ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 5|19 pages
“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)
chapter 7|15 pages
Drawing the Unknowable—Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror in Magic
The Gathering and Hearthstone
chapter 8|14 pages
Nuclear Inhumanities
H.P. Lovecraft's “The Colour Out of Space” and the Dread of Contamination
chapter 11|14 pages
“It Was the Vegetation”
Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
chapter 12|14 pages
Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene
Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank's Underwater
chapter 13|15 pages
Racial (In)Visibility, Cosmic Indifference
Reimagining H.P. Lovecraft's Legacy in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)
chapter 14|12 pages
Finding “Something and Not Nothing”
Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century
chapter 15|14 pages
The Crawling Chaos
H.P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and “Dungeon Crawler” Videogames
chapter 17|12 pages
“Bringing … Uncertain Geographies Under … Control”?
Exploring the Lovecraftian ‘Walking Simulator’
chapter 19|16 pages
Weird Bedfellows
H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series
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