Abstract

Price analyzes Lovecraft's "artificial mythology," reversing his earlier opinion (in Demythologizing Cthulhu) that entities like Cthulhu or Yog-Sothoth were initially intended as supernatural figures and later became aliens, but that from the first they were intended as alien intelligences who were grossly misunderstood by humans. The first part, "Cosmic Indifference" addresses this issue, while the second part "The Black Pantheon" describes how Lovecraft's mythology was misinterpreted by August Derleth and others.

Works Cited

Articles

• A Literary Copernicus
• Demythologizing Cthulhu
• H. P. Lovecraft: Myth Maker
• The Origin of Lovecraft's "Black Magic" Quote
• The Revision Mythos

Books

• Collected Essays
• Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft

Letters

• 000-0284
• 000-0322
• 000-0421
• 000-0466
• 000-0717
• 000-0875

Cited By

TBD

Included In

• An Epicure in the Terrible (1991)
• An Epicure in the Terrible (2011)