![]() He shows that American society has deep-rooted but unspoken fears like New England witch myth and attributes the explanation of their unearthly character to the imaginary and unknowable creatures of outer-world, drawing attention to the suspending nature of them. Lovecraft signifies that even through the devices of modern science man can be helpless to surmount the supernatural phenomena. ![]() Unfortunately, these scientific and fantastic travels into the cosmic/the extraterrestrial cost him death. Inspired by the idea that mythical phenomena can be explicated by science, the protagonist tries to amalgamate black magic with modern mathematics and both in his dreams and in reality achieves entering into the fourth dimension, surpassing the boundaries of time and space. ![]() This study examines the dreams and fantasies in Howard Phillips Lovecraft's (1890-1937) "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1933) in the context of science/myth opposition. ![]()
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