Now available in my book Lovecraft in Historical Context #4.

26 Sunday Aug 2012
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Now available in my book Lovecraft in Historical Context #4.

25 Saturday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
* Ronald St. Pierre (2004), “Never Fully Realize”: Birth of a Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft’s “Dagon”, Shoin Literary Review, No.37, pp.15-36. (Literary journal of Kobe Shoin Women’s University, Japan).
24 Friday Aug 2012
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Added to the Open Lovecraft page:
* Marek Wilczynski (2008), “Secret passage through Poe: the transatlantic affinities of H.P. Lovecraft and Stefan Grabinski”, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 44, 2008.
* David Farnell (2007), “In a mirror, darkly”: finding ourselves reflected in the aliens of Melville, Lovecraft, Dick, and Butler”, Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities, Vol.39, 1, 2007, pp.105-127.
* Malotcsy Kalman (2004), “The Innsmouth “Thing”: Monstrous Androgyny in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep”, Gender Studies, Vol.1, No.3, 2004.
24 Friday Aug 2012
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An M.A. thesis from a religious university, currently only available via Google “Quick View”…
Geoffrey Reiter (2005), “A Dark Poem”: Lovecraft and his Puritans.
“This work examines the fiction and letters of H.P. Lovecraft […] and seeks to explore the way in which he incorporated Puritanism into his works and artistic philosophy, despite the fact that his materialistic worldview would not permit him to accept Puritan doctrinal tenets.”
It can be found with a Google “Quick View” link, via the following Google Search query:
lovecraft “Puritanism and Christianity” filetype:pdf
24 Friday Aug 2012
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Call for Proposals for academic book chapters: “The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture”.
Editors: Carl Sederholm at csederholm@byu.edu / Jeffrey Weinstock at Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu
250-word proposals are sought for chapters for an edited scholarly collection on H.P. Lovecraft and his place in 21st century literature, film, media, and popular culture. This collection will consider the late 20th and early 21st century as “The Age of Lovecraft”, as he achieves unprecedented levels of cultural saturation. In short, we will be asking ‘why Lovecraft, why now’?
Deadline for proposals: 31st October 31st 2012. Chapters of approximately 6,000 words due one year later.
21 Tuesday Aug 2012
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A new undergraduate final dissertation, freely available online. From Iceland, in English…
Sindri Eldon (2012), “Fully Human: gender conflict in two tales by H.P. Lovecraft”…
An analysis of gender conflict and the opposing natures of the female and the male in […] “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and “The Thing on the Doorstep”.
21 Tuesday Aug 2012
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Added to the Open Lovecraft page:
Eric Hoefler (2005), “Lovecraft Rising: Tracing the Growth of Scholarship on Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1990-2004”.
20 Monday Aug 2012
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Added to the Open Lovecraft page, listing Lovecraft scholarship freely available online…
* Patricia MacCormack (2007), “Baroque Intensity: Lovecraft, Le Fanu and the Fold”, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, No.2, March 2007.
* Leandro Antonio de Almeida (2005), “Reflexoes sobre aspectos da obra de H.P. Lovecraft”, Organon, Vol.19, No.38-39. (French analysis of “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family” and “The Lurking Fear”).
17 Friday Aug 2012
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Since Lovecraft’s birthday falls on a Monday this year, I’m releasing my ‘122nd birthday present’ a few days early, so readers can peruse it over the weekend. Enjoy Lovecraft’s 1927 essay “The History of the Necronomicon“, annotated by myself with 6,900 words of scholarly footnotes…

17 Friday Aug 2012
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The new 2012 edition of the Lovecraft Annual scholarly journal is now available, from Hippocampus Press. $15 with free shipping. Including:
Anna Klein, “Misperceptions of Malignity: Narrative Form and the Threat to America’s Modernity in “The Shadow over Innsmouth””.
Gavin Callaghan, “Elementary, My Dear Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft and Sherlock Holmes.”
13 Monday Aug 2012
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Added to the Open Lovecraft page…
Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2007), “Fiction in the Desert of the Real: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos”, Aries 7, pp.85-109.
Related to this essay’s theme of the French interpretation of Lovecraft are two blog articles by Jason Colavito: “Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft”; and “Lovecraft themes in Bergier’s later work”.
12 Sunday Aug 2012
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Other Worlds, a Victorian Network Conference, 3rd Dec 2012 in the UK.
“From other lands to other planets to other dimensions, the nineteenth-century imagination thrived on the idea of ‘elsewhere’. Other Worlds seeks to explore the many ways in which Victorians looked beyond to imagined alternatives … other, alternative, transcendent, secret or hidden.”