Novel: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Novel: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. Suburban gothic is a mid and late twentieth-century "subgenre of the wider American Gothic tradition which dramatises anxieties arising from the mass urbanisation of the United States and usually features suburban settings, preoccupations and protagonists." (Murphy, p.20) Novels: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Story Collection: The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Jeff VanderMeer. Novel: Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber. Short text: "History of the Necronomicon" by H.P. Novel: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Study: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H.P. Blavatsky, a co-founder of the Theosophy Society. Story Collection: Nightmare Tales by Helena P. "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft defined cosmic and weird tales as "the creation of a 'certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread' and the suspension, if not violation, of 'fixed laws of nature'." (Cardin, p.282)
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