faustus: (gorilla)
( Apr. 10th, 2008 02:16 am)
"Spielberg is a notorious film director."

"Hitchcock is an infamous director."

To me, Al Capone was notorious, Jack the Ripper was infanous.

OK, Spielberg is a notoriously sentimental director whose films reunite fractured families, Hitchcock was infamous for the way he treated actresses. But that's not what they mean in their essays.

Fatty Arbuckle, maybe he was notorious. All sorts of scandal about him. Mostly slander, mind. And maybe Ed Wood Jr or William Castle were infamous.

But at some point these words have come to mean well-known.
Does anyone have easy access to any of the following (I have a list of quotations to track which I'll then offload onto you...)

Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows", perhaps The Willows: And Other
Queer Tales
(1934) but any decent edition would do (a Penguin say) barring first edns

William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908) or later edition with Ch. 18.

H.P. Lovecraft (1995) Miscellaneous Writings, ed. S.T. Joshi, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House.

H.P. Lovecraft (1999) The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, Penguin Classics (I have two of the three quotes pegged in this but can't locate third)

Thanks in advance...

And if anyone recognises Clute's phrase "Pre-Aftermath fiction" (I don't have his book on horror) let me know a source
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