Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming

by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez (Editor), Carl H. Sederholm (Editor)

Overview

Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft’s influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the Anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following topics:

• Adaptation of Lovecraft’s legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and game artwork
• The connection between the writer’s legacy and his life
• Reading Lovecraft in light of contemporary criticism about capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene
• How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft’s fiction
• Reading Lovecraft’s fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367713089
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/25/2023
Series:	Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Antonio Alcala Gonzalez　is founder of the　International Gothic Literature Congress　and　chair of the Humanities Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.　

Carl H. Sederholm is professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University and chair of the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters.

Table of Contents

 

Introduction

Antonio Alcala Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm

• Lovecraft and the Stage: A Recent (Re)Discovery

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

• Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO’s True Detective (2014)

Elisabete Lopes

• An Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian cinema, 1975-2016

Lúcio Reis Filho and Sheila Schvarzman

• The Masks of E’ch-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H. P. Lovecraft

John Glover

• "It’s like a maze you can’t see": Comics Cryptomimesis of Lovecraft and the Lovecraftian in Alan Moore’s Neonomicon (2004-2005) and Providence (2015-2017)

Stuart L. Lindsay

• Man or Cartoon: H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics Character

Tom Shapira

• Drawing the Unknowable - Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone

Suzanne Albary and Richard Albary

• Nuclear Inhumanities: H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and the Dread of Contamination

Ian Fetters

• An Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos

Daniel Doncel

• Lovecraft’s Viral Networks: A Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene

Natasha Rebry Coulthard

• "It Was the Vegetation": Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

Fredrik Blanc

• Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene: Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank’s Underwater

Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

• Racial (in)visibility, cosmic indifference: Reimagining H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)

Kathleen Hudson

• Finding "Something and Not Nothing:" Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century

Loren Barbour

• The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and "Dungeon Crawler" Videogames

Kevin Corstorphine and Matt Crofts

• Dreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media

Eoin Murray

• "Bringing … Uncertain Geographies Under … Control"? Exploring the Lovecraftian ‘Walking Simulator’

David Simmons

• Queering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft’s Monstrous Others

Nowell Marshall

• Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, M/M Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne & Griffin Series

Brian Johnson

• Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability

Michael Cerliano

• Falling into the Void: "Nyarlathotep"

Carl H. Sederholm