Lovecraft : A Study in the Fantastic

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Levy’s book is filled with explorations of neat themes in Lovecraft such as attics (vs. cellars),
dreamworlds, stairways dug from underground up… The book’s charm as well as weakness is that it
points out Lovecraft’s relation to other thinkers (Poe, Hawthorne, Freud, Einstein, Le Fanu) but
doesn’t get bogged down working those relations out.