Lovecraft and influence : his predecessors and successors

Lovecraft and influence : his predecessors and successors / edited by Robert H. Waugh.

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 H...

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Other Authors: Waugh, Robert H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
Series:Studies in supernatural literature.
Subjects:
Lovecraft, H. P. > (Howard Phillips), > 1890-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lovecraft, H. P. > (Howard Phillips), > 1890-1937
Lovecraft, H. P. > 1890-1937
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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.

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