The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales (55 page)

⁶
On Schultz’s conception of an “anti-mythology” see “From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Growth of
Lovecraft’s Cosmic Vision” in S. T. Joshi’s
An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H. P. Lovecraft
(Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 1991). The quotation comes from Lovecraft’s
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
(Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Penguin Books, 1999), xvii.

⁷
H. P. Lovecraft,
Supernatural Horror in Literature
(New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1973), 14.

THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO

¹
Here is a lesson in scientific accuracy for fiction writers. I have just looked up the moon’s phases for October, 1894,
to find when a gibbous moon was visible at 2 am, and have changed the dates to fit!!

²
Motto of “A Descent into the Maelstrom.”

³
Prescott,
Conquest of Mexico.

SUGGESTED READING

BURLESON, DONALD R.
Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe
. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

HOUELLEBECQ, MICHEL.
H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
. Translated by Dorna Khazeni. Introduction by Stephen King. San Francisco, CA:
Believer Books, 2005.

JOSHI, S. T.,
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life
. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996.

JOSHI, S. T., ED.
H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism
. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1980.

LÉVY, MAURICE.
Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic.
Trans. S. T. Joshi. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988.

SCHULTZ, DAVID E., AND S. T. JOSHI, EDS.
An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H. P. Lovecraft
. Rutherford, NJ:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991.

SMITH, DON. G.
H. P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture: The Works and Their Adaptations in Film, Television, Comics, Music and Games
. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006.

ST. ARMAND, BARTON L.
H. P. Lovecraft: New England Decadence
. Albuquerque: Silver Scarab Press, 1979.