New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature

1.      1. Introduction: The Critical (After)Life of Supernatural Horror in Literature, Sean Moreland

 

SECTION 1: "THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST EMOTION:" THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COSMIC HORROR

 2.    2.  The Birth of Cosmic Horror from the S(ub)lime of Lucretius, Sean Moreland

3.    3.  The Evolution of Horror: A Neo-Lovecraftian Poetics, Mathias Clasen

4.    4.  Ansky's The Dybbuk, Freud's Future of an Illusion, Watson's Little Albert and Supernatural Horror in Literature, Sharon Packer, MD



5.    5.  Gazing Upon "The Daemons of Unplumbed Space" with H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King: Theorizing Horror and Cosmic Terror, Alissa Burger

 

SECTION 2: "A LITERATURE OF COSMIC FEAR:" LOVECRAFT, CRITICISM AND LITERARY HISTORY

 

6.    6.  "Lothly thinges thai weren alle": Imagining Horror in the Late Middle Ages, Helen Marshall

7.    7.  Lovecraft's Debt to Dandyism, Vivian Ralickas

8.    8.  Lovecraft and the Titans: A Critical Legacy, S. T. Joshi

9.    9.  Reception Claims in Supernatural Horror in Literature and the Course of Weird Fiction, John Glover

 

SECTION 3: "THE TRUE WEIRD:" (RE)DEFINING THE WEIRD

 

10. 10.  Bizarre Epistemology, Bizarre Subject:  A Definition of Weird Fiction, Michael Cisco

11. 11.  Women, Sex and the Dismorphmythic: Lovecraft, Carter, Kiernan and Beyond, Gina Wisker

12. 12.  Weird Cinema and the Aesthetics of Dread, Brian R. Hauser

13.13. Paranoia, Panic, and the Queer Weird, Brian Johnson

Sean Moreland is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and editor of The Lovecraftian Poe (2017).