Lovecraft and Influence

Robert H. Waugh is professor emeritus in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a leading Lovecraft scholar, whose books include The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft (2006) and A Monster of Voices: Speaking for H. P. Lovecraft (2011).

• ContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Lovecraft’s PredecessorsBiblical Bits in Lovecraft; Robert M. PriceQueen Anne Is [Not] Dead: Lovecraft and the Augustans; J. D. WorthingtonThe Shape of Darkness: Origins for H. P. Lovecraft within the American Gothic Tradition; James GohoHawthorne’s Influence on Lovecraft; Donald R. BurlesonHearken . . . I Can Tell You the Whole Story: Monologues and Confessions in the Early Works of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe; Alex HoustounLovecraft’s Debt to Lord Dunsany; Darrell SchweitzerA Reprehensible Habit: H. P. Lovecraft and the Munsey Magazines; Gavin CallaghanGreen StormRising: Lovecraft’s Roots in Invasion Literature; T. R. LiveseyPart II: Lovecraft’s SuccessorsWhat Stays in Lovecraft’s Sieve Once Frank Belknap Long Is Strained Through It; Norm GayfordFrom the Cosmic to the Human: H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence on Ramsey Campbell; S. T. JoshiLovecraft’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. WaughReanimator and Exterminator: H. P. Lovecraft and William S. Burroughs; Michael CiscoNature’s Other, Ghastly Face: H. P. Lovecraft and the Animal Sublime in Stephen King; John LanganEasy as Falling Off Logic: A Consideration of Lovecraft and Ligotti as “Weird Realists”; Steven J. MaricondaBibliographyIndexAbout the ContributorsAbout the Editor

This is a volume that may be useful to academics and students who are starting out with Lovecraft. It may be especially useful to advanced university students who are required by their thesis supervisor to pair Lovecraft with another author. I did find some topics neatly summed up and clarified.