Lovecraft and influence : his predecessors and successors /
Recognized as a major innovator in the weird story, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an author whose influence was felt by nearly every writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. In H. P. Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors, Robert...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
2013.
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| Series: | Studies in supernatural literature.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Storm Rising: 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.