Now Available - Lovecraftian Proceedings 6

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Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 6

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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

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