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09-18-2010, 09:05 AM
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Elf Lord
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Only info I've seen says that Lovecraft wasn't published in Britain until 1951- but that doesn't mean the whole Weird Tales gang was unknown.
Anyway, there were lots of precedents to Lovecraft in the "unspeakable horror" and Elder Gods vein, going back through Dunsany all the way to back to William Beckford's "Vathek" and other gothic stories. Here's a review of a book that seems to deal with the subject: "The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works" http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Mi...s.-a0200344639
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