J.K. Rowling and H.P. Lovecraft - A&E. J.K. Rowling and H.P. Lovecraft CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Raise your hand if you've never heard of Harry Potter. OK, nobody. Raise your hand if you've either read at least some of the books or seen one or more of the movies. OK, most of you. The wizarding world created by J.K. But did she do it all alone? But did Harry Potter walk into her mind without some nudging along the way?
Lovecraft, an early science fiction/horror writer, crafted many short stories that kept kids up late, staring into their nightlights. Read on. In "Witches' Hollow," the main character, a teacher, relocates to backcountry Massachusetts and encounters a promising student who refuses to study, saying it's his father's wishes that he will obey. Coincidence? In this story, the solution seems to be touching a "stone" to the boy's neck to break the spell his daddy has cast upon him. Forget the Elder Wand in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" for a minute and focus on the stones. Rowling's first book? Coincidence?
Miskatonic University - The H.P. Lovecraft Wiki. Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in the equally fictitious Arkham, set in the real-world Essex County, Massachusetts. After first appearing in the serial Reanimator, the school appeared in numerous horror stories in the Cthulhu Mythos genre written by Lovecraft and other writers. It also appears in role-playing games based on the mythos. Miskatonic is named after the fictional Miskatonic River, which flows through Arkham. The school is the most famous institution in the imaginary setting known as Lovecraft Country.
Miskatonic University is evidently modeled on Ivy League institutions like Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth and especially Brown University, in Lovecraft's native Providence, Rhode Island. Miskatonic University is famous for its collection of occult books. . ↑ Pearsall, "Miskatonic University", The Lovecraft Lexicon, p. 281. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany.
More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis. Biography[edit] His mother was a cousin of Sir Richard Burton, and he inherited from her considerable height, being 6' 4".
Early life[edit] Lady Dunsany, Beatrice Child Villiers Interests[edit] Military experience[edit] Death[edit] The King of Elfland's Daughter. The King of Elfland's Daughter is a 1924 fantasy novel written by Lord Dunsany. Written before the genre was named, it is retroactively considered to be among the pioneering works of modern fantasy.[1] Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the second volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June, 1969. It has also been included in a more recent series of books reprinting the best of modern fantasy, the Fantasy Masterworks series. The King of Elfland's Daughter contains elements of both the (later-named) subgenres of fairytale fantasy and high fantasy.
Plot summary[edit] The lord of Erl is told by the parliament of his people that they want to be ruled by a magic lord. During the course of the novel, the King of Elfland uses up all of the three powerful magic spells which he had been reserving for the defense of his realm. Critical reception[edit] E. Adaptations[edit] [edit] References[edit] Bleiler, Everett (1948). Nightgaunt. Nightgaunts (also Night-Gaunt or night-gaunt) are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos and is also part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. The creatures appear in the poem "Night-Gaunts" and the novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, both by Lovecraft.
Nightgaunts were inspired by Lovecraft's childhood nightmares.[1] Description[edit] Nightgaunts have a vaguely human shape, but are thin, black, and faceless. Their skin is slick and rubbery. Entities Served[edit] Dreamlands[edit] Night-gaunts guard Ngranek, an infamous mountain on the isle of Oriab in the Dreamlands. Occurrences in pop culture[edit] References[edit] Lovecraft, Howard P. [1926] (1985).
Notes[edit] Jump up ^ Lovecraft once wrote in a letter to a friend: "When I was 6 or 7 I used to be tormented constantly with a peculiar type of recurrent nightmare in which a monstrous race of entities (called by me 'night-gaunts'—I don't know where I got hold of the name) used to snatch me up [and] carry me off... Quote by H.P. Lovecraft: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is ... Fear of The Unknown: Lovecraft Documentary.