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24 October 2014updated 30 Oct 2014 1:26pm

Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

The weird realism that runs through Lovecraft’s writings undermines any belief system – religious or humanist – in which the human mind is the centre of the universe.

By John Gray

(Photo By Lovecraft peopled his mythical realms with slippery, palpitating cretaures to escape a worse prospect â?" a human world. Illustration by Sean Phillips)

The New Annotated H P Lovecraft
Edited by Leslie S Klinger
Liveright/W W Norton, 867pp, £25

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