Sean Moreland

H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary relationship between Lovecraft and Poe from a variety of critical perspectives. Of the thirteen essays included in this book, some consider how Poe’s work influenced Lovecraft in important ways. Other essays explore how Lovecraft’s fictional, critical, and poetic reception of Poe irrevocably changed how Poe’s work has been understood by subsequent generations of readers and interpreters. Addressing a variety of topics ranging from the psychology of influence to racial and sexual politics, the essays in this book also consider how Lovecraft’s interpretations of Poe have informed later adaptations of both writers’ works in films by Roger Corman and fiction by Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, and Caitlin R. Kiernan. This collection is an indispensable resource not only for those who are interested in Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work specifically, but also for readers who wish to learn more about the modern history and evolution of Gothic, horror, and weird fiction.

Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation

The Lovecraftian Poe

Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

This third collection, like the previous two, contains the most novel and cutting-edge scholarship in Lovecraftiana, taking familiar topics down unfamiliar paths, amply demonstrating that H. P. Lovecraft's work has more resonance in modern culture than ever before. All in all, a bumper crop of criticism and anaysis that will appeal to academics and Lovecraft's most erudite fans alike! Lovecraftian Proceedings is the Official Organ of the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Symposium. Established in 2013 as a key part of NecronomiCon Providence, the Armitage Symposium fosters exploration of Lovecraft as a rationalist who created an elaborate cosmic mythology, and how this mythology was influenced by, and has come to influence, numerous other authors and artists. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ...... Niels-Viggo Hobbs Introduction ...... Dennis P. Quinn Lovecraft's Dark Continent: At the Mountains of Madness and Antarctic Literature ...... Ian Fetters Alexander Blok and H. P. Lovecraft: On the Mythopoetics of the Supernatural ...... Elena Tchougounova-Paulson At the Mountains of Mars: Viewing the Red Planet through a Lovecraftian Lens ...... Edward Guimont Fascism Eternal Lies: H. P. Lovecraft, Georges Bataille, and the Destiny of the Fascists ...... Ray Huling Stages of the Spiral: Lovecraft's Descent into the Maelstrom ...... Sean Moreland H. P. Lovecraft and the Dynamics of Detective Fiction ...... Heather Poirier Lovecraft out of Space: Echoes of American Weird Fiction on Brazilian Literature and Cinema ...... Lúcio Reis Filho Red Hand, Red Hook: Machen, Lovecraft, and the Urban Uncanny ...... Karen Joan Kohoutek Naming the Unnamable: Lovecraft's Return of the d104 ...... Paul Neimann Correlating the Contents of Lovecraft's Closet ...... Fiona Maeve Geist and Sadie Shurberg Lovecraft Meets the Mummy: Orientalism, Race, and Monstrous Egypt in "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" and "Out of the Aeons" ...... Troy Rondinone The Cosmic Drone of Azathoth: Adapting Literature into Sound ...... Nathaniel R. Wallace Contributors Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium Index

Lovecraftian Proceedings

This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft’s criticism, from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its psychobiological underpinnings, to its pervasive influence on the conception and course of horror and weird literature through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance to contemporary social science, feminist and queer readings of his work, and ultimately reveal Lovecraft’s importance for contemporary speculative philosophy, film and literature.

The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft

New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature

Jason Miller

Dean Swinford

Mathias Jansson

Jesse Bullington

Nathan Meyer

Ben Gwin

Dustin LaValley

Stephen Jansen

Kriscinda Everitt

T. Tranchell

Mary Goff

Michael Riser

Harvey Bainbridge

Despumation champions fiction that explores the diverse themes metal music customarily addresses using language to evoke the feeling of listening to the music. This issue includes stories inspired by Dio, Voivod, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Meshuggah, and Candlemass, plus stories and poems inspired by the metal scene, metal sounds, and metal concepts.

Despumation

Markus P.J. Bohlmann

Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). This collection of fresh essays discusses the representation of monstrous children in popular cinema since the 1950s, with a focus on the relationship between monstrosity and “childness,” a term whose implications the contributors explore.

Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors

Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters

Aalya Ahmad

"This collection presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in different ways and academic settings, showing readers how the pedagogy of horror can galvanize, unsettle and transform classrooms, giving us powerful tools with which to consider interwoven issues of identity, culture, monstrosity, the relationship between the real and the fictional, normativity and adaptation. Foreword, Glen Hirshberg"--Provided by publisher.

Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror

Fear and Learning

This groundbreaking collection of new essays presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in many different ways and in a variety of academic settings—from cultural theory to film studies; from women’s and gender studies to postcolonialism; from critical thinking seminars on the paranormal to the timeless classics of English horror literature. Together, the essays show readers how the pedagogy of horror can galvanize, unsettle and transform classrooms, giving us powerful tools with which to consider interwoven issues of identity, culture, monstrosity, the relationship between the real and the fictional, normativity and adaptation. Includes a foreword by celebrated horror writer Glen Hirshberg.

Markus P. J. Bohlmann

"Depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope. This collection of fresh essays discusses the representation of monstrous children in popular cinema since the 1950s, with a focus on the relationship between monstrosity and "childness.""--

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