The Secret Life of Puppets

Victoria Nelson

  • 10th Annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America

Preface

Grotto, An Opening

Early Adventures of the Earthly Gods

The Puppet Tractates

The Strange History of the American Fantastic

H. P. Lovecraft and the Great Heresies

Symmes Hole, or the South Polar Grotto

Is This Real or Am I Crazy?

Two Old Birds and Their New Feathers

The New Expressionists

The Hermeticon of Umbertus E.

The Great Twentieth-Century Puppet Upgrade

The Door in the Sky

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Secret Life of Puppets
  • A photo of the author

Puppet images: Otto Morach (1918), Marionetten zu 'La boîte à joujou.'

Victoria Nelson is an independent scholar living in California. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, at the University of Hawaii, and was the Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota. The author of a travel memoir about Hawaii, an exploration of creativity, and a co-translator of Bruno Schulz's letters, she has also published many pieces of short fiction and essays.