02-25-2024, 05:58 PM
The Night Ocean by H.P. Lovecraft
https://youtu.be/UHclzwGmXfA?si=gwXwKU8_L5EDZmJT
"The Night Ocean by R. H. Barlow with H. P. Lovecraft is a short story first published in The Californian vol. 4, no. 3 (Winter 1936)."
After pouring his soul into painting a mural for a contest, an artist seeks solitude and healing at a remote seaside cottage. Strange occurrences and a growing feeling of dread of the ocean and its mysteries slowly encroach to dominate his consciousness.
"The Night Ocean" is subtle and nuanced, and encapsulates the existential dread of Lovecraft's flavor of cosmic horror, but where it differs from many of his other tales, in how it embraces a "less is more" aesthetic. The masters of horror know that sometimes its what you don't see that scares you the most.
"The Night Ocean" is the final story in the collection "Medusa's Coil and Others," and so brings to close this second phase of "Let's Talk, H.P. Lovecraft," a journey I first embarked upon in 2018. The show is going on a second extended hiatus, but I promise to return again one day to finish what I started. There are a still a few more Lovecraft stories I have not reviewed out there lurking in the darkness, along with his poetry and other writings. And beyond that lies the entirety of the "Cthulhu Mythos" stories written by other authors.
Thank you for joining me on the journey... so far.
"Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England."
VOLUMES USED
- Medusa's Coil and Others
-The Crawling Chaos and Others
-The Ancient Track
-The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Chartwell Books)
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #lovecraftian #shortstory #literature #education
https://youtu.be/UHclzwGmXfA?si=gwXwKU8_L5EDZmJT
"The Night Ocean by R. H. Barlow with H. P. Lovecraft is a short story first published in The Californian vol. 4, no. 3 (Winter 1936)."
After pouring his soul into painting a mural for a contest, an artist seeks solitude and healing at a remote seaside cottage. Strange occurrences and a growing feeling of dread of the ocean and its mysteries slowly encroach to dominate his consciousness.
"The Night Ocean" is subtle and nuanced, and encapsulates the existential dread of Lovecraft's flavor of cosmic horror, but where it differs from many of his other tales, in how it embraces a "less is more" aesthetic. The masters of horror know that sometimes its what you don't see that scares you the most.
"The Night Ocean" is the final story in the collection "Medusa's Coil and Others," and so brings to close this second phase of "Let's Talk, H.P. Lovecraft," a journey I first embarked upon in 2018. The show is going on a second extended hiatus, but I promise to return again one day to finish what I started. There are a still a few more Lovecraft stories I have not reviewed out there lurking in the darkness, along with his poetry and other writings. And beyond that lies the entirety of the "Cthulhu Mythos" stories written by other authors.
Thank you for joining me on the journey... so far.
"Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England."
VOLUMES USED
- Medusa's Coil and Others
-The Crawling Chaos and Others
-The Ancient Track
-The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Chartwell Books)
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #lovecraftian #shortstory #literature #education