Horror literature and suicide
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suicide, horror literature, Howard Philips Lovecraft, gothic, Robert H. BarlowAbstract
The first part of this article discusses suicide as motif and theme in horror literature and the mythologizing of real suicides by horror authors from the medieval era onwards. The second part analyses suicides by gentlemen in «The Great God Pan» by Arthur Machen, with a particular focus on how these suicides by hanging (with noose) have an antique (Greek) connection and are femininely coded. Finally, part three presents a reading of a probable intertext on mysticism and (horror) literature from «The Poetic Principle» by E A Poe over H P Lovecraft and «The Night Ocean», written by Lovecraft's literary executor R H Barlow.
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