By Gavin Callaghan
Back Cover Text
This volume attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American
horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary accounts and various received truths, Gavin
Callaghan goes back to the weird texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into
an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted classicism, in which Lovecraft’s
parental obsessions were twisted into the all-powerful cosmic monsters of his imaginary
cosmology.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sympathy for the Shoggoths
- One • Dark Arcadia: Arcadia, Arkham and H. P. Lovecraft’s Process of
Classical Inversion
- Two • The Birds and the Bees (According to H. P. Lovecraft)
- Three • Secrets Behind the Locked Door: Lovecraft and the Theseus Myth
- Four • From the Moon to the Pit: Lovecraft’s Moon-Ladder
- Five • Lovecraft’s In Memoriam: Phillips Gamwell and the Innsmouth
Coda
- Six • H. P. Lovecraft and the Magna Mater
- Appendix
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliographic Information
H.P. Lovecraft’s Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction. By Gavin
Callaghan. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co.; 2013; ISBN 978-0-7864-7079-2;
softcover; 288 pages.
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