A new one from S.T. Joshi that I hadn’t been expecting, not having seen it mentioned on his blog. Newly listed at Hippocampus, Phantasmagoria: The Weird Fiction, Poetry, and Criticism of Sir Walter Scott. As I noted here recently, Scott was an influence on Lovecraft at a formative time (and probably also on Tolkien as well, in his interweaving of high and low culture). A fine cover, and just $20 rather than an expensive limited-edition hardback.

The scholarly journal Wormwood #37 has its cover and table-of-contents. Has at least three articles of interest to me…

* John Howard on the many dimensions of Fritz Leiber. (Presumably surveying his work beyond the usual Mouser tales)

* Adrian Eckerseley with a new view of Machen’s The Hill of Dreams.

* Mark Valentine on the figure of [King] Arthur in the 1970s.

Appears to have been delayed from the Autumn, presumably by the paper shortages and shipping problems.

Axis Mundi brings news of a new festschrift in Italian, a book of essays celebrating 60 years of work by the scholar Gianfranco de Turris. He has written extensively on the fantastic, and has so far won the Italian Prize for Science Fiction eleven times. Among other essays in the new volume, note the long one on de Turris and Lovecraft, and another one surveying the reception of Arthur Machen in Italy.

Possibly of interest to someone wishing to translate to English, for their own journal. He has also been an anthologist of a major two-volume collection of Italian Mythos fiction, Return of the Old Ones.

Ask Lovecraft brings news of a new look at the question of Lovecraft’s copyrights. Alex Houstoun, editor of the journal Dead Reckonings, has newly published Copyright Questions and the Stories of H. P. Lovecraft.

Shipping now, in a handmade zine-y-thing format. Though according to Etsy only in paper and only within the USA.

The Robert H. Waugh Library of Lovecraftian Criticism, newly announced in three volumes at Hippocampus.

I’m fairly sure the first two have already been published, though not in this handsome three-volume shelf-trembler set. The third book appears to be new for 2021…

This third volume of his essays continues the pattern of his earlier books, The Monster in the Mirror and A Monster of Voices. Here we have studies of Lovecraft’s use of the imagery of wells in “The Colour out of Space”; the cosmic history of alien species in At the Mountains of Madness and “The Shadow out of Time”; the role that the fictional Miskatonic University plays in Lovecraft’s fiction; and the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on several Lovecraft tales. Other essays discuss Lovecraft’s influence on such science fiction writers as Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber, and Philip K. Dick, as well as such understudied tales as “Cool Air” and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. And Waugh’s long rumination about Lovecraft’s response to the Nobel Prize winners of his day displays to the full the author’s wide-ranging expertise on world literature.