Miskatonic Arcihves

Humor and satire

Lovecraft’s comic writing includes mock autobiography, melodramatic parody, fictitious scholarship and jokes shared with fellow writers. These pieces reveal an author able to play with narrative authority and his own literary persona. Their humor ranges from affectionate self-caricature to aggression and prejudice; it should be examined at the level of the individual joke.

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