The results of a quick scamper around the more obscure back-tunnels, in search of recent scholarly work…

* “Thoughtcraft: A Matter of Life and Death in Poe and Lovecraft”. A new open-access article in a Turkish philosophy journal, in Turkish.

* No full-text, but a long abstract for “Cosmic Shadows in The Homelessness of Humanity: an idea-historical investigation of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror based on Heidegger’s Angst” (2023).

[seeing] through the lens of Heidegger’s concept of Unheimlich and Angst, this paper illuminates new dimensions and latent meanings within Lovecraft’s literary works and mythos. This paper argues that Lovecraft’s tales and mythology are imbued with existential philosophy, mirroring the parallel development of Heidegger’s ideas during the same period.

* Freely online, “Maps to Arkham: Lovecraft, Landscape and Visual Poetry”. Being extensive commentary on the author’s coursework visual word-experiments… “which respond to Lovecraft’s attitudes towards language, walking and the landscape”.

* The recent journal Dark Dead Things #2 (2023) is nearly all “very disturbing” fiction, but also has the essay “Correlating the Contents: Mimetic Desire in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu””.