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H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism

S. T. Joshi

First published 1980
Publisher Ohio University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xv+247
Price $15.00
ISBN 0821404423

Anthology of criticism edited by S. T. Joshi.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 H. P. Lovecraft: His Life and Work S. T. Joshi & Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. Essay
20 Lovecraft Criticism: A Study S. T. Joshi Essay
27 A Chronology of Selected Works by H. P. Lovecraft S. T. Joshi Essay
43 H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation T. O. Mabbott Essay
46 Tales of the Marvellous and Ridiculous Edmund Wilson Essay
50 A Literary Copernicus Fritz Leiber, Jr. Essay
63 From The Supernatural in Fiction (excerpt) Peter Penzoldt Essay
79 The Cthulhu Mythos: A Study George T. Wetzel Essay
96 Some Notes on Cthulhuian Pseudobiblia Edward Lauterbach Essay
104 H. P. Lovecraft: Myth-Maker Dirk W. Mosig Essay
113 On the Literary Influences Which Shaped Lovecraft's Works J. Vernon Shea Essay
140 Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin: Lovecraft's Contribution to Speculative Fiction Fritz Leiber, Jr. Essay
153 The Influence of Vathek on H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath Peter Cannon Essay
158 Poe and Lovecraft Robert Bloch Essay
161 H.P. Lovecraft in Hawthornian Perspective Peter Cannon Essay
166 Facts in the Case of H. P. Lovecraft Barton L. St. Armand Essay
186 "The White Ship": A Psychological Odyssey Dirk W. Mosig Essay
191 Lovecraft and the Cosmic Quality in Fiction Richard L. Tierney Essay
196 Dystopia as Utopia: Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Unknown Content of American Horror Literature Paul Buhle Essay
211 A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet Winfield Townley Scott Essay
217 A Lovecraftian Nightmare R. Boerem Essay
222 The Continuity of the Fungi from Yuggoth R. Boerem Essay
227 To Howard Phillips Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith Poem
229 Appendix I: The Collected Works of H. P. Lovecraft uncredited Essay
232 Appendix II: Supplementary Readings uncredited Essay
xiii Preface (H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism) S. T. Joshi Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism Cover 1981 Ohio University Press Trade Paperback Nonfiction xv+247