Justin Woodman reports from the recent London conference titled “The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genres”, which…

“ultimately proved my expectations about this being a typical academic conference to be largely wrong … my suppositions that it would be a lit crit dominated event were also misplaced”

No Luckman vs. Joshi fisticuffs, it seems.

* Daniel M. Look (2013), “The Cosmic Angle of Regarding: mathematics and the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft” (“To appear in Journeys into Fear Vol. 1, Crossroad Press/SpiderBaby. Planned release March 2014″).

* Paul Boshears (2013), “Against Paraphrase: Graham Harman’s Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy“, Interstitial, March 2013. (Scholarly review of Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy).

* Ondrej Harnusek (2013), “Lovecraft and Poe: masters of the macabre of Providence” (Undergraduate final dissertation, Masaryk University Department of English and American Studies. In English).

Brooklyn Brainery, a new sort of quirky adult education college in New York City, had a recent short course on the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft.

Former People has an interview with Robert Price.

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

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