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H. P. Lovecraft's stories concentrate on the unknown, a primary anomaly not unlike those we may find in scientific discourse. The texts are utterly ambiguous and advocate a paradox where knowledge is both successful and dysfunctional. At the edges of conceptual structures Lovecraftian language can say the unsayable and write the unwritable by applying negation, silence, and metonymy, but most of all metaphor-all conjoined in the ecstasy of exc...

Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore the varied output of Holdstock by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spaciotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of ...