Edited by Dennis P. Quinn and Elena Tchougounova-Paulson
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This fourth volume of selected papers from the Dr. Henry M. Armitage Memorial Scholarship
Symposium, delivered at NecronomiCon Providence 2019, contains an array of groundbreaking articles
on Lovecraft’s life, work, and thought. Papers by Kyle Gamache and Thomas Schwaiger focus on
Lovecraft’s relations with his brilliant young friend R. H. Barlow, whose story “The
Night Ocean” is one of the finest weird tales of its era. Elena Tchougounova-Paulson and
Christian Roy address connections between Lovecraft’s work and that of the philosophers
Alexander Blok and Georges Bataille.
Benjamin Davis studies contemporary views of Tibet in reference to Lovecraft’s citation of
that obscure realm. Heather Poirier traces the relationship of Lovecraft’s work with the
Southern literature of his time, while Jeremiah Dylan Cook probes the influence of Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Herbert S. Gorman on “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” Other papers discuss
the Necronomicon, such seminal tales as “The Outsider,” “Pickman’s
Model,” “The Colour out of Space,” and At the Mountains of Madness, and
other vital topics. In all, the essays in this volume constitute cutting-edge scholarship on one of
the most provocative authors of his time.
Contents
- Foreword by Niels-Viggo S. Hobbs
- Introduction: Haunting Phantasms—A Bookworm Edition by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson and
Dennis P. Quinn
- Żaḥḥāk Beside Cthulhu: Philosophizing with Monsters in Persian Mythology
and American Horror by Robert Landau Ames
- The Influence of The Great Game on the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft: The Opening of Tibet and
the Creation of Leng by Benjamin Davis
- The Necronomicon Yalensis and Lovecraft in Connecticut by Edward Guimont
- Lovecraft’s Archive: Materiality and Readership in Lovecraft’s Fiction by Cole
Donovan
- The Outsiders: Mapping Lovecraft’s Loathing by Paul Neimann
- The Ebb of Sanity: “The Night Ocean” and Bipolar Disorder by Kyle Gamache
- The Weird Within the Real: Common Territories in Lovecraft’s Fiction and Southern
Literature by Heather Poirier
- A Lover of Past Phantoms: Lovecraftian Reflections in R. H. Barlow’s Life and Work by
Thomas Schwaiger
- American Frankensteins: George Porter and George Poe, and Their Attempts to Reanimate the Dead
in New England by Michael J. Bielawa
- Encounters in the Mountains of Madness: H. P. Lovecraft and Werner Herzog at the World’s
End by Lúcio Reis-Filho, Laura Cánepa, and Jamer de Mello
- Fear and (Non) Fiction: Agrarian Anxiety in “The Colour out of Space” by Antonio
Alejandro Barroso
- Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herbert S. Gorman’s Shadows over Innsmouth by Jeremiah Dylan
Cook
- Neo-Gothic Decadence as a Pervasive Challenge in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen,
and Alexander Blok by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson
- Lovecraft’s Accursed Share in Bataille’s General Economy: Antiutilitarian
Cosmologies and Anti-capitalist Social Visions by Christian Roy
- A Sequence of Paintings So Horrible: Montage in Visual Adaptations of “Pickman’s
Model” by Nathaniel R. Wallace
- Contributors
- Appendix: Abstracts from the Fourth Biennial Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium
of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research Providence, RI, 23–25 August 2019 by
Dennis P. Quinn, Chair
- Index
Bibliographic Information
Lovecraftian Proceedings Number 4. Edited by Dennis P. Quinn and Elena
Tchougounova-Paulson. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2022; ISBN 978-1-61498-361-3; paperback;
304 pages.
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