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ISBN 10: 1000531651
ISBN 13: 9781000531657 
Author: Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Carl H. Sederholm 

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

Lovecraft in the 21st Century Dead But Still Dreaming 1st Table of contents:

1. Lovecraft and the Stage

• A Recent (Re)Discovery

• Lovecraft’s Experience of Theatre and Drama

• Dramatizing H.P.L. Himself

• Newly Discovered: Lovecraft’s Work Adapted for the Stage

• The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and the Radiotheatre of New York City

• Innsmouth in Chicago: Wildclaw Theatre

• Open Circle Theatre

• Visceral Lovecraft in Los Angeles

• Wicked Lit

• Lovecraft in London

• Reanimator: The Musical

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Works Cited

2. Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO’s True Detective (2014)

• Notes

• Works Cited

• Filmography

3. An Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian Cinema, 1975–2016

• Lovecraft Editions in Brazil

• Lovecraftian Cinema in Brazil

• Three Lovecraftian Short Films and Two Feature Films

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Works Cited

4. The Masks of E’ch-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft

• Useful Constructs

• An Odd Selection

• Controversial Figure

• Building the (Im)Perfect Author

• Notes

• Works Cited

5. “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)

• “Beyond the Wall”: The Comics Frame Adaptation of the Cryptic and Interdimensional

• “The Dreams in the Witch House”: From Parallel Dimension to Panel Dimensions

• The Magic Circle: Geometric Conjurations in Providence

• Named Cults: Moore’s Interpretation of the Cultural Uptake of Lovecraft’s Mythos

• “The Terrible Old Man”: Cryptomimesis of Lovecraft’s Prejudice in Providence

• A Conclusion: Neoreaction

• Notes

• Works Cited

6. Man or Cartoon? H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics Character

• Lovecraft Discovered

• Lovecraft Defined

• Lovecraft Denied

• Lovecraft Unbound

• Notes

• Works Cited

7. Drawing the Unknowable—Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone

• Art and Cosmic Horror in Lovecraft’s Works

• The Battle for Zendikar (MTG) and the Artwork of the Eldrazi

• Whispers of the Old Gods (Hearthstone) and the Artwork of the “Old Gods”

• Discussion

• Conclusion

• Note

• Works Cited

8. Nuclear Inhumanities: H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” and the Dread of Contamination

• A Piece of the Great Outside

• The Dread of Contamination

• A Lasting Disgust

• “This is Not a Place of Honor”

• Notes

• Works Cited

9. An Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos

• Notes

• Works Cited

10. Lovecraft’s Viral Networks: A Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene

• Lovecraft’s Viral Modalities

• Transformative Contamination

• Viral Lovecraft: Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene

• Notes

• Works Cited

11. “It Was the Vegetation” Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

• Works Cited

12. Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene: Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank’s Underwater

• Notes

• Works Cited

• Film and Video

13. Racial (In)Visibility, Cosmic Indifference: Reimagining H.P. Lovecraft’s Legacy in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)

• Works Cited

14. Finding “Something and Not Nothing” Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century

• “None of This Ever Happened”: What If the Real Horror Was Inside Us All Along?

• “Shub-Niggurath’s Witnesses”: Cavorting with Chaos

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Works Cited

15. The Crawling Chaos: H.P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces, and “Dungeon Crawler” Videogames

• Lovecraft’s Writing: Closed Spaces, Mental Instability

• Madness and Difficulty: Darkest Dungeon

• Monsters and Disorientation: Crawl

• Conclusion: “In That Gaping Abyss We Will Find Our Redemption”

• Notes

• Works Cited

16. Dreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media

• Lovecraftian Adaptation

• Lovecraft in Video Games

• Bloodborne

• Dreaming in Layers

• Conclusion

• Works Cited

17. “Bringing … Uncertain Geographies Under … Control”? Exploring the Lovecraftian ‘Walking Simulator’

• Works Cited

18. Queering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft’s Monstrous Others

• Notes

• Works Cited

19. Weird Bedfellows: H.P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne & Griffin Series

• Queering Lovecraft’s Bachelor-Heroes

• Queering the Mythos, Loving the Monstrous

• Queer Families, m/m Romance, and the Politics of Reading

• Notes

• Works Cited

20. Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability

• Speaking of Horror: Fisher, Thacker, and the Possibility of a Negative Hauntology

• Horror Within and Without: Lovecraft’s Spectral Monsters

• Speaking of Monsters: The Nature of Our Lovecraftian Moment

• Works Cited

21. Falling into the Void: “Nyarlathotep”

• A Lovecraftian Eschatology

• Approaching “Nyarlathotep”

• A Narrator’s End

• Between the Paragraphs

• Notes

• Works Cited

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