The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, Film, Podcast, TV, Games

Preface and Acknowledgements
	The Lovecraft Renaissance
	The Essays in This Volume
	References
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Part I: Theory
	Chapter 1: Lovecraft, the Lovecraftian, and Adaptation: Problems of Philosophy and Practice
		Problems of Practice: Lovecraft, the Lovecraftian, and Adaptation
		Lovecraft and Problems in the Philosophy of Adaptation
		Conclusion: Adapting Lovecraft
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Disseminating Lovecraft: The Proliferation of Unsanctioned Derivative Works in the Absence of an Operable Copyright Monopoly
		Introduction
		Copyright Law During Lovecraft’s Era
		Establishing Chain of Title: Derleth’s Assumed Monopoly Under Arkham House Publishing (1937–1971)
		Unsanctioned Adaptations: The Proliferation of Derivative Works
		Conclusion: Preserving Lovecraft’s Open Culture
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: When Adaptation Precedes the Texts: The Spread of Lovecraftian Horror in Thailand
		Early Encounters
		The Present Continuity
		Problem with the Imaginary
		Return to the Symbolic
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II: Comics
	Chapter 4: Conveying Cosmicism: Visual Interpretations of Lovecraft
		Cosmicism and “The Colour Out of Space”
		Challenges of Adaptation
		Color Out of Space (2019)
		Comics
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: The Problematic of Providence: Adaptation as a Process of Individuation
		“The Courtyard”, Neonomicon, Providence
		Emergence, Individuation, and Media Ecologies
		“I think maybe it’s always been Yuggoth”
		The Media Ecological Aesthetics of Providence
		Time, Memory, Perception
		Speculative Media Archaeology
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6: Twice Told Tale: Examining Comics Adaptations of At the Mountains of Madness
		I.J.N. Culbard’s At the Mountains of Madness: Smooth Edges, Wild Worlds
		Gou Tanabe’s H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness: Sharp Edges
		Conclusion: Lovecraft in Time, Words, and Pictures
		References
Part III: Film and TV
	Chapter 7: Image, Insoluble: Filming the Cosmic in The Colour Out of Space
		Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space
		The Visceral
		The Caliginous
		The Cosmic
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: The Threshold of Horror: Indeterminate Space, Place and the Material in Film Adaptations of Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space (1927)
		Adaptation, Repetition, Variation
		Filmic Affordances and Cinematic Space
		One Story, Three Tales
		Conclusion: Lovecraft, Adaptation, Innovation and Continuation
		References
	Chapter 9: Cthulhoo-Dooby-Doo!: The Re-animation of Lovecraft (and Racism) Through Subcultural Capital
		Scooby-Doo and Cthulhu, Too
		Scooby-Doo, Re-animator
		Conclusion, or, “An Ending”
		Note
		References
	Chapter 10: Dispatches from Carcosa: Murder, Redemption and Reincarnating the Gothic in HBO’s True Detective
		Palimpsestuous Reimplementers and the Gothic Tradition
		The Problems of a Cinematic Necronomicon
		Setting and Characters: The Reconfigured Weird
		A Crash of Musical Metal: Lovecraft, Burnett and the Atonal
		Philosophical and Narrative Approaches
		Conclusion: The Changeless Thing—Lovecraft Redefined?
		References
	Chapter 11: Lovecraft Country: Horror, Race, and the Dark Other
		Anti-Blackness and the Dark Other in Speculative Fiction
		Lovecraft Country: Surveillance from Jim Crow to the New Jim Code
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: The Lovecraftian Festive Hoax: Readers Between Reality and Fiction
		The Fictional Lovecraft in In the Mouth of Madness and Providence
		The Fictional Reader and the Festive Hoax
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part IV: Podcasts
	Chapter 13: “In My Tortured Ears There Sounds Unceasingly a Nightmare”: H. P. Lovecraft and Horror Audio
		Introduction: H. P. Lovecraft and Sound
		Lovecraftesque: Radio Drama and the “Golden Age”
		Lovecraft and Contemporary Audio
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: The Lovecraft Investigations as Mythos Metatext
		The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Lovecraft and Simpson
		The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Lovecraft vs. Simpson
		Lovecraft, Simpson, and the Cult of Witchcraft
		The Lovecraft Investigations, the (Non-)Fiction Podcast, and the Poetics of Adaptation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part V: Video Games
	Chapter 15: Head Games: Adapting Lovecraft Beyond Survival Horror
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16: The Crisis of Third Modernity: Video Game Adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft in The Sinking City
		Introduction
		Lovecraft and the Problem of Playing Video Games
		The Sinking City: Between First and Third Modernity?
		References
	Chapter 17: Authorship Discourse and Lovecraftian Video Games
		Transmedia Adaptation and Authorship Discourse
		Lovecraftian Gaming
		Advertising Authorship: Paratextual Connections
		Notes
		References
Part VI: Analog Games
	Chapter 18: Challenging the Expressive Power of Board Games: Adapting H.P. Lovecraft in Arkham Horror and Mountains of Madness
		The Board Game Medium
		Lovecraftian Poetics: “No More Must Be Told”
		The Story Engine of Arkham Horror
		Beyond Managing Sanity Points: Mountains of Madness
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 19: Playing the Race Card: Lovecraftian Play Spaces and Tentacular Sympoiesis in the Arkham Horror Board Game
		Introduction: Playing into Tentacular Legacies
		“Could You Face Shoggoths Without Going Mad?”: Ludic Agency and Cosmic Indifference
		“That Gorgeous Islam”: Playing with Others
		Conclusion: “If I Throw a Ball at You”
		Notes
		References
Index