Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: Lovecraft’s Predecessors
Biblical Bits in Lovecraft; Robert M. Price
Queen Anne Is [Not] Dead: Lovecraft and the Augustans; J. D. Worthington
The Shape of Darkness: Origins for H. P. Lovecraft within the American Gothic Tradition; James Goho
Hawthorne’s Influence on Lovecraft; Donald R. Burleson
Hearken . . . I Can Tell You the Whole Story: Monologues and Confessions in the Early Works of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe; Alex Houstoun
Lovecraft’s Debt to Lord Dunsany; Darrell Schweitzer
A Reprehensible Habit: H. P. Lovecraft and the Munsey Magazines; Gavin Callaghan
Green StormRising: Lovecraft’s Roots in Invasion Literature; T. R. Livesey

Part II: Lovecraft’s Successors
What Stays in Lovecraft’s Sieve Once Frank Belknap Long Is Strained Through It; Norm Gayford
From the Cosmic to the Human: H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence on Ramsey Campbell; S. T. Joshi
Lovecraft’s Influence in Science Fiction: The Tides of His Dark Star in the Works of Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber, and Philip K. Dick; Robert H. Waugh
Reanimator and Exterminator: H. P. Lovecraft and William S. Burroughs; Michael Cisco
Nature’s Other, Ghastly Face: H. P. Lovecraft and the Animal Sublime in Stephen King; John Langan
Easy as Falling Off Logic: A Consideration of Lovecraft and Ligotti as “Weird Realists”; Steven J. Mariconda

Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor