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

Colebrook, Martyn

doi:10.1057/9781137320964_12

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Immigration and miscegenation represented the most problematic of such forces within Lovecraft's perspective. His anti-immigrant sympathies led him at times beyond nationalism to flirtations with fascism, and his disgust with the influx of racially ambiguous and dark-skinned immigrants into New England has been well documented (Colebrook 2013). His short-lived marriage to Sonia Greene, a Jewish woman and herself an immigrant, apparently did not change these feelings.…”

Section: Shadow Over Innsmouthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Altar Call of Cthulhu: Religion and Millennialism in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos

Zeller

2019

Religions

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Religion suffuses H.P. Lovecraft's (1890Lovecraft's ( -1937 short stories-the most famous of which, "The Call of Cthulhu," has led to a literary subculture and a shared mythos employed by Lovecraft's successors. Despite this presence of religion in Lovecraft's work, scholars of religion have paid relatively little attention to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos, with a few notable exceptions. This article offers a close analysis of millennialism within Lovecraft's thought, especially as expressed in three of his "Cthulhu mythos" stories: "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dunwich Horror," and "The Shadow over Innsmouth." This article considers Lovecraft's formative experiences and non-fiction writings so as to contextualize his approach and millennial outlook. Tied to his nativist views of social decline, I argue that Lovecraft expresses in his fiction a peculiar form of millennialism, "anti-millennialism," which entails the reversal of traditional millennialism, offering no hope in a collective salvation, but rather expectation that the imminent future would bring only decline.

show abstract

Section: Shadow Over Innsmouthmentioning

confidence: 99%