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Authors: Carrie Cuinn,Gabrielle Harbowy,Don Pizarro,Cody Goodfellow,Madison Woods,Richard Baron,Juan Miguel Marin,Ahimsa Kerp,Maria Mitchell,Mae Empson,Nathan Crowder,Silvia Moreno-Garcia,KV Taylor,Andrew Scearce,Constella Espj,Leon J. West,Travis King,Steven J. Searce,Clint Collins,Matthew Marovich,Gary Mark Bernstein,Kirsten Brown,Kenneth Hite,Jennifer Brozek,Justin Everett

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In
Cthulhurotica
, this apprehension is not as much a terror of the universe’s vastness and the insignificance of man as it is the dread of social change. Literary erotica has long confronted such fears through the plot motif of initiation and transformation, illustrated above in the discussion of Empson’s story. (This theme is also present in many of the stories discussed above, in addition to “The Summoned” and “Song of the Catherine Clark,” which I sadly could not fit in to this essay’s discussion). What these stories confront instead are the social rules and the enclosures that govern our lives and prevent us from engaging in behaviors that are at once enticing and self-destructive. As the roles and relationships of men and women have changed since Lovecraft’s time, what these stories permit us to do is question the limitations placed upon us by marriage, gender-identity, gender-dominance, and even pair bonding itself. This does not mean we should surrender those rules of conduct, but we should enter a discussion about them and confront our own long-buried fears associated with issues of sex and power.

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Lovecraft, H. P. “Supernatural Horror in Literature.” Art and Popular Culture. 28 Oct. 2010.

Mendlesohn, Farah.
Rhetorics of Fantasy
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VanderMeer, Jeff. “Introduction.”
The New Weird
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