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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Myth and Monstrosity: The Dark Realms of H. P. Lovecraft and Guillermo del Toro
Author : Rebecca Janicker
Published in: The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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This chapter explores the connections between the works of two significant and charismatic figures in the field of horror. The first is New England native H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), renowned for a relatively small—yet distinctive and resoundingly influential—corpus of fiction that originally appeared in pulp magazines and has only recently been canonized through its inclusion in the Penguin Modern Classics and Library of America series. The second is Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro (1964–), who has made a name for himself over the last two decades with a body of films that, though generically diverse—embracing elements of action, thriller, fantasy, fairy tale, and science fiction—is nonetheless unified by a frequent utilization of the themes and iconography of horror.