“The infinitude of the shrieking abysses”: Rooms, wombs, tombs, and the hysterical female gothic in “the dreams in the witch-house”
(2013)
Book Chapter
Williams, S. (2013). “The infinitude of the shrieking abysses”: Rooms, wombs, tombs, and the hysterical female gothic in “the dreams in the witch-house”. In D. Simmons (Ed.), New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft (55-72). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137320964_4
Set against his earlier epic and sprawling examples of cosmic horror, H. P. Lovecraft’s claustrophobic “The Dreams in the Witch-House” (1933)1 has been thought of as unsuccessful, with S. T. Joshi describing the story as “one of his poorest later eff... Read More about “The infinitude of the shrieking abysses”: Rooms, wombs, tombs, and the hysterical female gothic in “the dreams in the witch-house”.