ENGL 2706Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lovecraftian Horror, Michel Houellebecq, Weird Fiction

• School: Trent University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2706Y
• Professor: Kelly Mc Guire

Document Summary

Last time: fantasy and the unconscious (jungian shadow) as source of horror. Cthulhu: dreams, mysticism, cult of worship, source of archetypes in the. The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. The aperture was black with a darkness almost material. The odour arising from the newly opened depths was intolerable, and at length the quick-eared hawkins thought he heard a nasty, slopping sound down there. Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when it lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness . Ethnocentrism; anglicism; malevolent, uncivilized, underclass influenced by inhuman forces. Malevolent, uncivilized, underclass influenced by inhuman forces. Native unrest in india ; voodoo orgies in haiti ; african outposts; tribes in. Philippines; hysterical levantines in ny ; west of ireland ; painters" eskimos;