New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft
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New Critical Essays on H. P. Lovecraft Edited by David Simmons
NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS ON H. P. LOVECRAFT
Copyright © David Simmons, 2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-33224-0
All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-46166-0 ISBN 978-1-137-32096-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137320964 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
New critical essays on H. P. Lovecraft / [edited] by David Simmons. pages cm. 1. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890–1937—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Horror tales, American—History and criticism. I. Simmons, David, 1979– editor of compilation. PS3523.O833Z79 2013 813⬘.52—dc23
2013002508
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: July 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This book is dedicated to all those readers of Lovecraft, past, present, and future. Long may you enjoy his work.
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CON T E N T S
List of Figures
ix
Foreword by S. T. Joshi
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction H. P. Lovecraft: The Outsider No More? David Simmons
Part I One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
1
Lovecraft and His Fiction
“A Certain Resemblance”: Abject Hybridity in H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Fiction David Simmons
13
“Spawn of the Pit”: Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa, and All Things Foul: H. P. Lovecraft’s Liminal Women Gina Wisker
31
“The Infinitude of the Shrieking Abysses”: Rooms, Wombs, Tombs, and the Hysterical Female Gothic in “The Dreams in the Witch-House” Sara Williams
55
Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism Gerry Carlin and Nicola Allen
73
Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft’s Mirages Robert Waugh
91
On “The Dunwich Horror” Donald R. Burleson
105
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Contents Part II Lovecraft and His Inf luence
Seven
Eight
The Shadow over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu J. S. Mackley
119
From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H. P. Lovecraft Steffen Hantke
135
Nine
Co(s)mic Horror Chris Murray and Kevin Corstorphine
Ten
“Sounds Which Filled Me with an Indefinable Dread”: The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H. P. Lovecraft in “Extreme” Metal 193 Joseph Norman
Eleven
“Comrades in Tentacles”: H. P. Lovecraft and China Miéville Martyn Colebrook
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Tentacles and Teeth
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