S. T. Joshi - Dissecting Cthulhu

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S. T. Joshi (ed.) – Dissecting Cthulhu (Miskatonic River Press, 2011, 269 pages)

Content:

Introduction by S. T. Joshi

I. SOME OVERVIEWS
Richard L. Tierney - The Derleth Mythos
Dirk W. Mosig - H. P. Lovecraft: Myth-Maker
David E. Schultz - Who Needs the "Cthulhu Mythos"?
Simon MacCulloch - Lovecraft Waits Dreaming
S. T. Joshi - The Cthulhu Mythos: Lovecraft vs. Derleth
Steven J. Mariconda - Toward a Reader-Response Approach to the Lovecraft Mythos

II. THE BOOKS
Robert M. Price - Genres in the Lovecraftian Library
Robert M. Price - Higher Criticism and the Necronomicon
Dan Clore - The Lurker at the Threshold of Interpretation

III. THE GODS
Robert M. Price - Demythologizing Cthulhu
Robert M. Price - The Last Vestige of the Derleth Mythos
Will Murray - Behind the Mask of Nyarlathotep
Will Murray - On the Nature of Nug and Yeb

IV. THE LANDSCAPE
Robert D. Marten - Arkham Country: In Rescue of the Lost Searchers
Will Murray - Where Was Foxfield?
Edward W. O'Brien - Lovecraft's Two Views of Arkham

V. INFLUENCES
Marco Frenschkowski - Hali
by Jason C. Eckhardt - Cthulhu's Scald: Lovecraft and the Nordic Tradition
David E. Schultz - The Origin of Lovecraft's "Black Magic" Quote
Robert M. Price - Robert E. Howard and the Cthulhu Mythos
Stefan Dziemianowicz - Divers Hands

Suggestions for Further Reading

This is a collection of essays mostly culled from publications like Crypt of Cthulhu and Lovecraft Studies. The earliest is Richard L. Tierney's (in)famous essay The Derleth Mythos from 1972, the rest is dated from the 1980s to the end of the 1990s. There is a lot of nitpicking going on, but there are also some major cornerstones of Lovecraft research and commentary.