The music of the abyss: Nature in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s The Music of Erich Zann

Abstract

The article analyzes Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s short story The Music of Erich Zann, with a view to presenting the conflict between modernity and nature in Lovecraft’s works. The text in question, along with supplementary texts, provides information that allows us to reformulate the perception of Lovecraft’s works, or more precisely, the category of “supernatural horror.”