If I already like ...

Daniel Petersen · 18 Apr 2012, 14:44 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:44:19 +0100
Subject: (urth) If I already like ...
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You mean 'The House on the Borderland'? I don't find the themes or the
settings familiar, but there may be something about the 'tone', whatever
that is.

Yes.  Frankly, Wolfe's horror 'tone' strikes me as much closer to Hodgson
than Lovecraft, even though Wolfe perhaps deals more explicitly with
Lovecraftian themes.  There is a strange animal terror connected to the
more cosmic and numinous horror and awe in Hodgy that I don't so much find
in Lovey but do find echoed in Wolfe, his Solar monsters especially perhaps
- notules, alzabo, devil fish on spongey island, leatherskin, etc.  I have
heard WHH referenced in at least one review of Wolfe.

-DOJP

2012/4/18 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>

> David Stockhoff wrote (18-04-2012 13:00):
>
>> On 4/18/2012 1:26 AM, pinlighter wrote:
>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Stockhoff"
>>> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>>>
>>>  .. William Hope Hodgson is great background to some of Wolfe's
>>>>> horror elements - I'm loving getting familiar with him. (Lovecraft
>>>>> goes here too, of course.)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> Uh, not really. Where is Hodgson's influence on Wolfe???
>>>
>>> Lovecraft, yes, of course
>>>
>>
>> The extreme futurity and the giant slow-moving evil Beings from outer
>> space do feel familiar. And the Redoubt is a bit like Byzantium toward
>> the end, hyper-romanticized of course, and thus Nessus as well. But
>> that's about all the connections I see.
>>
>
> You mean 'The House on the Borderland'? I don't find the themes or the
> settings familiar, but there may be something about the 'tone', whatever
> that is.
>
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