If you’re waiting for the Lovecraft Annual 2022 to arrive and are thus at a loss for scholarly reading, the ‘Open Lovecraft’ page here at Tentaclii is starting to full up the 2022 slot, plus a few new additions to 2021…

* G. Mariotti, “The Weird and Ineffable: H.P. Lovecraft’s Inverted Theology”, Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey, No. 9, 2022. (Italian journal, article in English. Part of a “Weird” special issue).

* J. Maki, A Study of the Translation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Usage of Religious Metaphors in “The Shadow over Innsmouth”. (Final-year undergraduate dissertation at Dalarna University, Sweden. For a degree in Japanese, and thus takes a Translation Studies / Religious Studies approach to understanding “Innsmouth” in Japanese translation.)

* G. Dyck, “Music of Contingency: A Musical Topic of Cosmic Horror in Depictions of “The Music of Erich Zann””, Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2022).

* J. L. Perez-de-Luque, “Ghostly presences in H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”, IN: Visitors from Beyond the Grave: Ghosts in World Literature, Coimbra University Press, Spain, 2021.

* S. Kahajova, Fear Maketh Man: The Influence of H.P. Lovecraft’s Fears on His Work. (Undergraduate final dissertation for Tomas Bata University. In English. 2019, online 2021).

Also, new on Archive.org this week, the book Grim phantasms: fear in Poe’s short fiction (1992).