This is the scholarly heart of this text, and it’s a mostly excellent overview not just of aspects of Lovecraft’s writings but also of approaches to literary criticism. Joshi, undoubtedly the most prominent scholar of Lovecraft writing today, but also a range of other writers less well-known for Lovecraft scholarship. The second section is a group of essays of literary criticism, including an almost obligatory piece from S.T. This provides a good overview of Lovecraft’s writings for the primary intended audience. The first, after a brief preface, is a selection Lovecraft’s writings, including five of the usually accepted “major” mature works of fiction, plus the brief “History of the Necronomicon”, a lightly edited version of the essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, and selections of poetry (the savagely satirical “Waste Paper”, and the complete “Fungi from Yuggoth” cycle). This volume, edited by American Literature professor and Lovecraft fan Leverett Butts, falls into three main sections.
It thus serves a purpose as a one-stop, all-in-one package to introduce Lovecraft in a scholarly context, but it may well interest a wider audience, of those keenly interested in Lovecraft’s writings and are willing to dip their toes into a more academic milieu, even if they aren’t literature students themselves (or their lit professor). This is a volume intended for use as a college text, collecting some of Lovecraft’s writings, critical essays by scholars of Lovecraft, and a selection of interviews and personal essays from writers influenced by Lovecraft.
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