Now Available - Lovecraftian Proceedings 6

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Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 6

$20.00

Edited by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

ISBN 9781614985013

320 pp

Cover art by Pete Von Sholly

This sixth volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings, including selected papers from the Armitage Symposium of NecronomiCon Providence 2024, presents numerous advances in Lovecraft scholarship. From a biographical perspective, Daniel J. Holmes examines Lovecraft’s early poem “Providence in 2000 A.D.” (1912); Dale Allen Crowley studies Lovecraft’s trip to Cleveland in 1922 and its influence on his writing; and Taylor Walker presents an historical account of Butler Hospital, where both of Lovecraft’s parents died.

Heather Miller analyzes the influence of Melville’s Moby-Dick upon Lovecraft; Carlos González investigates Lovecraft’s influence on the Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez; James R. M. Young conducts a philosophical study of evil in Lovecraft’s work; Gus Kraus ponders the influence of Indian religious texts on Lovecraft; and Perry Neil Harrison studies the Necronomicon in the context of phonotactics. More theoretical papers broach the concept of a “weird poetics” and the possibility of a horrific Platonism.

Other essays treat such subjects as Farnsworth Wright’s inclusion of translated horror stories in Weird Tales; Robert W. Chambers’s disturbing dystopian tale, “The Repairer of Reputations,” from The King in Yellow; the role of intertextuality in the in the TV show Twin Peaks; and the film The Wicker Man as a twisted utopia.

All in all, this book contains a bountiful and diverse group of papers expanding our knowledge of Lovecraft and weird fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface / Niels-Viggo S. Hobbs, Ph.D.

Introduction / Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Shaping of the Lovecraftian Gaze / Heather Miller

“Always-Already Unrepresentable”: Toward a Weird Poetics / Timothy J. Jarvis

Translating the Necronomicon: Lineages of Dark Epistemology / Carlos A. González

Cosmic Terror “Crystallised”: A Lovecraftian Episode in an Indian Epic? / Gus Kraus

Translating Weirdness: Farnsworth Wright, World Literature, and the Creation of Weird Fiction / Eric Williams

Rhode Island in 1912 A.D.: Immigration, Catholicism, and the Nativist Grotesque / Daniel J. Holmes

Eldritch Institutions: Lovecraft and Butler Hospital / Taylor Walker

Intertextuality and the Violability of Self in Twin Peaks / Katherine Kerestman

Aspects of Evil in the Main Stories of H. P. Lovecraft / James R. M. Young

I Am the Sovereign: Narrative, Spectacle and Cruel Optimism in Robert W. Chambers’s “The Repairer of Reputations” / Nathaniel R. Wallace

The Phonotactics of Fear: H. P. Lovecraft and “Unknowable” Languages / Perry Neil Harrison

Horrific Platonism / Eric Steinhart

The Shadow over Lake Erie: A Trip to Cleveland and Its Influence on H. P. Lovecraft’s Innsmouth / Dale Allen Crowley

Monster-Making in an Era of Entertainment / Kejia Wu

Cops for Crops: Utopia and the Weird in The Wicker Man / Sean Lovitt

Time as a Narrative Tool in “The Silver Key”: A Figural Interpretation of Randolph Carter / Zac Rutledge

Appendix: Abstracts from The Sixth Biennial Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research, Providence, R.I., 15–18 August 2024

Contributors

Index

Out Now - Lovecraft Annual 20

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Lovecraft Annual No. 20 [2026]

$15.00

New Scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft Edited by S. T. Joshi

ISSN 1935-6102

ISBN 9781614985006

August 2026

257 pp

 

The twentieth issue of this flagship journal of Lovecraft scholarship contains an abundance of material that substantially advances our understanding of Lovecraft. Donovan Loucks studies Lovecraft’s use of the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem in his fiction, while Adam Bolivar reports on a trip to Devonshire where Lovecraft’s paternal ancestors lived. Duncan Norris probes Lovecraft’s role in the development of UFO mythology; Zachary Killebrew investigates the role of asexualism in Lovecraft’s tales; James Goho and Ron L. Johnson II study elements of “The Colour out of Space” and “The Dunwich Horror,” respectively.

Dylan Henderson ponders the autobiographical significance of “He,” while John P. Irish compares “The Music of Erich Zann” with Fitz-James O’Brien’s “The Lost Room.” Horace A. Smith adds to our understanding of Lovecraft’s scientific interests, and Kyle Gamache studies the use of asylums in Lovecraft’s fiction.

The issue concludes with a comprehensive index to issues 11–20.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Life “Among Scenes”:  Tracing an Asexual Lovecraftian Erotic / Zachary Killebrew

Entropy, Aging, and Death in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space” / James Goho

Lovecraft and the Six Thermometers: More about Lovecraft’s First  Newspaper Appearance / Horace A. Smith

“The Unnamable” and  Salem’s Charter Street Cemetery / Donovan Loucks

“The Shadow over Innsmouth” and  Devolution in Early Twentieth-Century “Scientifiction” / Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer

“The Emptiness and Horror of Reality”: An Autobiographical Approach  to Lovecraft’s “He” / Dylan Henderson

Whispering in Darkness: Lovecraft and the Rise of UFO Mythology. / Duncan Norris

Invokes the Deadly Parallel / H. P. Lovecraft

Discoveries in Darkest Devon / Adam Bolivar

Putting a Face to the Great Race of Yith: Theodotides, Diodotus I, and “The Shadow out of Time” / Oliver D. Hoover

“The Colour out of Space”:  Influences and Impact / Ron L. Johnson II

Before Cthulhu: The Gradual Formation of Cosmicism in Lovecraft’s “Nathicana” and “A Garden” / Alysa Taylor

Vanishing Rooms, Vanishing Streets: Kantian Gothic Genealogies  from O’Brien to Lovecraft / John P. Irish

“Died Screaming in a Madhouse”: A Look at Asylums in Lovecraftian Fiction / Kyle Gamache

How to Read Lovecraft / A Column by Steven J. Mariconda

Reviews

Contributors

Index to The Lovecraft Annual 11–20

Briefly Noted

New Comics - The Thing on the Doorstep

Image Comics has recently begun an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Thing on the Doorstep." The series concludes this summer and will be released in a collected edition in the fall. Amazon now offers pre-ordering of the complete series: https://www.amazon.com/Thing-Doorstep-Simon-Birks/dp/1534335269/. 

The Thing on the Doorstep

by Simon Birks (Author), Willi Roberts (Illustrator), Rob Jones (Illustrator)  

Format: Paperback

"It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer."

The year is 1933, and Edward Derby's best friend, Daniel Upton, visits him in Arkham Sanitorium and shoots him dead to the horror of the guards. It's an open and shut case - or is it? What happened to this lifelong friendship for it to end this way? Who exactly was Edward Derby at the end of his life? And, most importantly, will his murder be enough to stop him?

From award-winning writer Simon Birks (Antarctica, Sinners, Gone, The Shadow Over Innsmouth) with artist Willi Roberts (Antarctica, The Dark, Clodagh, The Blood Below, Remothered) featuring letters by Rob Jones (Image, Humanoids, Heavy Metal, and many more) comes a startling tale based on H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying story.

Collects issues #1-5.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Image Comics

Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1534335269

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1534335264

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.7 x 10.25 inches

About the Author

Simon Birks is an award-winning writer of comics, novels and films based in Linlithgow, Scotland. In 2015, he co-founded Blue Fox Comics with Marielle Bouleau and together they have successfully funded over 50 comic book Kickstarter campaigns. Also, Michael Palin once called a film he co-wrote 'very silly', and that's good enough for him.

Willi Roberts is a comic book artist based in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, who started working in comics as a penciler, inker, colourist and graphic designer in 2010, drawing for publishers in the USA, Australia, Italy and the UK. His titles include The Dark, Clodagh, The Blood Below and indie-game tie-in comic Remothered.

Recent Comics - The Last Day of H. P. Lovecraft

BOOM! Studios recently completed the run of The Last Day of H. P. Lovecraft. A collected edition is due out this summer and is now available for pre-ordering at https://www.amazon.com/Last-Day-H-P-Lovecraft/dp/B0G2X12L56/. 

The Last Day of H.P. Lovecraft

by Romuald Giulivo (Author), Jakub Rebelka (Illustrator), Mercedes Gilliom (Translator)  

Format: Paperback

A gothic meditation on legacy and mortality from the world of Lovecraftian horror.

Translated for the first time from the acclaimed French graphic novel, this imaginative blend of fiction and reality reimagines the final hours of the literary icon through a haunting, dreamlike lens.

As Lovecraft confronts the legacy of his life’s triumphs and regrets, his world becomes an otherworldly cathedral of memory and reckoning—filled with cosmic echoes of the mythos he helped shape.

Written by Romuald Giulivo (Le Sourire De Sang) and with breathtaking art by Jakub Rebelka (Origins, Judas), this collection presents the thrilling five-issue limited series in one complete volume.

Collects The Last Day of H.P. Lovecraft #1-5.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0G2X12L56

Publisher ‏ : ‎ BOOM! Studios

Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 18, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892158725

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.66 x 0.31 x 10.2 inches

About the Authors

ROMUALD GIULIVO was born in 1973 in Provins, a famous French medieval city. After scientific preparatory classes and a Grande École diploma, he became a naval architect, i.e. a manufacturer of shoeboxes that carry oil… As he dreamed of something else, he quickly set sail and escaped the Kafkaesque atmosphere of the business world by writing a series of fantasy novels around the time of the first Harry Potter books.For the past 20 years, he has divided his time between writing and playing experimental music. He publishes novels inspired by current events with L’École des Loisirs and Editions Anne Carrière, and regularly takes to the stage to set some of his texts to voice, music, and drawings with other artists.

Alongside his writing activities, he has founded a cultural operator dedicated to the creation of read-alouds based on the works of a collective of authors and artists.

JAKUB REBELKA is a freelance illustrator, comics creator and concept artist working in both digital and traditional mediums. He has created illustrations for animated cutscenes for games such as The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and Shadow Warrior. Jakub is currently working with writer Yohan Radomski on a fantasy graphic novel titled City of Dogs.