As the 110th anniversary of Lovecraft’s birth approached, his reputation both popular and critical continued to grow. Despite the publication of several books by the academic press, there has been a paucity of journal articles outside of Lovecraft Studies. Attempts to place articles in non-specialist venues have met with limited success, although pieces such as Joyce Carol Oates’ positive assessment in the New York Review of Books have done as much to advance HPL’s reputation as Edmund Wilson’s earlier negative response did to impede it. This raises the question as to whether academic acceptance of Lovecraft should be the goal toward which scholars devote their energy. Would academic acceptance lead to a situation where he is more studied than read? The recent Penguin edition of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories for their “Twentieth-Century Classics” is a step in the right direction; after all, one advertising slogan for that series is “the library of every thinking person.” In the final analysis this is, in fact, how I think that Lovecraft would have liked to be remembered. 

Introduction by Scott Connors 

H. P. Lovecraft "Continuity" 

Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. "'The Silver Key' and Lovecraft's Childhood" 

David E. Schultz "Who Needs the Cthulhu Mythos?" 

Robert M. Price "Higher Criticism and the NECRONOMICON", by 

Jason C. Eckhardt "Beyond the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic in 1930" 

Robert Marten "Arkham Country: In Rescue of the Lost Searchers" 

Robert H. Waugh "Dr. Margaret Murray and H. P. Lovecraft: The Witch Cult in New England" 

S. T. Joshi "Humour and Satire in Lovecraft" 

Steven J, Mariconda "H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality" 

Robert H. Waugh "The Structural and Thematic Unity of FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH" 

Dan Clore "Metonyms of Alterity: A Semiotic Interpretation of FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH" 

James Anderson "'Pickman's Model': H. P. Lovecraft's Model of Terror" 

Donald R. Burleson "The Mythic Hero Archetype in 'The Dunwich Horror'" 

Donald R. Burleson "Prismatic Heroes: The Colour out of Dunwich" 

Carl J. Buchanan "'The Music of Eric Zann': A Psychological Interpretation (or Two)" 

Paul Montelone "The Vanity of Existence in 'The Shadow out of Time'" 

Steven J. Mariconda "Tightening the Coil: The Revision of 'The Whisperer in Darkness'" 

Clark Ashton Smith "H. P. L. " 

Selected Bibliography