The Innsmouth “Thing”: Monstrous Androgyny in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep”
The Innsmouth “Thing”: Monstrous Androgyny in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep”

Summary/Abstract: Criticism on Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the inventor of the modern American horror tale, has “now reached titanic proportions,” as S. T. Joshi points out (1982:288). Yet some issues raised by Lovecraftian fiction are quite off the beaten track of most critics. Gender is one neglected area, although in some Lovecraft stories the reader is confronted with heavily gendered characters in shocking and often repellent relationships, the examination of which is very likely to unearth further knowledge pertaining to Lovecraft’s work, his “cosmic” philosophy, and his rendition of epistemology.

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