Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “A Certain Resemblance”: Abject Hybridity in H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Fiction

Chapter 3 “Spawn of the Pit”: Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa, and All Things Foul: H. P. Lovecraft’s Liminal Women

Chapter 4 “The Infinitude of the Shrieking Abysses”: Rooms, Wombs, Tombs, and the Hysterical Female Gothic in “The Dreams in the Witch-House”

Chapter 5 Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism

Chapter 6 Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft’s Mirages

Chapter 7 On “The Dunwich Horror”

Chapter 8 The Shadow over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu

Chapter 9 From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H. P. Lovecraft

Chapter 11 “Sounds Which Filled Me with an Indefinable Dread”: The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H. P. Lovecraft in “Extreme” Metal

Chapter 12 “Comrades in Tentacles”: H. P. Lovecraft and China Miéville

Chapter 13 Tentacles and Teeth: The Lovecraftian Being in Popular Culture