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SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE - FIRST . NY: Dover Publications, 1973. First Edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Trade Paperback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-486-20105-8. Lovecraft here formulates teh aesthetics of supernatural horror, and summarizes in masterful fashion the range of its literary expression from primitive folklore to the tales of his own twentieth-century masters. Lovecraft charts his background for his own concepts of horror and literary techniques. He also throws light on his own fiction as well as the horror-literature in his influential wake. This is an unabridged and corrected republication of the 1945 edition. New introduction by E.F. Bleiler. 128 pp.