Howard Philips Lovecraft

Supernatural Horror in Literature
Introduction
The Dawn of the Horror Tale
The Early Gothic Novel
The Apex of Gothic Romance
The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
Spectral Literature on the Continent
Edgar Allen Poe
The Weird Tradition in America
The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
The Modern Masters

Gregory Jacobson

"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."
-Charles Bukowski

the Sylvia Plath Effect

The Sylvia Plath Effect: Mental Illness in Eminent Creative Writers
by James C. Kaufman

Two studies involving a total of 2149 writers and other eminent individuals found that female poets were significantly more likely to suffer from mental illness than female fiction writers, male writers of any type, or than eminent individuals in other fields. This finding has been dubbed the "Sylvia Plath" effect.

Diane Arbus

"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."
-Diane Arbus

Colette Calascione

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
-Oscar Wilde