The Lovecraftian Poe: essays on influence, reception, interpretation, and transformation 9781611462401, 9781611462418, 161146241X

Table of contents :
"The strangeness of my heritage": Lovecraft's Poe and the anxiety of indifference / Brian Johnson --
The call of Ligeia: influence and effect in Poe and Lovecraft / Dan Clinton --
Tekeli-li!: Poe, Lovecraft, and the suspicion of sameness / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock --
Cosmic horror and the supernatural in Poe and Lovecraft / Michael Cisco --
Descending spirits: ideological implications of the vertical movements in Poe and Lovecraft --
The fiery eyes: the black cats of Poe and Lovecraft / Robert H. Waugh --
Lovecraft's poetry and Poe's poetics / Sławomir Studniarz --
Rarebit dreamers: the poetics of Lovecraft, Poe, and Winsor McCay --
Poe/Lovecraft/Corman: the case of The Haunted Palace (1963) / Murray Leeder --
"You fancy me mad": the unreliable narrator's defense in Poe, Lovecraft, and King / Alissa Burger --
The killing crowd: Poe and the deep crime of the media / Ben Woodard --
"Not like any thing of ours": waking Poe and Lovecraft in Kiernan's The Drowning Girl / Sean Moreland --
Conversations among the dead: thoughts on Poe, Lovecraft, and influence / John Langan.