Urban Horror Settings in the Works of Lovecraft and LaValle
Johanna Ziegler
University of South Dakota
Keywords: H.P. Lovecraft, Victor LaValle, horror literature, horror genre, genre theory, urban setting, rural setting, horror setting, horror, genre analysis, genre
Abstract
This article examines the defining traits of rural and urban settings in horror literature and compares their usage in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook" and Victor LaValle's rewrite The Ballad of Black Tom. In these works, the urban landscape is used as a deliberate craft tool to generate a unique atmosphere of fear and to reveal the truth about their authors' race-conscious intentions.
