Poe, Edgar Allan

Poe, Edgar Allan
   (18091849),
   American author and predominant literary influence on HPL, who read him beginning at the age of eight. Poe pioneered the short story, the short horror tale, and the detective story; he was also an important poet, critic, and reviewer. In 1916 HPL referred to Poe asmy God of Fiction” ( SL1.20); only the subsequent influence of Lord Dunsany and Arthur Machen diluted the Poe influence on HPLs early work. As late as 1929 HPL was lamenting:There are myPoepieces & myDunsanypiecesbut alaswhere are anyLovecraftpieces?” ( SL2.315, whereanyis misprinted asmy”). HPLsThe Outsiderdraws onBereniceandThe Masque of the Red Death”; “The Houndis very Poesque in style; “The Rats in the Wallsshows the influence ofThe Fall of the House of Usher”; “Cool Airwas perhaps influenced byFacts in the Case of M.Valdemar,” although HPL believed MachensNovel of the White Powderto be a more central influence. At the Mountains of Madness draws slightly upon The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). Poes poetry also influenced HPL (mostly in terms of metrical schemes) in such poems asNemesis,” “The City,” “The House,” “The Eidolon,” “The Nightmare Lake,” “Despair,” “Nathicana,” and others. HPL echoes Poes doctrine of the unity of effect inSupernatural Horror in Literatureand exemplifies it in his tales. HPL saw Poe as the central figure in the development of horror fiction, modifying the moribund Gothic conventions so that they became capable of revealing psychological realities; accordingly, he devoted a substantial chapter to Poe inSupernatural Horror in Literature.” HPL also wroteHomes and Shrines of Poe,” a discursive survey of Poes residences in Virginia, Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere (nearly all of which he had visited in person), for Hyman Bradofskys Californian(Winter 1934). In August 1936, he wrote an acrosticsonneton Poes name, titling it (in the original ms.) “In a Sequesterd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walkd” (first published in Science-Fantasy Correspondent,MarchApril 1937).
   See T.O.Mabbott, “Lovecraft as a Student of Poe,” Fresco8, No. 3 (Spring 1958): 3739; Robert Bloch, “Poe and Lovecraft” (1973; rpt. FDOC); Dirk W. Mosig, “Poe, Hawthorne and Lovecraft: Variations on a Theme of Panic,” Romantist Nos. 45 (198081): 4345; Robert M.Price, “Lovecraft andLigeia,’LS No. 31 (Fall 1994): 1517.

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