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Informationen zum Autor Robert H. Waugh is professor emeritus in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a leading Lovecraft scholar, whose books include The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft (2006) and A Monster of Voices: Speaking for H. P. Lovecraft (2011). Klappentext Recognized as a major innovator in the weird story, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an author whose influence was felt by nearly every writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. In H. P. Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors, Robert H. Waugh has assembled a collection of essays that not only examine the effect Lovecraft's work has had-and continues to have-on writers, but how Lovecraft's writing was shaped by those who preceded him. Chapters in this collection are devoted to authors such as Jonathan Swift, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti, Stephen King and more. This is a volume that may be useful to academics and students who are starting out with Lovecraft. It may be especially useful to advanced university students who are required by their thesis supervisor to pair Lovecraft with another author. I did find some topics neatly summed up and clarified. Tentaclii: H.P. Lovecraft Blog" Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Lovecraft's Predecessors Biblical Bits in Lovecraft; Robert M. Price Queen Anne Is [Not] Dead: Lovecraft and the Augustans; J. D. Worthington The Shape of Darkness: Origins for H. P. Lovecraft within the American Gothic Tradition; James Goho Hawthorne's Influence on Lovecraft; Donald R. Burleson Hearken . . . I Can Tell You the Whole Story: Monologues and Confessions in the Early Works of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe; Alex Houstoun Lovecraft's Debt to Lord Dunsany; Darrell Schweitzer A Reprehensible Habit: H. P. Lovecraft and the Munsey Magazines; Gavin Callaghan Green StormRising: Lovecraft's Roots in Invasion Literature; T. R. Livesey Part II: Lovecraft's Successors What Stays in Lovecraft's Sieve Once Frank Belknap Long Is Strained Through It; Norm Gayford From the Cosmic to the Human: H. P. Lovecraft's Influence on Ramsey Campbell; S. T. Joshi Lovecraft's Influence in Science Fiction: The Tides of His Dark Star in the Works of Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber, and Philip K. Dick; Robert H. Waugh Reanimator and Exterminator: H. P. Lovecraft and William S. Burroughs; Michael Cisco Nature's Other, Ghastly Face: H. P. Lovecraft and the Animal Sublime in Stephen King; John Langan Easy as Falling Off Logic: A Consideration of Lovecraft and Ligotti as "Weird Realists"; Steven J. Mariconda Bibliography Index About the Contributors About the Editor ...
