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Lovecraft and influence : his predecessors and successors

eBook, English, 2013
Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2013
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (211 pages)
9780810891166, 9780810891159, 0810891166, 0810891158
1020487234
ContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Lovecraft’s PredecessorsBiblical Bits in Lovecraft; Robert M. PriceQueen Anne Is [Not] Dead: Lovecraft and the Augustans; J. D. WorthingtonThe Shape of Darkness: Origins for H. P. Lovecraft within the American Gothic Tradition; James GohoHawthorne’s Influence on Lovecraft; Donald R. BurlesonHearken . . . I Can Tell You the Whole Story: Monologues and Confessions in the Early Works of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe; Alex HoustounLovecraft’s Debt to Lord Dunsany; Darrell SchweitzerA Reprehensible Habit: H. P. Lovecraft and the Munsey Magazines; Gavin CallaghanGreen StormRising: Lovecraft’s Roots in Invasion Literature; T. R. LiveseyPart II: Lovecraft’s SuccessorsWhat Stays in Lovecraft’s Sieve Once Frank Belknap Long Is Strained Through It; Norm GayfordFrom the Cosmic to the Human: H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence on Ramsey Campbell; S. T. JoshiLovecraft’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. WaughReanimator and Exterminator: H. P. Lovecraft and William S. Burroughs; Michael CiscoNature’s Other, Ghastly Face: H. P. Lovecraft and the Animal Sublime in Stephen King; John LanganEasy as Falling Off Logic: A Consideration of Lovecraft and Ligotti as “Weird Realists”; Steven J. MaricondaBibliographyIndexAbout the ContributorsAbout the Editor
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