Literary prejudices

[kestrell]

So there is this new Lovecraft book just out with the catchy title of _H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction_, which I have been anticipating for some time.

However, in looking at the Amazon page for the book, there is no book description, but there is a bit about the author, who lives in Florida.

I realize this is really really petty of me, but I find myself doubtful regarding the abilities of an author to really get the mood of Lovecraft right when that author lives in a state that completely lacks gothic ambiance. I'm trying to imagine a Floridian Stephen King, and it just isn't happening.

And then I noticed that there is no publisher listed for the book.

How does that happen? I know I've come to regard self-publishing with some skepticism, but listing no publisher at all does not convey a sense of confidence, either. And why not just make up something if you don't have an actual publisher? I kind of like the ring of Infernal Publishing, Inc.

Comments

[kestrell]

Oo, thanks! And thank you for giving me another method for finding bibliographic information! McFarland is often very solid on academic writing about genre fiction, but there is the occasional miss--I bought a McFarland book which had the title _Jack the Ripper and Black Magic_ and, aside from a wildly wandering prose style, it also wandered wildly from the subject in the title, and the first fifty or so pages were about spiritualism in Britain.