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

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Coming Soon - Bellantoni's Vampires and Gallstones

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Vampires and Gallstones: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Science of Connecticut’s Historic Burial Grounds

 (Studies in Funerary Archaeology)

by Nick Bellantoni (Author)  

Format: Hardcover

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DW1JQPFP

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxbow Books

Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2026

Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8888572009

Nine cemetery case studies reveal how archaeological investigation uncovers unusual human remains, infections, and preserved artifacts beneath Connecticut’s historic burial grounds.

This book, as a companion to "And So the Tomb Remained" proposes to tell the stories of nine cemetery case studies where the Connecticut State Archaeologist was summoned to investigate human burials impacted by economic development projects, natural disasters, suspected crime scenes and family request. In each instance, archaeological excavations uncovered a few surprises, including the burial of a suspected vampire; gallstones that survived over 165 years in the ground; a burial’s missing arm; a mysterious man dressed in a blue suit enclosed in a cast-iron coffin; skeletons under a hospital emergency room expansion; 18th-century burials discovered under the grass of a baseball field; and unmarked burials and an unknown time capsule hidden under a city green for over 100 years containing memorabilia from the American Civil War along with copies of New Haven newspapers published on 12 February 1909.

The book begins with an overview of the history of New England burying grounds from the earliest Puritans into the 21st century, including changing social and religious attitudes toward death, monuments and treatments of the dead; a review of the disinterment of the dead by 18th- and 19th-century medical students searching for cadavers and skeletal remains for their anatomical studies and the outrage of local citizens at envisioning their loved ones' graves uprooted; a discussion of current archaeological methods and preservation ethics, including the role of the Connecticut State Archaeologist in burial investigations and Indigenous repatriations.

Each chapter then delves into discovery stories, archaeological fieldwork, genealogical history and bioanthropological analyses of associated human skeletal remains. Along with scientific data, personal anecdotes will be told of our experiences and research into each case. The goal is a scientific approach with a personal, storytelling style while unearthing the most unusual discoveries hidden beneath Connecticut’s historical cemeteries.

Case studies include the recovery of 30 family burials, discovered falling out of a quarry edge, which included the disarticulated remains of ‘J.B.’, whose head had been deliberately decapitated and his thigh bones crossed over the chest, which had also been violated. In times of epidemic and infectious diseases, to save the lives of living family members, the antidote required going back into graves and conducting 'an experiment' to determine if the deceased endured as a mischievous vampire within their coffin. If considered still alive, burning of the heart and rearrangement of the bones, including decapitation, were the prescribed solutions in putting the undead to rest. ‘J.B.’ suffered from the infectious ‘wasting disease’ known as consumption (tuberculosis).

Following vandalism of an abandoned cemetery, the state archaeologist was petitioned by the Horton family to disinter three individuals whose burials dated to the early 19th century. Among them were the skeletal remains of Ruth Horton, who died in 1837, with a pocket of white, shellfish-like flecks in the lower abdomen of the body. Chemical analysis identified these as the oldest buried case of gallstones ever reported in the United States.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Unearthing the undead

2. The Yale New Haven Four

3. Ruth Horton’s gallstones

4. A solitary tombstone

5. Under the New Haven Green

6. Angels in the outfield

7. The search for Peter Pond

8. The mysterious man in the cast-iron coffin

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

About the Author

Nick Bellantoni, PhD, serves as the emeritus state archaeologist with the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Associate Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. He is a former President of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut and the National Association of State Archaeologists.