Recently I have fallen in love with postmodernist literature, and then that led me into some of the stories by H.P. Lovecraft (not postmodern, but I had been curious and read a couple of stories of his a year or so back) through some convoluted avenues of Wikipedia. Lovecraft is the father of the Weird story and is probably one of the, if not the most influential figures in modern horror literature. A piece of Weird fiction generally involves the merging of science, mythology, and the paranormal...
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