Children Of Lovecraft by Ellen Datlow (ed.)(.ePUB)
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Children Of Lovecraft by Ellen Datlow (Editor)
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Overview: This is my third Lovecraftian anthology. I and other members of the genre are often asked about the persistence of H. P. Lovecraft’s influence on our field. What makes Lovecraft still relevant today and even more popular than back in his day? Lovecraft’s influence on the field of horror has been enormous. During his lifetime and soon after, a whole subgenre developed of what today we would call fan fiction. Writers among his circle of friends and acquaintances used his mythos to emulate and/or expand upon his work. Some of the resulting pieces of fiction were pastiches; some were more ambitious, more artful.
Scholars have been dissecting his work and his personal life for decades and I think their obsessions have helped keep his work alive. One does not have to love the man to appreciate and give credit to his work. For me, it’s the sheer inventiveness of his mythos. The new generation of writers “playing” in his playground are doing very different things. The best have removed many of the trappings, bringing a freshness to the core elements of Mythos fiction.
But the why of it? More difficult to analyze: perhaps because his vision of cosmic horror and of the existence of or return of Elder Gods that control human destiny is creepy and effective and has always been so, even though his prose was often clumsy and overblown. I’ve never enjoyed pastiches of his work because they take the worst of it (his use of language), rehashing his plots and characters without adding anything new. This is exactly why when I edit an anthology of Lovecraftian stories, I encourage my contributors to create stories using the best of Lovecraft (the terror of the cosmic unknown, and his vision) to explore new themes, new horrors. In this volume are fourteen original stories and novelettes by writers who have done just that.
Genre: Fiction | Horror | Anthology
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