Lovecraft and a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H. P. Lovecraft

Introduction - 7 I. Biographical Studies - 11 Lovecraft and Weird Tales - 13 Further Notes on Lovecraft and Music - 22 Lovecraft's Library - 27 Lovecraft's Revisions: How Much of Them Did He Write? - 31 Lovecraft and his Wife - 46 Lovecraft and the Films of His Day - 49 The Rationale of Lovecraft's Pseudonyms - 53 Lovecraft and the Munsey Magazines - 62 Barbarism vs. Civilization: Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft in Their Correspondence - 73 II. Philosophical Studies - 97 The Political and Economical Thought of H. P. Lovecraft - 99 "Reality" and Knowledge: Some Notes on Lovecraft's Aesthetic - 105 In Defence of Dagon and Lovecraft's Philosophy - 115 Lovecraft's Alien Civilisations: A Political Interpretation - 122 Lovecraft and a World in Transition - 144 Lovecraft and the "Big Issue" - 157 H. P. Lovecraft: The Fiction of Materialism - 160 Lovecraft and Religion - 182 Time, Space, and Natural Law: Science and Pseudo-Science in Lovecraft - 191 III. Thematic and Textual Studies - 217 Autobiography in Lovecraft - 219 Lovecraft's Other Planets - 232 Textual Problems in Lovecraft - 243 The Structure of Lovecraft's Longer Narratives - 258 The Dream World and the Real World in Lovecraft - 275 Topical References in Lovecraft - 289 Humour and Satire in Lovecraft - 308 A Guide to the Lovecraft Fiction Manuscripts at the John Hay Library - 322 IV. Studies of Individual Works - 341 Who Wrote "The Mound"? - 343 On "The Book" - 347 On "Polaris" - 352 On "The Tree on the Hill" - 357 Lovecraft and the Regnum Congo - 362 The Sources for "From Beyond" - 367 On "The Descendent" - 372 What Happens in "Arthur Jermyn" - 375 "The Tree" and Ancient History - 378 Lovecraft and Dunsany's Chronicles of Rodriguez - 383 Same Sources for "The Mound" and At the Mountains of Madness - 388 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - 393 Excised Passages from "The Thing on the Doorstep" - 410 V. On Lovecraft's Essays, Poems, and Letters - 417 "History of the Necronomicon" - 419 "Supernatural Horror in Literature" - 422 Two Spurious Lovecraft Poems - 437 A Look at Lovecraft's Letters - 440 Lovecraft's Fantastic Poetry - 453 Lovecraft, Regner Lodbrog, and Olaus Wormius - 465 Lovecraft's Essays - 473 VI. On Lovecraft's Legacy and Influence - 499 The Development of Lovecraftian Studies: 1971-1982 - 501 R. H. Barlow and the Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft - 539 A Literary Tutelage: Robert Bloch and H. P. Lovecraft - 548 Passing the Torch: H. P. Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber - 566 Lovecraft at Last - 579 The Cthulhu Mythos - 585 The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft, 1937-2013 - 616 Sources - 621 Index - 625