Edited by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson
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This fifth volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings, gathering together the choicest papers
delivered at the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium at the 2022 NecronomiCon,
features an array of pioneering and provocative essays on numerous aspects of H. P.
Lovecraft’s work. N. R. Jenzen-Jones, George Colclough, and Hans-Christian Vortisch address a
subject that has never been broached before—Lovecraft’s complex relationship with
firearms and his use of such weapons in his fiction. Benjamin Breyer studies Lovecraft’s
treatment of the continental drift theory in At the Mountains of Madness; Daniel J. Holmes
and Joshua E. Shockley IV probe the influence of Lovecraft on video games, while Heather Miller
focuses on Lovecraft’s presence in punk rock. Other essays deal with such issues as the use
of Lovecraftian elements by the controversial philosopher Nick Land; the role of sexuality
(including homoeroticism and asexuality) in Lovecraft’s life and work; Lovecraft’s
influence on Cormac McCarthy; and other vital subjects. Collectively, these papers point to the
enduring status of H. P. Lovecraft as an author of inexhaustible depth and continued relevance in
contemporary culture.
Contents
- Preface by Niels-Viggo S. Hobbs
- Foreword by Dennis P. Quinn
- Introduction: “Lovecraftian myth in the making: acquiring the path” by Elena
Tchougounova-Paulson
- “Relatively Obscure Men”: Continental Drift Theory and the Sociology of Science in
At the Mountains of Madness by Benjamin Breyer
- Charting Ecologies of Violence through Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” by
Matthew Holder
- Inappropriate Death and the Body as Object in “The Hound” and “Herbert
West—Reanimator” by Nicolette A. Williams
- “The Call of Cthulhu” and the Rhetoric of Things by Michelle Saavedra
- Lovecraftian Elements in the Philosophy of Nick Land and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
by Robert Landau Ames
- Firearms in the Life and Works of H. P. Lovecraft by N. R. Jenzen-Jones, George Colclough, and
Hans-Christian Vortisch
- Transdimensional Voices in Weird Fiction: Reverb, Echo, and Delay in Sound-Related Texts by
Nathaniel R. Wallace
- Digital Dream-Quests: A Collaborative Project in Lovecraftian Game Studies by Daniel J.
Holmes
- Hereditary Memories of Fright: The Gaming Industry’s Response to Lovecraft’s
Xenophobia as Viewed through Most Recent Major Releases by Joshua E. Shockley IV
- Asexual Possibility in the Life and Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft by Riley Chirrick
- Toward a Definition of Lovecraft Punk by Heather Miller
- The Window to Madness: Creativity in Lovecraftian Fiction by Kyle Gamache
- Lovecraftian Elements in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Zachary K.
Rutledge
- Gnosticism, Epicureanism, and Deism in H. P. Lovecraft’s Fictive Cosmology by Lorin
Geitner
- Naked Sailors in a Swamp: Sea Men and Homoerotic Initiations in Three Lovecraft Tales by Peter
Muise
- Appendix: Abstracts from The Fifth Biennial Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium
of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research Providence, RI, 19–21 August 2022 by
Dennis P. Quinn, Chair
- Contributors
- Index
Bibliographic Information
Lovecraftian Proceedings Number 5. Edited by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. New York, NY:
Hippocampus Press; 2024; ISBN 978-1-61498-450-4; paperback; 320 pages.
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