" 'Silet per diem universus, nec sine horrore secretus est; lucet nocturnis ignibus, chorus Aegipanum undique personatur: audiuntur et cantus tibiarum, et tinnitus cymbalorum per oram maritimam.'
On the following pages of Meyrick's scetch book were "figures of Fauns and Satyrs and Aegipans danced before his eyes, the darkness of the thicket, the dance on the mountain-top, the scenes by lonely shores, in green vineyards, by rocks and desert places."
Chapter V, The Great God Pan
To celebrate the ghoulish holiday of Halloween I have created list, a directly of sorts, featuring the books I have read over the past year. These stories feature ghosts, the supernatural, the occult and all things ghoulish.
Let me not fail to mention the posts that I made of my readings of H. P. Lovecraft.
"On one side of the pillar was an inscription, of which I took a note: |
| DEVOMNODENT--i-- FLA--v--IVSSENILISPOSSV--it-- PROPTERNVP--tia --qua--SVIDITSVBVMB--ra-- |
'To the great god Nodens (the god of the Great Deep or Abyss) Flavius Senilis has erected this pillar on account of the marriage which he saw beneath the shade.' " Chapter VIII, The Fragments, The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen |
In Daniel Harms “The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia” Harms includes a pretty through bibliography with works that he picked through to write his text. Within this appendix he includes several authors that were before H.P. Lovecraft’s time, Lovecraft being born 1890, the following authors wouldn’t have been Lovecraft’s contemporaries.
There a few texts that were written during the time of Lovecraft’s writings, however the majority were written when Lovecraft was still a wee lad. I cannot say that I have read all that many of these titles and getting my hands on some of these titles is going to be bit of challenge.
Ambrose Bierce: “The Death of Halpin Trayser” (1893), “Haita the Shephard” (1893), “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” (1891). “The Man and the Snake” (1891).
Robert Chambers: “In the Court of the Dragon” (1895), “The Maker of Moons” (1895), “The Repairer of Reputations” (1895), “The Silent Land” (1896), “The Slayer of Souls” (1920). “The Yellow Sign” (1895).
Arthur Macken: “The Novel of the Black Seal” (1895), “The Great God Pan” (1894), “The White People” (1910)
Edgar Allen Poe: “The Narrative of A Gordon Pym of Nantucket” (1838), “Ulalume” (1847)
