Lord of the Land
Publication(s)
- First publication
- Cthulhu 200, 1990
- Wolfe collection(s)
- Other anthologies
- Best New Horror 2, 1991
- The Giant Book of Best New Horror, 1993
- Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology, 1995
- Lovecraft's Legacy, 1996
Wolfe's comments from the Introduction to Starwater Strains
"Lord of the Land" is a Lovecraft story as well as a Sam Cooper story. If you've sat in a rocker on the front porch of a farmhouse, cooling your face with a fan from a funeral parlor, you'll be kind to this story. If you have not, well, it wasn't written for you.
Summary
Folklorist Sam Cooper interviews a Tennessee farm family and encounters a Lovecraftian soul-sucking horror.
Analysis
- Sources of quotes
- Meanings of names
- References to other works
- Theories about what happens under the surface, what the narrator isn't telling us, who the narrator is and when and why s/he is telling the story, what the whole thing "means," etc.
If there are multiple or competing theories, each one should be given a name with a three-bang (!!!) header; if the page begins to get out-of-hand from the size of these, as could happen in a few cases, they should be shuffled off to their own page(s). - Etc.
Unresolved Questions
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