Table of Contents
Preliminary Note vi
Part 1 Lovecraft and Philosophy 1
A Writer of Gaps and Horror 2
The Problem with Paraphrase 7
The Inherent Stupidity of All Content 11
The Background of Being 15
Not Unfaithful to the Spirit of the Thing 24
The Phenomenological Gap 28
A Lovecraftian Ontography 33
On Ruination 38
A Lonely and Curious Country 42
Comic and Tragic Intentionality 45
Style and Content 50
Part 2 Lovercraft's Style at Work 53
The Call of Cthunlhu 54
The Colour Out of Space 78
The Dunwich Horror 98
The Whisperer in Darkness 121
At the Mountains of Madness 148
The Shadow over Innsmouth 173
The Dreams in the Witch House 194
The Shadow Out of Time 215
Part 3 Weird Realism 231
Gathering the Threads 232
Fusion 237
Fission 241
The Taxonomic Fallacy 244
Weird Content 251