Brockden Brown was the first authentic American voice, exploring the uniquely gothic fears of the supernatural in early, independent America.
William Hope Hodgson: Master of Weird Fiction
A phenomenal writer of the earliest weird fiction, Hope Hodgson specialized in heart-stopping moments of terror, built on pages of tense, supernatural menace. The majority of his work focused on the lurking horrors of the ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft: From Weird to Modern Gothic
A master storyteller of ancient and alien menace, plunderer of fear and the unknown, Lovecraft continues to influence the fiction, comics and movies of today.
Gustave Dore Illustration: Empyrean
This astonishing engraving is from Doré’s magnificent illustrated version of Dante’s Paradiso, Canto 31. It’s very hard to create a decent image of this online because there’s so much detail in the engraving. The main version I have is a large format publication by Omega Press, good because it’s large, bad because it’s on wood-free paper so the ink has …