Lovecraft in the 21st Century

Dead, But Still Dreaming

Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Carl H. Sederholm, Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Carl H. Sederholm

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780367713089
• eBook ISBN: 9781000531657
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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:

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• Adaptation of Lovecraft's legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and game artwork

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• The connection between the writer's legacy and his life

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• Reading Lovecraft in light of contemporary criticism about capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene

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• How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft's fiction

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• Reading Lovecraft's fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Lovecraft and the Stage A Recent (Re)Discovery
• 2 Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO’s True Detective (2014)
• 3 An Uncanny Absence Lovecraft in Brazilian Cinema, 1975–2016
• 4 The Masks of E’ch-Pi-El Interpreting the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft
• 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)
• 6 Man or Cartoon H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics Character
• 7 Drawing the Unknowable—Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in Magic The Gathering and Hearthstone
• 8 Nuclear Inhumanities H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” and the Dread of Contamination
• 9 An Eldritch Crisis Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos
• 10 Lovecraft’s Viral Networks A Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene
• 11 “It Was the Vegetation” Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
• 12 Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank’s Underwater
• 13 Racial (In)Visibility, Cosmic Indifference Reimagining H.P. Lovecraft’s Legacy in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)
• 14 Finding “Something and Not Nothing” Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century
• 15 The Crawling Chaos H.P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and “Dungeon Crawler” Videogames
• 16 Dreaming in Layers Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media
• 17 “Bringing … Uncertain Geographies Under … Control”? Exploring the Lovecraftian ‘Walking Simulator’
• 18 Queering Cthulhu Reclaiming Lovecraft’s Monstrous Others
• 19 Weird Bedfellows H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne & Griffin Series1
• 20 Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability
• 21 Falling into the Void “Nyarlathotep”
• Index