H. P. Lovecrafts stories concentrate on the unknown, a primary anomaly not unlike those we may find in scientific discourse. The texts are utterly ambiguous and advocate a paradox where knowledge is both successful and dysfunctional. At the edges of conceptual structures Lovecraftian language can say the unsayable and write the unwritable by applying negation, silence, and metonymy, but most of all metaphor-all conjoined in the ecstasy of excess. The unknown, which manifests itself through this matrix of negative representation and negative philosophy, acquires form and mass: it becomes a...