Background and Influences

Ambrose Bierce

• “Haïta the Shepherd” (1893)
• “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” (1896)
• “The Damned Thing”

Algernon Blackwood

• The Willows
• The Wendigo
• “The Listener”
• “Ancient Sorceries” (in John Silence—Physician Extraordinary)

Robert W. Chambers

• “The Repairer of Reputations”
• “The Mask”
• “In the Court of the Dragon”
• “The Yellow Sign”

Lord Dunsany

• The Gods of Pegāna (1905)
• The Book of Wonder
• “Idle Days on the Yann” (1910)

William Hope Hodgson

• The House on the Borderland

Arthur Machen

• The Great God Pan
• “The White People”
• “The Novel of the Black Seal” (in The Three Impostors)
• “The Novel of the White Powder” (in The Three Impostors)
• “The Shining Pyramid”