This book offers a fresh perspective on the twentieth-century American weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft and introduces the notion that the gentleman of Providence was a Romantic at heart. Lovecraft's relationship with wonder, gardens, joy, the dramatic, the strange and the beautiful are all explored.

Philosopher Jan B. W. Pedersen is the author of Balanced Wonder: Experiential Sources of Imagination, Virtue, and Human Flourishing (2019). He teaches at University College Diakonissestiftelsen, Frederiksberg, Denmark and at Folkeuniversitetet, Aalborg, Denmark.