Three new items added to the Open Lovecraft page…

* Brendan Robert West (2012), Whisperer: A Study in Adaptation. (M.A. dissertation at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Examines the methodologies of adaption for H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness”)

* Joakim Dahlback (2012), Cthulhu vaknar pa vita duken: en jamforande analys av H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu och Andrew Lemans filmatisering av den. (Undergraduate dissertation in Swedish. Title in English: “Cthulhu awakes on the silver screen: a comparative analysis of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Andrew Leman’s film version of it.”)

* J. Michael Bestul (2006), Cthulhu Lives!: A Descriptive Study of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. (M.A. dissertation for Bowling Green State University).

Added to the Open Lovecraft page…

* G. Warlock Vance (2010), “Dread and portent : reading H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon as social commentary”, PhD thesis, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010.

* Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju (2012), “”Aquatic Ancestry” by Kingsley Nnabuagha and the fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft : a study in imaginative convergence”. Part of the Compcros library run by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju.

* Henrik Boe Ueland (2010), “Frykten som litteraer erfaring : Grenseerfaring og transgresjon i H.P. Lovecraft’s forfatterskap”. Masters dissertation, University of Bergen, 2010. In Nowegian, with English summary. (“Fear as a Literary Experience : borders and transgression in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”).

New additions to my Open Lovecraft page…

* Cecile Colin (2012), “La maison hantee dans l’oeuvre de H.P. Lovecraft: l’homme, la mort, l’univers”, Transatlantica, 1, 2012. (In French. Part of the crime pulps special issue of Transatlantica. Title in English: “The Haunted House in the work of H.P. Lovecraft: man, death, and the universe”. Freely available mid Dec – mid Jan 2013, but since redacted? A link to the corrupted PDF is included here, in the hope the error is simply technical in nature).

* Rachel Mizsei Ward (2010), “Plushies, My Little Cthulhu and Chibithulu : The Transformation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu from Horrific Body to Cute Body”. Presented at Cine Excess IV: International Conference on Cult Film Traditions, Brunel University (UK), April 2010.

* Didier Kahn (2005), “La question de la palingenesie, de Paracelse a H.P. Lovecraft en passant par Joseph Du Chesne, Agrippa d’Aubigne et quelques autres, Journee Francois Secret : Les Muses Secretes : Kabbale, alchimie et litterature a la Renaissance, Verona Italy, 2005. (In French. English title: “The question of palingenesis [i.e., reincarnation, and] Paracelsus in H.P. Lovecraft…” Summary at HAL: “In this short history of early modern palingenesis [western beliefs in reincarnation] experiences, we discuss in depth the conceptions of Paracelsus and Joseph Du Chesne before turning to the literary fortune of palingenesis, notably in Agrippa d’Aubigne’s Les Tragiques, but also in a work by H.P. Lovecraft inspired by the seventeenth-century alchemist Pierre Borel.”).

Independent scholars might like to know about the new expanded free public access to JSTOR. Now offering free access to 1,200 humanities titles (nothing much directly relevant to Lovecraft, I looked), as well as to all pre-1923 journals (more likely to be of interest to Lovecraftians).

New additions to the Open Lovecraft page:

* Hannes Storhaug-Meyer (2010), The Morphology of the Unknown : the narrative technique of Howard Philips Lovecraft (Masters degree dissertation, University of Oslo)

* Elizabeth A. Clendinning and Kathleen McAuley (2010), “The Call of Cthulhu : narrativity of the cult in metal”, IN: The Metal Void: First Gatherings, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010.

Interesting news from S.T. Joshi, in his latest blog post, on a definitive Lovecraft ‘starter’ bibliography…

“I have been asked by Oxford University Press to prepare a bibliography of Lovecraft for some online venue. The idea is to present a list of the most important works by and about Lovecraft, with an emphasis on scholarly books and articles on all aspects of Lovecraft’s life, work, and thought. The bibliography will be continually updated. I have already prepared a rough draft of the work and hope to send it to the publisher well in advance of the due date of December 31.”