Lord of the Land

Publication(s)

• First publication
  • Lovecraft's Legacy, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Robert E. Weinberg, Tor, 1990
• Wolfe collection(s)
  • Starwater Strains (2005)
  • The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories (2023)
• Other anthologies
  • Best New Horror 2, 1991
  • The Giant Book of Best New Horror, 1993
  • Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology, ed. Jim Turner, 1995
  • Lovecraft's Legacy, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Robert E. Weinberg. St. Martin's Press, 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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