by Matt Cardin
“Yuki-Onna,” 527
Lacan, Jacques, 806
Lady Audley’s Secret (Braddon), 75
“Lady Geraldine’s Courtship” (Barrett), 81
Laemmle, Carl, 341, 627
Lamb, Lady Caroline
Byron, Lord, 260
Glenarvon, 261
Lanchester, Elsa, 127
Lane, Joel (1963–2013), 529
awards to, 529
The Blue Mask, 529
From Blue to Black, 529
Campbell, Ramsey, on, 270
death of, 529
The Earth Wire, 529
The Lost District, 529
reputation of, 529
Where Furnaces Burn, 529
Lane, John, 399
Lansdale, Joe R. (1951–), 529–533
awards to, 530
birthplace of, 530
Bubba Ho-Tep, 530
crime novels of, 530
Datlow, Ellen, on, 321
For a Few Stories More, 530–531
film adaptations, 530
“Guide to (Not Rules of) Writing,” 531
on horror, 532, 533
on important influences, 532–533
interview with, 531–533
on McCammon, Robert, 533
The Nightrunners (Lansdale), 765
reputation of, 529–530
Savage Season, 530
Southern Gothics of, 530
splatterpunk, 765
on writing and/or publishing horror, 532
writing style of, 530
“The Last Feast of Harlequin” (1990), 533–534
influences on, 533
Ligotti, Thomas, 533, 534
plot summary, 533
The Late Lancashire Witches (Heywood and Brome), 15
Latin literature, 6
laughter and horror, 17
Laurel Entertainment, 96
Lautréamont, 344
Lavatar, Ludwig, 15
Lawrence, D. H., 68
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” 710–711
“Lazarus” (Andreyev), 534, 534–536
acclaim for, 535
date of publication, 534
Gorky, Maxim, on, 535
as a horror classic, 535
the horror of the void in his eyes, 535
plot summary, 534–535
Scarborough, Dorothy, on, 535
subversive reiteration of the biblical message of hope, 535
tone of, 535
translation of, 534
the zombie genre and, 536
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan (1814–1873), 536–540
acclaim for, 539–540
“An Account of Some Strange Disturbances on Aungier Street,” 538
Carmilla, 64, 159, 539
children of, 538
The Cock and Anchor, 538
death of, 539
Dublin University Magazine, 538
early years of, 536–537
education of, 537
The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O’Brien, 538
full name of, 536
In a Glass Darkly, 159, 402, 464–465
“Green Tea,” 401–403, 539
the haunted house story and, 419
his beloved Susanna, 538, 539
his method and style of horror, 539
homoeroticism in, 539
horror anthologies and, 86
influence of, 539, 540
literary output of, 536
marriage of, 537
parents of, 536
reputation as the Invisible Prince, 538
“Schalken the Painter,” 732–733
Swedenborg, Emanuel, and, 402, 403, 539
Uncle Silas, 538, 539
“The Vampyre” (Polidori), 539
The Warder newspaper, 537
Lee, Edward, 765
Lee, Tanith (1947–2015), 540–542
awards to, 541
Blood Opera sequence, 541
Dark Dance, 541
Darkness, I, 542
“Death Dances,” 540, 541
death of, 542
“Elle Est Trois, (La Mort),” 541
“The Gorgon,” 541
Heart Beast, 541
“La Vampiresse,” 541
literary output of, 540
Personal Darkness, 541–542
the Scarabae, 541
significance of, 542
“The Werewolf,” 540–541
writing style of, 540
Lee, Vernon (1856–1935), 542–543
birthplace of, 542
British aesthetic movement and, 542
femme fatale stories of, 542
Hauntings, 542
“The Legend of Madame Krasinska,” 543
“Marsyas in Flanders,” 543
For Maurice: Five Unlikely Tales, 543
A Phantom Lover (“Oke of Okehurst”), 542
Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Tales, 543
“Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady,” 543
pseudonym of Violet Paget, 542
on sexual passion, 542
“The Virgin of the Seven Daggers,” 543
“A Wicked Voice,” 542
the legacy of Frankenstein: from Gothic novel to cultural myth, 125–130
Aldiss, Brian, 126
background of, 125–126
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), 127, 129
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (Ackroyd), 129
Faustian and Promethean myths, 126
first adaptation of, 126
first cinematic treatment of, 126
Frankenstein’s monster: Adam or Satan? 128
Frankenstein Unbound (Aldiss), 129
as the fundamental science fiction narrative, 127
galvanism, 129
Gothic (Russell), 129
Haunted Summer, 129
influence of, 127
Karloff, Boris, 126
Lanchester, Elsa, 127
A Monster’s Notes (Sheck), 129
mythical overtones, 127–128
outlandish examples of, 127
parody of, 127
Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein (Peake), 126
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 125, 128–129, 130
Villa Diodati ghost story competition, 128, 129
Whale’s 1931 adaptation of, 126–127
See also Shelley, Mary; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving), 543–545
film adaptations, 544–545
Ichabod Crane, 544
inspiration for, 544
philosophical debate in, 544
superstitions, 544
as a a vindication of the values of rational thinking, 544
writing style of, 544
Leiber, Fritz (1910–1992), 545–547
awards to, 545
birthplace of, 545
“Coming Attraction,” 545
Conjure Wife, 302–303, 546
“Four Ghosts in Hamlet,” 547
Gather, Darkness! 545
The Ghost Light, 547
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes,” 386–388, 547
“The Hound,” 546–547
Lovecraft, H. P., 33
Our Lady of Darkness, 547, 662–663
“The Pale Brown Thing,” 662
seminal collections of, 547
Shadows with Eyes, 117
significance of, 545
“Smoke Ghost,” 37, 546
sword-and-sorcery genre and, 545
Unknown (a.k.a. Unknown Worlds) and, 545–546
You’re All Alone, 545
Le Loyer, Pierre, 15
“Lenore” (Bürger), 78
Leroux, Gaston, 668
Lessing, Doris
The Fifth Child, 334
“Let the Old Dreams Die” (Lindqvist), 43
Let the Right One In (Lindqvist), 43
Leven, Jeremy
Satan, 334
Levin, Ir
a
awards to, 715
The Boys from Brazil, 104
Kiss Before Dying, 715
Rosemary’s Baby, 39, 104, 117, 146, 334, 359, 467, 715–717
The Stepford Wives, 104
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775–1818), 547–549, 820
“Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine,” 548
The Castle Spectre, 548
demon lover motif, 334
fame of, 547
influence of, 26, 548
influences on, 547–548
Journal of a West India Proprietor, 548
poetry of, 548
Radcliffe, Ann, and, 547
on religious and otherworldly matters, 145
“On the Supernatural in Poetry,” 23
Tales of Terror, 548
Tales of Wonder, 548
See also The Monk (Lewis)
LibriVox, 488
Lieder, Rick, 520
Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Philostratus), 543
“Ligeia” (Poe), 549–551, 550
“The Conqueror Worm” (Poe), 550
excerpt from, 549
Glanvill, Joseph, 550
influence of, 550
plot summary, 550
Poe, Edgar Allan, and, 549
prose of, 549–550
The Tomb of Ligeia film, 550
Ligotti, Thomas (1953–), 551–558
The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales, 552
antinatalism, 555
awards to, 552
Born to Fear (a collection of interviews), 553
Cartesian dualism, 557
characteristic elements of his stories, 556
Cioran, Emile, 553
collaboration with band Current 93, 552–553
collections of, 552
connection to Lovecraft, 554–555
“The Consolations of Horror,” xxxii
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, 555
Crampton, a screenplay, 552
creating effects, 554
dark philosophical worldview, 552, 553
disillusionment, 552
dolls and puppets, 553–554, 556
dream city, 554
dreamers as characters, 554
“The Dreaming in Nortown,” 534
“Dream of a Mannikin,” 553–554
dreams and nightmares, 557
first stories of, 552
“The Frolic” (film), 553
Grimscribe collection, 534
on human existence, 534
influence of, 45, 555
influences on, 167, 344, 553, 555
interview with, 556–558
“The Last Feast of Harlequin,” 533–534, 798
on Lovecraft, H. P., 558
“Metaphysica Morum,” 554
My Work Is Not Yet Done, 552, 554
“Nethescurial,” 554
The Nightmare Factory, 552
nihilism, 551, 555
notable aspects of his work, 552, 553
“Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story,” 555
on the novel, 557–558
point of view of, 553
“The Prodigy of Dreams,” 554
“Professor Nobody’s Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror,” 555
“The Red Tower,” 552, 555
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 553
significance of, 553
Songs of a Dead Dreamer, 552
“The Spectacles in the Drawer,” 534
True Detective and accusation of plagiarism, 553
on the value of horror literature, 558
Lindqvist, John Ajvide (1968–), 181–182
allegorical quality of his writings, 182
birthplace of, 181
Hanteringen av odöda / Handling the Undead, 182, 872
Harbour, 182
I Am behind You, 182
Let the Old Dreams Die, 182
Let the Right One In, 181, 182
Lilla stjärna / Little Star, 182
Människohamn / Harbour, 182
reputation off, 181
soubriquet of, 181
Link, Kelly (1969–), 558–560
awards to, 559
characteristics of work, 559
critics on, 559
as an editor, 559
Fabulations, 558
Get in Trouble, 559
husband of, 559
short story collections of, 559
standout titles of individual stories, 559
L’Innomable (Beckett), 270
Lipinski, Miroslaw, 313
“The Listeners” (de la Mare), 560–562
copy of, 561
date written, 560
fear of resolute silence, 560
horror underlining, 560
menace of unexplained occurrences, 560
the phantom listeners, 560
publishing of, 560
questions raised in, 560
storyline of, 560
Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media (Daniels), 35
“Locksley Hall” (Tennyson), 81
Long, Frank Belknap (1901–1994), 562–564
collections of his weird tales and science fiction, 564
contributions to Unknown, 563
contributions to Weird Tales, 562
Cthulhu Mythos, 307, 562
“The Dog-Eared God,” 562
The Early Long, 564
as an editor, 564
“Fisherman’s Luck,” 563
The Horror from the Hills, 562
“The Hounds of Tindalos,” 562, 563
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside, 564
“Johnny on the Spot,” 563
Lovecraft, H. P., 562, 564
“The Man with a Thousand Legs,” 562
modern Gothic romance novels of, 564
poetry of, 564
pseudonym of, 564
“Second Night Out” (aka “The Dead Black Thing”), 562
“The Space Eaters,” 562
“Step into My Garden,” 563
themes of early stories, 562
Longinus
Peri Hypsous, 20
“Lot No. 249” (Doyle), 564–565
film adaptations, 565
first appearance of, 564
importance of, 565
plot of, 564
plot structure of, 565
Lovecraft, H. P. (1890–1937), 566–571, 845
on Ainsworth, William Harrison, 180
alien races, notion of, 567–568
alternative definition of weird fiction, 164
anthrophobia and, 570
Arkham House, 189–190
birthplace of, 567
body snatching, 232
“The Call of Cthulhu,” opening paragraph of, 263
“The Call of Cthulhu,” use of the club story, 374
Campbell, Ramsey, on, 271
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, 278–280
childhood of, 567
Collected Poems, 191
“The Colour out of Space,” 165, 298–300, 569
“Cool Air,” 107
on cosmic horro, 164, 165
cosmic imagery of, 569
cosmology of, 567
Crypt of Cthulhu fanzines, 118
Cthulhu Mythos, 123, 193, 225, 264, 280, 306–308, 568
current status of, 570–571
“Dagon,” 570
death of, 567
on “The Death of Halpin Frayser” (Bierce), 327–328
description of Wilbur Whately’s corpse, 351
the “Dreamlands” stories, 568
“The Dreams in the Witch House,” 570
Dunsanian fantasy and, 568
Dunsany, Lord, 30
“The Dunwich Horror,” 350–352
The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales, 89
eco-horror, 60
on Edgar Allan Poe, 164
“Facts Concerning the
Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family,” 570
foreshadowing technique of, 569
ghostwriting, 33
the grotesque, use of, 405
hasard, 569
“The Haunter of the Dark,” 225
on Hawthorne, 424
“He,” 570
Hodgson, William Hope, 439
“The Horror at Red Hook,” 570
horror video games, 123
on The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne), 450–451
immigration and, 570
on the importance of atmosphere, 569
influence of, 31, 33, 34, 566–567, 570
on James, M. R., 487
Joshi, S. T., and, 570
The King in Yellow (Chambers), 509
Ligotti, Thomas, on, 558
literary realism, 569
Lovecraftian games, 567
Lovecraftian music, 567
Lovecraftian television, 567
Lovecraft Mythos, 271
Lovecraft’s Legacy, 121
“The Lurking Fear,” 570
Marginalia (Lovecraft), 190
marriage of, 567
At the Mountains of Madness, 165, 192–194, 298
movies directly based on Lovecraft’s stories, 566
movies featuring a distinct Lovecraftian influence or direct Lovecraftian references, 566
“The Music of Erich Zann,” 628–630
Necronomicon Press, 155
the numinous, 645
“Nyarlathotep,” 570
overview of, 31–32
“Pickman’s Model,” 673–675
Poe, Edgar Allan, 164, 569
as a poet, 569
Providence, Rhode Island and, 567
on Quinn, Seabury, 689
racism of, 570
“The Rats in the Walls,” 570, 698–700
science fiction, 33
as a science fiction writer, 103
Selected Letters (Lovecraft), 190
“The Shadow out of Time,” 193
“The Shadow over Innsmouth,” 31–32, 229–230, 570
“The Shunned House,” 570
significance of, 566
small press and, 153
on Smith, Clark Ashton, 756
on the sublime, 783
Supernatural Horror in Literature, 23, 75, 163, 164, 363, 424, 569, 783
“symbolic phantasy,” impetus for, 568
use of New England local color, 570
Wandrei, Donald, 33
the weird and, 44
weird and cosmic horror fiction and, 163, 164
Weird Tales, 165
“The Whisperer in Darkness,” 569–570
Wright, Farnsworth, 31
on Yog-Sothoth, 568
Lovecraftian horror, 571–573
the Cthulhu Mythos, 572
definition of, 571
futility theme, 572
“outsideness,” 571–572
unique innovation of, 572
Lowenstein, Adam, 98
Lucretius
De rerum natura, 107
Lucy Westenra, 64
Lugosi, Bela, 136, 341, 617
Lumley, Brian (1937–), 573–575
awards to, 573, 574
The Caller of the Black, 573
“The Cyprus Shell,” 573
date and place of birth, 573
Derleth, August, and, 573
