New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft

The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H. P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H. P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer; both popular and critically valid but also problematic in terms of his depictions of race, gender and class.

Acknowledgments Foreword by S. T. Joshi Introduction PART I: LOVECRAFT AND HIS FICTION 1 'A Certain Resemblance': Africa as Abjection Within and Without in H. P. Lovecraft's Short Fiction; David Simmons 2. 'Spawn of the pit': Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa and all Things Foul: HP Lovecraft's Liminal Women; Gina Wisker 3. 'The infinitude of the shrieking abysses': Rooms, Wombs, Tombs and the Hysterical Female Gothic in "The Dreams in the Witch-House"; Sara Williams 4. Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism; Gerry Carlin and Nicola Allen 5. Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft's Mirages; Robert Waugh 6. On 'The Dunwich Horror'; Donald Burleson PART II: LOVECRAFT AND HIS INFLUENCE 7. The Shadow Over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu; J. S. Mackley 8. From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H. P. Lovecraft; Steffen Hantke 9. Co(s)mic Horror; Chris Murray and Kevin Corstorphine 10. 'Sounds which filledme with an indefinable dread': The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H. P. Lovecraft in 'Extreme' Metal'; Joseph Norman 11. 'Comrades in Tentacles': H. P. Lovecraft and China Mieville; Martyn Colebrook 12. Tentacles and Teeth: The Lovecraftian Being in Popular Culture; Mark Jones