Ripples from Carcosa: H. P. Lovecraft, Haunted Landscapes, and True Detective
Hippocampus Press:
New York: 2024
Trade paperback, New,
140 pp.
Cover artwork by: Dan Sauer
“The first season of the show True Detective (HBO, 2014) is one of the most compelling amalgamations of horror, detection, philosophy, and personal conflict ever presented on television. The show’s creator, Nic Pizzolatto, has drawn upon a wide array of sources for the eight episodes of this season, which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as two police detectives investigating mysterious deaths in an impoverished region in Louisiana. In this pioneering study, veteran weird fiction scholar Heather Miller has unraveled the complex network of influences that made True Detective so memorable. First and foremost, there is H. P. Lovecraft, whose rich pseudomythology underlay the entire series. Then there is Robert W. Chambers, whose King in Yellow mythology was utilized in a profound manner by Pizzolatto. Finally, there is the fiction and philosophy of Thomas Ligotti, the modern-day apostle of pessimism and anti-natalism” #73799
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