New in Italian, Daniele Corradi’s Il linguaggio di Cthulhu: Filosofia e Dizionario di H.P.Lovecraft (Jouvence series No.31, September 2019).

The title doesn’t quite make sense in English translation. Something like “On the Language of Cthulhu: A Philosophical Dictionary for H.P. Lovecraft” would be elegant but imprecise. From the Italian, some of the blurb…

A lengthy critical essay on the language, narrative techniques and philosophies of the greatest horror author of all time … suggests a philosophy of horror that re-establishes reality and psychology … In closing, [we have] the Lovecraftian Dictionary: a lively philological survey of recurring terms in Lovecraft’s work.