Abstract

An examination of the similar themes explored by Jorge Luis Borges and H. P. Lovecraft, beginning with Armand's brief meeting with Borges and continuing on in four sections. "I" covers parallel themes in the lives of the two literary men; "II" covers the similarities of theme that remind readers of Borges of Lovecraft (and vice versa), highlighting especially on their shared devotion to Edgar Allan Poe; and "III" looking at the philosophical and aesthetic differences between Borges and Lovecraft, painting Borges as "a modern Gnostic."

Works Cited

Articles

• His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Books

• Al Azif (de Camp)
• The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969
• An Introduction to American Literature
• A Personal Anthology
• Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
• Dreamtigers
• Exiles and Fabrications
• H. P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent
• The Idea of the Holy
• The Gnostic Religion
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Labyrinths: Selecte Stories and Other Writings
• Letters from New York
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections
• The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion
• The Old Patagonian Express: By Train through the Americas
• Poems (Poe)
• Prose for Borges
• Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
• Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft

Letters

• 000-0066
• 000-0101
• 000-0270
• 000-0306
• 000-0445
• 000-0659
• 000-0770
• 000-0914
• 014-0068

Cited By

TBD

Included In

• An Epicure in the Terrible (1991)
• An Epicure in the Terrible (2011)