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

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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 lines: Adaptation of Lovecraft’s legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, and game artwork The connection between the writer’s legacy and his life Considering capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene when reading Lovecraft 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 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 Index