Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (April 2020). This substantial new single-author book applies textual computing to the science-fiction-philosophy novel Cloud Atlas, and is also free and under full Creative Commons.

This book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu and Tanya E. Clement, Close Reading with Computers instead asks what happens when such techniques function as a microscope.

As such it is possibly of interest as an exemplar for a set of computational techniques and approaches that could be used on a Lovecraft work. With the dense and historical (and public domain) Dexter Ward springing to mind.