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Full Description
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
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
