Lovecraft in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780367713089 / Miękka / 2023 / 314 str.

Opis

Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft’s influence in contemporary times.

Spis treści

 

Introduction

Antonio Alcala Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm

1. Lovecraft and the Stage: A Recent (Re)Discovery

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

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

Elisabete Lopes

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

Lúcio Reis Filho and Sheila Schvarzman

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

John Glover

5. "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

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

Tom Shapira

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

Suzanne Albary and Richard Albary

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

Ian Fetters

9. An Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos

Daniel Doncel

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

Natasha Rebry Coulthard

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

Fredrik Blanc

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

Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

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

Kathleen Hudson

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

Loren Barbour

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

Kevin Corstorphine and Matt Crofts

16. Dreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media

Eoin Murray

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

David Simmons

18. Queering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft’s Monstrous Others

Nowell Marshall

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

Brian Johnson

20. Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability

Michael Cerliano

21. Falling into the Void: "Nyarlathotep"

Carl H. Sederholm

O autorze

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.