The Age of Lovecraft

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The Age of Lovecraft is the first sustained analysis of Howard Phillips Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture. This volume offers the most thorough examination of Lovecraft's place in contemporary philosophy to date as it seeks to shed light on the larger phenomenon of the dominance of weird fiction in the twenty-first century.

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"The scholarship throughout is sharp, current, and often makes use of one of the greatest strengths of Lovecraft study: his abundant published correspondence."Publishers Weekly

"An excellent read for the committed Lovecraft scholar."Fortean Times

"[An] excellent collection of scholarly essays."PopMatters

"Lovecrafts many and deep flaws are almost beside the point he was a writer who achieved importance by saying one or two things memorably and very clearly. This is why Lovecraft is an important figure not only in popular culture but in other disciplines as well."Times Literary Supplement

"Highly recommended."CHOICE

"Sederholm and Weistock perform an exemplary balancing act in neither dodging the controversies surrounding Lovecrafts grotesque racism nor granting that the issue diminishes the legitimacy of scholarly interest in the author or his work. Lovecraft scholars will find much of interest here, but so too will anyone wanting further insight into the ongoing cultural resonances of various (and often noxious) early twentieth-century neuroses."Paradoxa

"A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on Lovecraft."Los Angeles Review of Books

"A total success."Journal of Popular Culture

Author Bio

Carl H. Sederholm is associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Brigham Young University. He is the coauthor of Poe, The House of Usher, and the American Gothic and the coeditor of Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture.

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University. He has edited three volumes of Lovecrafts fiction.

Ramsey Campbell is one of the worlds most honored horror writers. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association, a Living Legend Award from the International Horror Guild, and a Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention.

China Miville is a fantasy fiction author, comic writer, and academic. His books includePerdido Street Station, The City & the City, and Kraken. His works have won the Hugo, the British Science Fiction Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the World Fantasy Award.