The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
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“At the Mountains of Madness”
- In At the Mountains of Madness
…particularly to Poe’s 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, from which Lovecraft borrowed liberally. Lovecraft’s horror tends to be implied and offstage, but this effectively deepens the abounding philosophical horror felt by the protagonists. This intriguing blend of gothic horror and lost-world scenarios within a more modern genre…
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description of liquid crystal
- In liquid crystal: Liquid crystal compounds
…crystal occurred in the story The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, by Edgar Allan Poe:
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discussed in biography
- In Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and The Fall of the House of Usher
…published a long prose narrative, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, combining (as so often in his tales) much factual material with the wildest fancies. It is considered one inspiration of Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick. In 1839 he became coeditor of Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in Philadelphia. There a contract…
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