{lovecraftr}

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

-H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft Datasets

This package contains H. P. Lovecraft’s corpus as R datasets for textual analysis.

Usage

Character vectors of individual works can be accessed in several ways:

cthulhu <- lovecraftr::the_call_of_cthulhu
head(cthulhu)
#> [1] "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"
#> [2] ""
#> [3] "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival...a survival"
#> [4] "of a hugely remote period when...consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in"
#> [5] "shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing"
#> [6] "humanity...forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory"

or

data("the_call_of_cthulhu")

The entire corpus can be accessed as a tibble with:

corpus <- lovecraftr::lovecraft_corpus()

corpus |>
  dplyr::filter(title == "The Call Of Cthulhu") |>
  head()
#> # A tibble: 6 × 2
#>   title               text
#>   <chr>               <chr>
#> 1 The Call Of Cthulhu "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"
#> 2 The Call Of Cthulhu ""
#> 3 The Call Of Cthulhu "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably …
#> 4 The Call Of Cthulhu "of a hugely remote period when...consciousness was manif…
#> 5 The Call Of Cthulhu "shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of…
#> 6 The Call Of Cthulhu "humanity...forms of which poetry and legend alone have c…

or

data("lovecraft")

Installation

Install from GitHub using {devtools}:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jrdnbradford/lovecraftr")

or {remotes}:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("jrdnbradford/lovecraftr")

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.