![]() ![]() In his best stories, his descriptions of landscape are so meticulous that their woods and valleys are loaded with menace long before anything shambles or crawls through them. HP Lovecraft, the American writer who, in a flurry of activity in the mid-1920s, defined the " Cthulhu Mythos" – a series of interconnected stories that Luc Sante has called "a sort of unified field theory of horror" – is particularly good at this. From the deserted strands of MR James to the Danube of Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows", there seems to be a deeper resonance to those stories in which location is a junction between the mundane and the weird. ![]() In my favourite works of horror and supernatural fiction, the landscape itself is at least as important as whatever beasts or phantoms may roam across it. ![]()
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