Lovecraft and Influence

His Predecessors and Successors
Herausgeber: Waugh, Robert H.

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Waugh has assembled a collection of essays that not only examine the effect Lovecraft's work has had-and continues to have-on writers, but how Lovecraft's writing was shaped by those who preceded him. Chapters in this collection are devoted to authors such as Jonathan Swift, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti, Stephen King and more.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Supernatural Literature
• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9780810891159
• ISBN-10: 0810891158
• Artikelnr.: 36966066

Autorenporträt

Robert H. Waugh is professor emeritus in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a leading Lovecraft scholar, whose books include The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft (2006) and A Monster of Voices: Speaking for H. P. Lovecraft (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Abbreviations Introduction 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 StormRising: 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 Bibliography Index About the
Contributors About the Editor