Horror of Philosophy
What if we read Poe or Lovecraft as philosophers rather than as writers of short stories? What if we read Poe or Lovecraft as non-fiction? This means that the typical concerns of the writer or literary critic — plot, character, setting, genre, and so on — will be less relevant to us than the ideas contained in the story — and the central thought that runs through much of supernatural horror is the limit of thought, human characters confronted with the limit of the human.
A systematic, comprehensive exploration of the links between philosophy, religion, and the horror genre: excerpt by Eugene Thacker.