Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecrafts 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 Lovecrafts legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and game artwork
- The connection between the writers 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 Lovecrafts fiction
- Reading Lovecrafts fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecrafts influence in contemporary times.
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 HBOs True Detective (2014)
Elisabete Lopes
An Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian cinema, 1975-2016
Lścio Reis Filho and Sheila Schvarzman
The Masks of Ech-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H. P. Lovecraft
John Glover
"Its like a maze you cant see": Comics Cryptomimesis of Lovecraft and the
Lovecraftian in Alan Moores 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 - Lovecrafts 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
Lovecrafts 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
Eubanks Underwater
Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
Racial (in)visibility, cosmic indifference: Reimagining H. P. Lovecrafts
legacy in Victor LaValles 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 Lovecrafts Monstrous Others
Nowell Marshall
Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, M/M Romance, and the New Queer Families of
Jordan L. Hawks Whyborne & Griffin Series
Brian Johnson
Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability
Michael Cerliano
Falling into the Void: "Nyarlathotep"
Carl H. Sederholm
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.
