Though these dark metaphors predate the publication of Neonomicon by five years, they praise
Haunter in a way that might as well apply to Neonomicon.
Howard; The
Haunter of the Dark was a sequel to Robert Bloch's The Shambler from the Stars, 1935; in fact, Bloch wrote in 1951 another variant (The Shadow from the Steeple) while another story of his--Fane of the Black Pharaoh, 1937--was, in a certain way, a first sequel to The
Haunter of the Dark by hinting at the abominable deeds of Pharaoh Nephten-Ka.
voyeurism and detachment that skims surfaces, as the street
haunterTHE DEER
HAUNTER: TV spiritualist Derek Acorah and (below) his Hollywood star fans Al Pacino and Robert De Niro
(2) En el cuento citado, "The
Haunter in the Dark" (1935), hay otras referencias semejantes: "there are references to a
Haunter of the Dark awakened by gazing into the Shining Trapezohedron, and insane conjectures about the black gulfs of chaos from which it was called" (The Call 350); "the monstrous thing of night which his rashness had called out of the ultimate black spaces" (353); "he thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos" (354).
She sets out to find the
Haunter, who knows how to pull things out of the living world, and finds out how to "skinjack," entering the bodies of the living.
Most Lovecraft scholars, argues Stefan Dziemianowicz, tend to believe that his properly "Poesque" stage ended in 1926 (Shultz--Joshi 1991:174) with the story, "Cool air", written in March that year, before many of his best known pieces, such as "The case of Charles Dexter Ward" (1927), "The Dunwich horror" (1928), "At the mountains of madness" (1931) or "The
haunter in the dark" (1935).
The prating tavern
haunter speaks of me what he lists; the frantic libeller writes of me what he lists; they print me and make me speak to the world, and shortly they will play me upon the stage.
perhaps no more haunted by than
haunter of his spectral visitant.
A
haunter of bookshops since his childhood, spent north and west of Kensington Gardens, he was a dyed in the wool bookman, and was perhaps the last Man of Letters to have read 'everything'.
At the end of "The Return," the narrator leaves the house and never returns, thus becoming the
haunter rather than the haunted, though in some ways it is ambiguous: since Alvan feels so repelled, he just picks up and leaves.
Now he returned to them with new intensity, and it was Emma's ghost in particular that refused to let him go, in such poems as "The
Haunter": Yes, I companion him to places Only dreamers know, Where the shy hares print long paces, Where the night rooks go; Into old aisles where the past is all to him, Close as his shade can do, Always lacking the power to call to him, Near as I reach thereto!
In doing so he incurred the wrath of one John Hawker who, as a weaver and "a common
haunter of alehouses, a night walker, and a notorious offender in many other disorders and greevous misdemeanors", had both professional and personal reasons to resent Collins.
He remains the Happy
Haunter of our hearts and memories.
