Lovecraft in the 21st Century

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.

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