Lovecraft Annual No. 15 [2021]
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New Scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft Edited by S. T. Joshi
ISSN 1935-6102
ISBN 9781614983446
August 2021
270 pp
$15.00
This fifteenth issue of The Lovecraft Annual features cutting-edge scholarship on the life, work, and thought of H. P. Lovecraft. Among the biographical articles, we find Horace A. Smith examining aspects of Lovecraft’s early interest in astronomy; Ken Faig, Jr.’s study of Lovecraft’s relations with Irish friends and relatives; Marc Beherec’s analysis of the church in Red Hook that played a critical role in “The Horror at Red Hook”; and Brendan Whyte’s discussion of the appearance of a 1905 letter by Lovecraft in a New York newspaper. Among the articles on Lovecraft’s work, Duncan Norris writes articles on Lovecraft’s disdain for money in his stories and a comprehensive survey of recent films that have drawn upon Lovecraft; James Goho studies the nature of the title character of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; and Christopher Cuccia closely analyzes John Milton’s influence on Lovecraft. A section of reviews examines three recent editions of Lovecraft’s letters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Acolyte of the Abyss: or, In the Long Shadow of the House at 454 Angell Street ....... Manuel Pérez-Campos
Astronomy with Lovecraft’s First Telescope ....... Horace A. Smith
The Detestation of Mammon in Lovecraft ....... Duncan Norris
Lovecraft and the Irish ....... Ken Faig, Jr.
Following The Ancient Track ....... David E. Schultz
Lovecraft’s Presentiment: Taphonomy as a Narrative and Horrific Element in the Tales of H. P. Lovecraft ....... Raphaël Hanon
The Promise of Cosmic Revelations: How the Landscape of Vermont Transforms “The Whisperer in Darkness”....... Dylan Henderson
H. P. Lovecraft’s First Appearance in Print Reconsidered ....... Brendan Whyte
New England Fallen ....... H. P. Lovecraft
A Bridge through Chaos: The Miltonic in “Dagon” and Lovecraft’s Greater Cthulhu Mythos ....... Christopher Cuccia
The Church That Inspired “The Horror at Red Hook” and the Fall of the House of Suydam ....... Marc Beherec
A Portrait of Charles Dexter Ward as a Haunted Young Man ....... James Goho
The Reverberation of Echoes: Lovecraft in Twenty-First-Century Cinema ....... Duncan Norris
How to Read Lovecraft ....... A Column by Steven J. Mariconda
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