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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: father's silence
    sub title: H.P. Lovecraft and the shadow of the father
  name:
    name part: McInnis, John Lawson
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McInnis, Dennis
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 93 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
  abstract: H.P. Lovecraft's fiction is deeply shaped by themes of inheritance, decay, forbidden knowledge, and unseen influence. Yet the shadow of his father - whose early illness, institutionalization, and death left a silence at the center of Lovecraft's life - has rarely been examined in sustained detail. This volume presents the long-unpublished scholarly work of John Lawson McInnis III, who investigated Lovecraft's biographical and psychological context through archival research, conference work, and extended academic study. McInnis proceeds with restraint, declining to speculate beyond the available record. Instead, he traces how medical history, family structure, and paternal absence may shape imagination without direct articulation.
  note: John L. McInnis III ; edited with an introduction by Dennard McInnis.
  note: The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy is inscribed by Dennard McInnis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
      name part: 1890-1937
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
      name part: 1890-1937
    topic: Family
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
      name part: 1890-1937
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Fathers in literature
  subject:
    topic: Horror tales, American
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS3523.O833 Z758 2026
  identifier: 9798245071046
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 260424
    record change date: 20260424153149.0
    record identifier: in00005779499
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng