Ebook: Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming

Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft’s influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following lines:

• Adaptation of Lovecraft’s legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, and game artwork
• The connection between the writer’s legacy and his life
• Considering capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene when reading Lovecraft
• How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft’s fiction.
• Reading Lovecraft’s fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality