An Epicure in the Terrible
A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H.P. Lovecraft
| Editors: | | David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi. |
| Publisher: | | New York, NY, Hippocampus Press. |
| Date of publication: | | 2011. |
| Editions: | | Trade paperback. |
| Number of copies: | | Unknown. |
| Original Price: | | $20.00. |
| Number of pages: | | 380 pages. |
| Size: | | 9.4 x 6 inches. |
| ISBN: | | 9780984638611. |
 Front of Hardcover |
The cover depicts Virgil Finlay's portrait of H.P. Lovecraft.
Compared with the 1991 hardcover edition, citations to Lovecraft's work have been updated to reflect newer and more accurate editions that have appeared since 1991, and some of the essays have been revised in other particulars.
Contents:
- Introduction by S.T. Joshi.
I. Biographical.
- The Parents of Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
- The Cosmic Yankee by Jason C. Eckhardt.
- Lovecraft and the Pulp Magazine Tradition by Will Murray.
II: Thematic studies.
- On Lovecraft’s Themes: Touching the Glass by Donald R. Burleson.
- Letters, Diaries, and Manuscripts: The Handwritten Word in Lovecraft by Peter Cannon.
- Outsiders and Aliens: The Uses of Isolation in Lovecraft’s Fiction by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
- Lovecraft’s Cosmic Imagery by Steven J. Mariconda.
- From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Growth of Lovecraft’s Cosmic Vision by David E. Schultz.
- Landscapes, Selves, and Others in Lovecraft by Robert H. Waugh.
III: Comparative and genre studies.
- Lovecraft’s “Artificial Mythology” by Robert M. Price.
- Lovecraft and the Tradition of the Gentleman Narrator by R. Boerem.
- The Artist as Antaeus: Lovecraft and Modernism by Norman R. Gayford.
- Synchronistic Worlds: Lovecraft and Borges by Barton Levi St. Armand.