early Gothic Novel
0:36:47 - The Apex of Gothic Romance
0:49:45 - The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
1:09:57 - Spectral Literature on the Continent
1:24:40 - Edgar Allan Poe
1:42:30 - The Weird Tradition in America
2:17:24 - The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
2:41:20 - The Modern Masters

Given the length of this work, I recorded it over the course of a week. If you find the quality of voice changes with a new chapter, or a change in pacing or volume or other differences, that's because it's a new day, and that frequently happens with my voice for whatever reason. Chapter 9 is particularly noticeable...

Many of the stories Lovecraft mentions he gives spoilers for. Although these works are at at least a century old, or even older, many of them are no longer common fodder for most high school or college courses any more, so if you hear a story mentioned that is on your reading list, and don't want it spoiled, you'll need to skip ahead a bit to the next topic.

Some of Lovecraft's racial views poke through a bit here and there in this one, but mostly just in the early chapters. Ugh.

And yes, I did have some trouble with a few of the non-English names. Sue me :-P

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: Photo of Lovecraft from 1934.

Chapter 2: Folded-out engraving showing witches' sabbat, by Laurent Bordelon (1710), from the University of Glasgow Library, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 3: Painting of Horace Walpole by John Giles Eccardt (1754). And a portrait of Ann Radcliffe.

Chapter 4: Painting of Matthew Gregory Lewis, by George Lethbridge Saunders. And a sketch of Charles Robert Maturin, by D.G. Brocas in 1819.

Chapter 5: A painting of William Beckford, by Joshua Reynolds in 1782. And Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell, circa 1840. And Robert Bulwer-Lytton, by Nadar in 1900. And a crop showing Emily Brontë from a portrait of her with her sisters done by her brother Patrick, no later than 1848.

Chapter 6: Painting of Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué, circa 1815. And a sketch of Wilhelm Meinhold, from 1846. And a photo of Guy de Maupassant, by Nadar, circa 1888. And a photo of a Kabbalististic prayer book from Italy, 1803, in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, taken by Dieter Hofer and used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).

Chapter 7: Photo of Edgar Allan Poe, circia 1849.

Chapter 8: A painting of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Charles Osgood in 1840. And a sketch of Fitz-James O'Brien, by William Winter in 1881. And a photo of Ambrose Bierce from 1892. Anda photo of F Marion Crawford in 1903. And a photo of Leonard Cline. And a photo of Robert W. Chambers from 1903. And a photo of Clark Ashton Smith from 1912.

Chapter 9: Photo of Rudyard Kipling, from 1895. Lafcadio Hearn, in 1889 by Frederick Gutekunst. Photo of Oscar Wilde, by Napoleon Sarony, circa 1882. Matthew Phipps Shiel before 1920. And a photo of Bram Stoker, circa 1906. And a photo of John Buchan taken in 1935. And a photo of Walter de la Mare, by Lady Ottoline Morrell, taken in 1924. And William Hope Hodgson. And a photo of William Butler Yeats, by Alice Broughton in 1903.

Chapter 10: Photo of Arthur Machen, by E.O. Hoppé, circa 1905. And a photo of Algernon Blackwood, no later than 1916. And a photo of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. And a photo of Montague Rhodes James, circa 1900. And back to Lovecraft himself.

To follow along: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx