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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a volume that may be useful to academics and students who are starting out with Lovecraft. It may be especially useful to advanced university students who are required by their thesis supervisor to pair Lovecraft with another author. I did find some topics neatly summed up and clarified. * Tentaclii: H.P. Lovecraft Blog” *
Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Lovecraft’s Predecessors Biblical Bits in Lovecraft; Robert M. Price Queen Anne Is [Not] Dead: Lovecraft and the Augustans; J. D. Worthington The Shape of Darkness: Origins for H. P. Lovecraft within the American Gothic Tradition; James Goho Hawthorne’s Influence on Lovecraft; Donald R. Burleson Hearken . . . I Can Tell You the Whole Story: Monologues and Confessions in the Early Works of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe; Alex Houstoun Lovecraft’s Debt to Lord Dunsany; Darrell Schweitzer A Reprehensible Habit: H. P. Lovecraft and the Munsey Magazines; Gavin Callaghan Green StormRising: Lovecraft’s Roots in Invasion Literature; T. R. Livesey Part II: Lovecraft’s Successors What Stays in Lovecraft’s Sieve Once Frank Belknap Long Is Strained Through It; Norm Gayford From the Cosmic to the Human: H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence on Ramsey Campbell; S. T. Joshi Lovecraft’s Influence in Science Fiction: The Tides of His Dark Star in the Works of Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber, and Philip K. Dick; Robert H. Waugh Reanimator and Exterminator: H. P. Lovecraft and William S. Burroughs; Michael Cisco Nature’s Other, Ghastly Face: H. P. Lovecraft and the Animal Sublime in Stephen King; John Langan Easy as Falling Off Logic: A Consideration of Lovecraft and Ligotti as “Weird Realists”; Steven J. Mariconda Bibliography Index About the Contributors About the Editor
