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Lovecraft; New England; Place; Literary Cartography; Xenophobia.
Monsters and fantastic creatures that escape from human understanding are remarkableliterary elements in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890 - 1937) narratives. He is also knownas the author of the uncanny fiction genre. His fantasies writings point up to areconstruction of American identity in the first decades of the 20th century. To cause fearand disgust with distorted views about the Other - non-Teutonic peoples - whether throughletters, newspaper articles or in the monsters in fictional narratives, Lovecraft reveals axenophobic feeling, of a racist nature, against the migratory flow of diverse peoples whocame to inhabit New England - a region idealized by the author as the holder of the trueessence of the United States. Through the geographical concepts of place and landscape offear, Yi-Fu Tuan (1983; 2005) demonstrates how individuals appropriate and recreatespaces from experience. In addition to the method of literary cartography by Robert Tally(2020), it demonstrates how the writer, just like the cartographer, uses several imaginarymechanisms, based on the perceptions of his own experience, to create symbolic maps thatrepresent reality. Thus, it is observed that Lovecraft reconstructed the meaning of theregion in which he lived from his own sensory and affective experiences; just like occurredin several writings - fictional, epistolary narratives and articles in periodicals - using thehistorical imaginary to reframe the American cultural identity