Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction • Antonio Alcala Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm
1 Lovecraft and the Stage: A Recent (Re)Discovery • Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
2 Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO’s True Detective (2014) • Elisabete Lopes
3 An Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian Cinema, 1975–2016 • Lúcio Reis Filho and Sheila Schvarzman
4 The Masks of E’ch-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft • John Glover
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) • Stuart L. Lindsay
6 Man or Cartoon: H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics Character • Tom Shapira
7 Drawing the Unknowable – Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone • Suzanne Albary and Richard Albary
8 Nuclear Inhumanities: H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” and the Dread of Contamination • Ian Fetters
9 An Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos • Daniel Doncel
10 Lovecraft’s Viral Networks: A Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene • Natasha Rebry Coulthard
11 “It Was the Vegetation”: Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft • Fredrik Blanc
12 Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene: Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank’s Underwater • Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
13 Racial (In)Visibility, Cosmic Indifference: Reimagining H.P. Lovecraft’s Legacy in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom (2016) • Kathleen Hudson
14 Finding “Something and Not Nothing”: Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century • Loren Barbour
15 The Crawling Chaos: H.P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and “Dungeon Crawler” Videogames • Kevin Corstorphine and Matthew Crofts
16 Dreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media • Eoin Murray
17 “Bringing … Uncertain Geographies Under … Control”? Exploring the Lovecraftian ‘Walking Simulator’ • David Simmons
18 Queering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft’s Monstrous Others • Nowell Marshall
19 Weird Bedfellows: H.P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne & Griffin Series • Brian Johnson
20 Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability • Michael Cerliano
21 Falling into the Void: “Nyarlathotep” • Carl H. Sederholm
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