Former People interviews S.T. Joshi.

* Ellen Greenham (2013), Neocosmicism: God and the Void. (Ph.D for Murdoch University, Australia. It “…seeks to demonstrate the validity of cosmicism as a lens through which to critically interrogate science fiction texts; it more importantly endeavors to address cosmicism’s inherent limitations as a philosophy of the human creature’s place in the universe.”)

* S.T. Joshi (2013), Cthulhu’s Empire: H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence on His Contemporaries and Successors (Appears to be a free sample, from the Salem Press book Critical Insights: Pulp Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s).

* Duran Flores Merlin Lisseth, and Pineda Zaldana Maritza Beatriz (2013), El terror u horror como eje estructurante en los cuentos “El extrano”, “El sabueso” y “El ser bajo la luz de la luna” de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. (Undergraduate dissertation, University of El Salvador. In Spanish).

Lovecraft at Norrkoping Public Library…

“One of my responsibilities at Norrkoping Public Library is arranging academic lectures, inviting Swedish scholars and authors engaged in current cultural and scientific debate. This activity has by now developed into a form of literary salon, opening with a my dialogue with the author followed by a lecture and often a very vivid and stimulating discussion. On October 2, I invited Mattias Fyhr, Assistant Professor in Literary Criticism at Stockholm University and lecturer in Literary Criticism at Jonkoping University […] Mattias is the author of Dod men drommande: H.P. Lovecraft och den magiska modernismen (Dead But Dreaming: H.P. Lovecraft and Magic Modernism).”

Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature and the Environment is a forthcoming symposium to be hosted by Falmouth University in Cornwall, with the UK’s Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Date is 8th March 2014.

“From places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory or history to conceptions of landscape as palimpsest, holy wells and ancient sites, literature, art and film have always explored concepts of the supernatural and the landscape and environment. … Encounters with the landscape reverberate through the ages and through the rocks, trees, hills and streams that are still present today.”

Photos: Radcliffe

Soggoth reproduction? You don’t want to know. You do? Oh, ok then…

New additions to the Open Lovecraft page…

* Negin Ghodrati (2013), “The Creation, Evolution and Aftermath of Lovecraftian Horror” (Masters dissertation, University of Oslo).

* Gabriela Birnfeld Kurtz (2013), “Cibercultura e H.P. Lovecraft: historias de horror no tempo da inteligencia coletiva”, Revista Tematica, Sept 2013. (In Portuguese. Lovecraft’s ideas and networks related to the concepts of cyberculture, collective intelligence and culture fandoms, with special reference to contemporary Facebook activity).

Northern Illinois University has a Lovecraft collection, including letters? Yup…

“The collection consists of Lovecraft’s fiction writing, letters, poems, scientific articles, pulp magazine stories, books about Lovecraft, collections of Lovecraft stories, titles of books known to have lived in Lovecraft’s personal library, and a few miscellaneous items, including several manuscript letters.”

No online finding aid to exactly what the collection holds, it seems. Fandom Directory, 2000, confirms there are only “a few letters”.

Visions of Enchantment is a two-day academic conference at the University of Cambridge, 17th-18th March 2014.

“…seeks to investigate the formative role that occultism and magic have played in Western and non-Western visual and material culture … the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge and the Arts University Bournemouth and is organised in association with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism”

Possibly relevant to Lovecraftians who are interested in the visual imagination of the 18th century, and how it might have influenced Lovecraft.

Part two of Fred Lubnow’s essay The Biology of the Old Ones. This section looks at Robert M. Price’s discussion of the general taxonomy, which Price figured out from Lovecraft’s slitherous pantheon.