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Table of ContentsLovecraft and Egypt: A Closer ExaminationDuncan NorrisForgotten Influence: A. Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss" and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Mound"Peter LeviEssential Saltes: Lovecraft's Witchcraft John SaloniaH. P. Lovecraft's Weird Body Alison SperlingQueer Geometry and Higher Dimensions: Mathematics in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Daniel M. LookPostcards to Jonathan E. Hoag H. P. LovecraftThe Mouse in the Walls: Disney, Lov...

This unique anthology assembles the best writings on atheism, agnosticism, and skepticism by some of the world's great thinkers past and present. Arranged to address the most significant questions pertaining to religious belief-the existence of God, immortality, the nature of religious belief, and religion in relation to science, ethics, politics, and society-the selections in this volume present a challenge to religion on all fronts.Included ...

Table of Contents Lovecraft's "The Bride of the Sea" and the Uses of Bathos.........Manuel Pérez-Campos Following "The Ancient Track".........Jonathan Adams Letters to Carl Ferdinand Strauch.........H. P. Lovecraft Appendix: A Library Goes Regionalist, by Carl F. Strauch The Construction of Race in the Early Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft.........Phillip A. Ellis The Ecstasies of "The Thing on the Doorstep, " "Medusa's Coil, " and Other Erotic Stud...

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The most exhaustive and comprehensive bibliography of the writings of H. L. Mencken ever assembled, this volume presents detailed information on Mencken's book publications from 1903 to the present. It also provides for the first time a comprehensive annotated listing of his magazine and newspaper work, including more than 1500 anonymous editorials for the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Evening Sun, and other papers, which have never been listed in ...

A witty examination of America's bestselling novels, covering works by Danielle Steel, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Nora Roberts, Mary Higgins Clark, Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and many others.

Table of Contents: Dispatches from the Providence Observatory: Astronomical Motifs and Sources in the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft......T. R. Livesey The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Hound"......James Goho Queer Tales? Sexuality, Race, and Architecture in "The Thing on the Doorstep"......Joel Pace "Clever Lines": Some Thoughts on Lovecraft's Ad Criticos......Phillip A. Ellis "The Rats in the Walls, " the Rats in the Trenches......

A fundamental requirement of Agenda 21 of UNCED is to support sustainable development while safeguarding the Earth's environment. This requires optimal management of natural resources which depends on the availability of reliable and timely information at the global, national, regional and local scales. One such technology, "Geoinformatics", consisting of Remote Sensing (RS), Geographical Information System (GIS), and Global Positioning System...

Noted Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi has authored a criticism of Lovecraftian and Cthulhu Mythos fiction, beginning with the stories by H.P. Lovecraft that gave birth to the entities, locales, books, and other plot devices that have come to be known as the "Cthulhu Mythos." Joshi further details the works of August Derleth, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Donald Wandrei, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber and other. Joshi t...

S. T. Joshi has established himself as a leading critic and scholar of the weird tale. Having begun by studying the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Joshi has expanded his interests to include the entire range of horror fiction from such classics as Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood to such contemporaries as Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, and Clive Barker. In this generous sampling of the reviews that Joshi has written in nearly thirty years as a cr...

Atheism, once a minority view, is now openly embraced by an increasing number of scientists, philosophers, politicians, and celebrities. How did this formerly closeted secular perspective gain its current prominence as a philosophically viable and challenging worldview? In this succinct history of modern atheism, a prolific author, editor, and scholar traces the development of atheist, agnostic, and secularist thought over the past century and...

Famous as a political, social and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner. This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.

Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi's definitive annotated bibliography to works by and about H.P. Lovecraft.

The leading critic of supernatural literature here examines the roots of the "weird tale" (as Lovecraft called it) through detailed examinations of five "founding fathers" of the genre: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, and H.P. Lovecraft. The result is a thorough study of the art, craft, philosophy, and aesthetics of an enduring genre of fantastic literature.

The leading critic of supernatural literature here examines the roots of the "weird tale" (as Lovecraft called it) through detailed examinations of five "founding fathers" of the genre: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, and H.P. Lovecraft. The result is a thorough study of the art, craft, philosophy, and aesthetics of an enduring genre of fantastic literature.

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The author writes: This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West, " in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader's Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account of his philosophical views. To treat so compl...