Neil Gaiman on H.P. Lovecraft

[eldritchhobbit]

I am trying to be certain I have found all of Neil Gaiman's works directly related to H.P. Lovecraft.

My list at present includes the following:

1. "I Cthulhu: or What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47 ° 9’ S, Longitude 126 ° 43’ W)?"
* originally published in 1986, now online

2. "Only The End of the World Again"
* originally published in 1994 in Shadows Over Innsmouth

3. "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar"
* originally published in 1998 in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy

[Both "Only The End of the World Again" and "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" are also available in Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions]

4. "A Study in Emerald"
* originally published in 2003 in Shadows over Baker Street, now online
* 2004 Hugo Award Winner

Also, there's Neil Gaiman's interview in the 2004 documentary The Eldritch Influence: The Life, Vision and Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft


If you know of anything I've missed, please let me know! Thanks so much.


Quotes for the day:

"He simply gave you a vision of an impossibly inhospitable universe in which we are screwed."

"The interesting thing is in Lovecraft, people don't do the wrong thing in the way that you normally do in horror fiction. In horror fiction, you do the wrong thing: you go into the shop and you buy that cat-headed object you probably shouldn't, or whatever, and everything goes bad. In Lovecraft, you simply get a room in a wrong place, move to the wrong town, read the wrong story. You're just screwed."

-Neil Gaiman on H.P. Lovecraft from The Eldritch Influence: The Life, Vision and Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft

Comments

[asphixiapixia.livejournal.com]

Isn't Neil Gaiman the author of Snow Glass Apples? I have been trying to find a hard copy of that for years but it is way to expensive.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

He surely is! That came out in Smoke and Mirrors, which is now out in paperback. It's a great - and unforgettable! - story.

[asphixiapixia.livejournal.com]

Indeed! I remember when I first read it I was mesmerized. Then I have always been a huge fan of alternative twists on fairy tales.

I had it sitting on my computer for years but it didn't have an author's name on it. I had to search to find out who wrote it. If your sure it is in Smoke and Mirrors I will order that straight away. I think I hadn't thus far because the preview of the TOC doesn't list it. I think their must be a second page to the contents. That would explain it.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes! I was so thrilled when I heard Tori Amos's song "Carbon," in which she sang, "Get me Neil on the line, No I won't hold. Have him read 'Snow, Glass, Apples' where nothing is as it seems." :)

In my copy, the Table of Contents is two full pages, and "Snow, Glass, Apples" is the very last story in the book.

[asphixiapixia.livejournal.com]

the Table of Contents is two full pages, and "Snow, Glass, Apples" is the very last story in the book.

Well that explains it then. Thanks sweet pea!

*hugs*