H. P. Lovecraft vs. James Joyce
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
H. P. Lovecraft
1890 – 1937
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, but his legacy is also apparent in terms like "Lovecraftian horror" and an enduring fandom.
"Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried …"
James Joyce
1870 – 1931
James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, best known for works such as Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Finnegans Wake.
"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether …"
Connections
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