Voegelin has a new review of the relatively new book Theology and Lovecraft (2022)…
to say that Lovecraft was a man of his times is an understatement and deflection. He was more a man out of time, living firmly in a romanticized past and fantasizing about a dangerous future. This was a religious endeavor – which is to say, a mission of devotion and worship – even for a staunch atheist like Lovecraft.
See also the 2020 open-access article Altar Call of Cthulhu: Religion and Millennialism in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Which, incidentally, is under full Creative Commons Attribution.
This article offers a close analysis of millennialism within Lovecraft’s thought” as seen in three tales.
And in the latest Aeon magazine, H.P. Lovecraft, philosopher.