Weird Words - A Lovecraftian Lexicon (Paperback, New)

Eldritch . . . cacodaemoniacal . . . lucubration . . . Have you ever wondered about the meaning of these and other esoteric words used by Lovecraft and his colleagues? In this immense dictionary, the product of years of scholarship and research, Dan Clore not only defines thousands of words found in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others, but supplies their derivation and, most impressively, provides parallel usages of the words from centuries of English usage, citing authors ranging from Cotton Mather to Henry Kuttner, from Edmund Spenser to Samuel R. Delany. This is a volume that scholars of English usage, enthusiasts of fantasy and horror literature, and readers who love the beauty of the English language will find richly rewarding . . . either to read from beginning to end or to dip into as the mood strikes them. Dan Clore is a free-lance writer and scholar who has published articles in Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Weird Fiction and numerous other journals and critical anthologies. His fiction is collected in The Unspeakable and Others, first published in 2001.

General

Imprint:	Hippocampus Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Daniel Clore
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	572
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-9824296-4-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > Dictionaries of quotations
LSN:	0-9824296-4-9
Barcode:	9780982429648

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