New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft

1. Introduction
David Simmons

Part I. Lovecraft and His Fiction

2. “A Certain Resemblance”: Abject Hybridity in H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Fiction
David Simmons

3. “Spawn of the Pit”: Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa, and All Things Foul: H. P. Lovecraft’s Liminal Women
Gina Wisker

4. “The Infinitude of the Shrieking Abysses”: Rooms, Wombs, Tombs, and the Hysterical Female Gothic in “The Dreams in the Witch-House”
Sara Williams

5. Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism
Gerry Carlin, Nicola Allen

6. Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft’s Mirages
Robert Waugh

7. On “The Dunwich Horror”
Donald R. Burleson

Part II. Lovecraft and His Influence

8. The Shadow over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu
J. S. Mackley

9. From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H. P. Lovecraft
Steffen Hantke

10. Co(s)mic Horror
Chris Murray, Kevin Corstorphine

11. “Sounds Which Filled Me with an Indefinable Dread”: The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H. P. Lovecraft in “Extreme” Metal
Joseph Norman

12. “Comrades in Tentacles”: H. P. Lovecraft and China Miéville
Martyn Colebrook

13. Tentacles and Teeth: The Lovecraftian Being in Popular Culture
Mark Jones

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory