A new book, Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium…

“Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place on 11th March 2011 at The New School. Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction.”

The volume includes “Symptomatic Horror: Lovecraft’s ‘The Colour Out of Space’” by Kate Marshall.

Above: gratuitious-but-great illustration of the crossing scene in “Innsmouth” by Alberto Vazquez.

Not really very relevant to Lovecraft (perhaps the nearest Lovecraft gets to this ancient theme is “The Strange High House in the Mist”?), but interesting enough to mention here…

“A two-day multidisciplinary conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin, 20th-21st July 2012, to explore the role of green man and wild man motifs in twentieth and twenty-first century children’s culture.”

Keele University (North Staffordshire, England) is to host a conference of historians and literary specialists that may appeal to Lovecraftian scholars in the UK. “Science and Literature, 1800 to Present: Two Cultures or Co-evolution?” is a postgraduate conference set for 12th May 2012. The event will examine the long history of interplays between the sciences and the arts, seen most especially in science fiction.

A paywalled Penn State University Press academic journal, Preternature, is seeing papers for a special issue on: “Monstrophy: The Academic Study of Monsters”…

“Preternature is an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the preternatural as seen in magics, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, prophecy, monstrophy, demonology, and folklore. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural. […] Contributions are welcome from any discipline, time period, or geographic provenance, so long as the discussion highlights the cultural, literary, religious, or historical significance of the topic. Final Papers are due 15th April 2012.”

Interesting article from 2004, online for free…

Evans, Timothy H., “Tradition and illusion: antiquarianism, tourism and horror in H.P. Lovecraft“, Extrapolation 45:2 (2004), pages 176-195.

A new page on the blog, Open Lovecraft. It collects all the open access / free scholarly works I’ve been pointing to recently, and orders them by date.