![]() “The Mythic Hero Archetype in ‘The Dunwich Horror.’ ” Lovecraft Studies 4, 1.4 (Spring 1981 ): 3–9.īurleson, Donald R. “Lovecraft and the World as Cryptogram.” Lovecraft Studies 16, 7.1 (Spring 1988 ): 14–18.īurleson, Donald R. “Lovecraft and Interstitiality.” Lovecraft Studies 37 (Fall 1997 ): 25–34.īurleson, Donald R. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2012.īurleson, Donald R. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īurleson, Donald R. ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The film does manage some creepy atmospherics, but these do not entirely carry the day. Scriptwriters for one thing insisted on a romantic interest, a plot addendum with which Lovecraft would doubtless have been disappointed, if not appalled. ![]() While the interest of filmmakers is no guarantor of literary excellence, it is not altogether without significance that American International Pictures found the story sufficiently enamoring to make a motion picture of it in 1970, a film effort sporting a fairly impressive cast (Dean Stockwell, Sandra Dee, Ed Begley, Sam Jaffe, Lloyd Bochner) but falling short, as such projects so often tend to do, of translating the prose qualities of Lovecraftian fiction into the medium of the silver screen. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror” (written 1928), long one of his best-known tales, has evoked a broad spectrum of response. ![]()
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