Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture

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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 century.These stories have been previously published but are now gathered together to create this excellent and diverse anthology.

Contents

xiii • The "Shadow" over Lovecraft • • essay by Jim Turner
3 • Her Misbegotten Son • • novella by Alan Rodgers
50 • Daoine Domhain • • novelette by Peter Tremayne
70 • To Mars and Providence • [War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches] • • short story by Don Webb
81 • Weird Tales • • short story by Fred Chappell
91 • The Land of the Reflected Ones • • short story by Nancy A. Collins
102 • The Shadow at the Bottom of the World • • short story by Thomas Ligotti
111 • Sensible City • • short story by Harlan Ellison
119 • The Golden Keeper • • novella by Ian R. MacLeod
165 • Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir • • short story by Ron Goulart
169 • Crouch End • [Cthulhu Mythos] • • novelette by Stephen King
194 • The Turret • • novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
221 • The Giant Rat of Sumatra • • novelette by Paula Volsky
243 • Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole • [Frankenstein Universe] • • novelette by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley
279 • The Other Dead Man • • short story by Gene Wolfe
299 • The Events at Poroth Farm • • novella by T. E. D. Klein
339 • The Ocean and All Its Devices • • novelette by William Browning Spencer
357 • A Bit of the Dark World • • novelette by Fritz Leiber
386 • The Perseids • • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson