Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture

Fantasist H. P. Lovecraft enjoys an honor shared by few other authors of imaginative fiction -- since his death, the term Lovecraftian has come into worldwide use to describe a body of work so fully realized as to influence countless generations of subsequent writers. Each author in this volume came under the Lovecraftian conjuration and then wrote a story that in some way reflects this experience, providing compelling testimony that H. P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential writers of the 20(th) century.These stories have been previously published but are now gathered together to create this excellent and diverse anthology.Contents (view Concise Listing) xiii • The "Shadow" over Lovecraft • (1998) • essay by Jim Turner 3 • Her Misbegotten Son • (1996) • novella by Alan Rodgers 50 • Daoine Domhain • (1992) • novelette by Peter Tremayne 70 • To Mars and Providence • [War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches] • (1996) • short story by Don Webb 81 • Weird Tales • (1984) • short story by Fred Chappell 91 • The Land of the Reflected Ones • (1995) • short story by Nancy A. Collins 102 • The Shadow at the Bottom of the World • (1990) • short story by Thomas Ligotti 111 • Sensible City • (1994) • short story by Harlan Ellison 119 • The Golden Keeper • (1997) • novella by Ian R. MacLeod 165 • Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir • (1959) • short story by Ron Goulart 169 • Crouch End • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1980) • novelette by Stephen King 194 • The Turret • (1995) • novelette by Richard A. Lupoff 221 • The Giant Rat of Sumatra • (1996) • novelette by Paula Volsky 243 • Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole • [Frankenstein Universe] • (1977) • novelette by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley 279 • The Other Dead Man • (1988) • short story by Gene Wolfe 299 • The Events at Poroth Farm • (1972) • novella by T. E. D. Klein 339 • The Ocean and All Its Devices • (1994) • novelette by William Browning Spencer 357 • A Bit of the Dark World • (1962) • novelette by Fritz Leiber 386 • The Perseids • (1995) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson