Lovecraft in the 21st Century Dead, But Still Dreaming

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: Adaptation of Lovecraft’s legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and gameartwork The connection between the writer’s legacy and his life Reading Lovecraft in light of contemporary criticism about capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft’s fiction Reading Lovecraft’s fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality

Introduction Antonio Alcala Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm Lovecraft and the Stage: A Recent (Re)Discovery Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO’s True Detective (2014) Elisabete Lopes An Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian cinema, 1975-2016 Lúcio Reis Filho and Sheila Schvarzman The Masks of E’ch-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H. P. Lovecraft John Glover "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) Stuart L. Lindsay Man or Cartoon: H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics Character Tom Shapira Drawing the Unknowable - Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone Suzanne Albary and Richard Albary Nuclear Inhumanities: H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and the Dread of Contamination Ian Fetters An Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos Daniel Doncel Lovecraft’s Viral Networks: A Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene Natasha Rebry Coulthard "It Was the Vegetation": Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Fredrik Blanc Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene: Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank’s Underwater Antonio Alcala Gonzalez Racial (in)visibility, cosmic indifference: Reimagining H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom (2016) Kathleen Hudson Finding "Something and Not Nothing:" Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century Loren Barbour The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and "Dungeon Crawler" Videogames Kevin Corstorphine and Matt Crofts Dreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media Eoin Murray "Bringing … Uncertain Geographies Under … Control"? Exploring the Lovecraftian ‘Walking Simulator’ David Simmons Queering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft’s Monstrous Others Nowell Marshall Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, M/M Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne & Griffin Series Brian Johnson Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability Michael Cerliano Falling into the Void: "Nyarlathotep" Carl H. Sederholm

Antonio Alcala Gonzalez is founder of the International Gothic Literature Congress and chair of the Humanities Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City. Carl H. Sederholm is professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University and chair of the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters.