Colin Wilson, The Return of the Lloigor

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1974

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novella

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Colin Wilson’s absorbing novella

The Return of the Lloigor

(1974), running to 60 pages, is an expansion and revision of a short story of the same title that originally appeared in

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

(1969), edited by the writer August Derleth (1909-71) and published by Arkham House, the press founded in 1939 by Derleth and his fellow-writer Donald Wandrei (1908-87) to preserve the fiction of the American horror and fantasy writer H(oward) P(hilips) Lovecraft (1890-1937). As Bernice Murphy points out in her

Literary Encyclopedia

entry on Lovecraft, the term “Cthulhu Mythos” was only coined after Lovecraft’s death, but the story that did most to create it was Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926), “which detailed the characteristics of his famous cult, dedicated…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Return of the Lloigor". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 June 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23950, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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