Multiplied Horror: An Isotopy In Three Stories By Lovecraft («The Rats In The Walls», «The Shunned House», And «Pickman’s Model»)

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Eva Ariza Trinidad

Lovecraft’s most salient aim in his narrative is to arouse fear in his readers towards the unknown, man’s most primitive emotion. Textual elements, such as the setting and the author’s imaginary, ordered and structured into semantic paths, contribute to this end. The analysis of the isotopy of the multiple in the three stories selected —«The Rats in the Wall», «The Shunned House», and «Pickman’s Model»— shows the significantcontribution of this thematic path both to the settings and the nightmarish forms found in the Lovecraftian imaginary. This study also allows an approach to those textual structures from which cosmic horror arises.

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Isotopy, Horror, Literary Theory, Lovecraft,

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Ariza Trinidad, Eva. “Multiplied Horror: An Isotopy In Three Stories By Lovecraft («The Rats In The Walls», «The Shunned House», And «Pickman’s Model»)”. Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2019, vol.VOL 7, no. 1, pp. 35-54, https://raco.cat/index.php/Brumal/article/view/358745.
Author Biography

Eva Ariza Trinidad, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Profesora Asociada, Departamento de Lengua Española y Teoría de la Literatura (UCM)