Specifically, this shift moves from Einstein not understanding what lies beyond or the forbidden arts, to having an encounter with beings or situations outside of what has been established as the Einsteinian universe of relative space-time. In The Whisperer in Darkness there was a distinct shift in how HPL incorporated Einstein in his writings. The great Vince Price as Charles Dexter Ward in Roger Corman’s The Haunted Palace, which is based on Lovecraft’s The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward On the consideration of these forbidden and nearly unknown arts, “Not even Einstein, he declared,, could more profoundly revolutionise the current conception of things.” Again, HPL is making the point that not even humanity’s most innovative and “out of the box” thinker could grasp what he was trying to accomplish. ![]() In the story Ward was working on uncovering the “neglected arts” of his ancestor Joseph Curwen. Hypnos by Verreaux ()Įinstein was specifically mentioned in The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward. But even that man with Oriental eyes has done no more than suspect.” Thus, here HPL is points to the fact that Einstein understood something of the universe that few did, however, even Einstein did understand the true nature of the cosmos. “One man with Oriental eyes has said that all time and space are relative, and men have laughed. In HPL’s stories the first reference to Einstein, although not specifically by name, was in Hypnos. Lovecraft and Albert Einstein, we focus on where HPL cited Einstein or his theories in his fiction.
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