Added to Open Lovecraft:

2022:

* E.S. Nilsson, Between the Eldritch and the Deep Blue Sea: A Study of Ecosystemic Configurations and the Ocean in Stories by H.P. Lovecraft. (Undergraduate final dissertation for Karlstads University).

* C. Agostini and E. Baggio, “A construcao de narrativas e os estudos de cultura material”, Revista Arqueologia Publica, Vol. 17, 2022. (How Lovecraft entices the reader to think about the formal ‘study of things of the past’).

* L. Mastropierro and M. Mahlberg, “Key words and translated cohesion in Lovecraft’s ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ and one of its Italian translations”, 2022. (“A comparison of Lovecraft’s original and a translation into Italian provides us with a nuanced understanding of the complex nature of cohesive networks [within such texts]”).

2021:

* Special issue of Studies in Gothic Fiction, Volume 7, 2021. (Five texts on adapting Lovecraft for games).

* J. Hunter, “Mysterium Horrendum: Exploring Otto’s Concept of the Numinous in Stoker, Machen, and Lovecraft”, book chapter IN: Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination, 2021. (Appears to be an open access deposit via Academia.edu? Note that their PDFs can only be freely accessed by non-members via a title search on Google Scholar).

* A. Lubon, “Scalanie uniwersum: krytyka translatorska posrod kontekstow recepcji przekladowej poezji H.P. Lovecrafta w Polsce, Przekladaniec, No. 42, 2021. (“Consolidating the Universe: Translation Criticism among Contexts of Translational Reception of H.P. Lovecraft’s Poetry in Poland”. Close study of sematic shifts over time, in Polish translations).

* L.K. da Rocha, “A Tradicao, A Critica E As Representacoes Da Modernidade Em Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Uma Analise Triangular Entre Literatura E Documentos De Intimidade.”, Revista Cadernos de Clio, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2021. (Short article in what appears to be a graduate journal in Portuguese. “Tradition, criticism and representations of modernity in Howard Phillips Lovecraft: a triangular analysis between literature and documents of intimacy”. Lovecraft’s responses to modernity and the ongoing modernizing processes. Lovecraft is an anti-modern agent, an individual who idealised a utopian society via pure values. This is reflected in his fiction.)

* O. Glain, “H.P. Lovecraft’s Zadok Allen: a rebirth of the New England backwoods dialect?”, Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise, Vol. 16, 2021. (In English with French abstract).

Also some interesting items without full-text, noted here only:

“‘Awed listening’: H. P. Lovecraft in classic and contemporary audio horror” (Broad survey, touches on Bloch: “In the radio work of Lovecraft acolyte Robert Bloch as well as shows such as Quiet, Please (1947-49) the ‘Lovecraftesque’ is strongly evident. Indeed, various dimensions to Lovecraft’s fiction make his oeuvre ideally suited to audio adaptation.”).

“Those who predicted the darkness: writing the end in Lovecraft and Houellebecq”. (“Surprisingly, very few critics have discussed Lovecraft’s considerable contribution to Houellebecq’s thinking. […] This first study devoted exclusively to the links between these two authors will examine the thematic and stylistic aspects of their respective eschatological visions.”).

“The Protoplasmic Imagination: Ernst Haeckel and H.P. Lovecraft”. (“For Haeckel, [protoplasm] was the missing piece in the puzzle that Darwin had almost completed, and with it the whole mystery and wonder of life was within explanatory reach. For Lovecraft, on the other hand, it was the very essence of the shapeless, primitive, and fundamentally menacing quality of life that civilization had to keep at bay.”).

New on SFCrowsnest is a book review by regular contributor Neale Monks, this time of Lovecraft’s Collected Essays Volume 4: Travel.

The Journal of Dracula Studies returns from the grave… now seemingly taken over by Kutztown University.

Hippocampus Press are now listing Lovecraftian Proceedings #4 (February 2022). A paperback of 300 pages of papers delivered at the ’emerging scholars’ event which flanked the NecronomiCon Providence 2019 convention. Looks like it has four historical/topographical articles of possible interest to me…

* The Influence of The Great Game on the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft: The Opening of Tibet and the Creation of Leng.

* The Necronomicon Yalensis and Lovecraft in Connecticut.

* A Lover of Past Phantoms: Lovecraftian Reflections in R. H. Barlow’s Life and Work.

* Neo-Gothic Decadence as a Pervasive Challenge in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Alexander Blok.

The full table of contents is here at Hippocampus. The volume can also be found on Amazon already, in paper. Issues #1 through #3 have appeared as budget £1 ebooks on Amazon UK, and I assume that #4 will also do so in due course.

Leftist Spanish newspaper El Pais has the article “H.P. Lovecraft’s thirst for scientific darkness”. The Spanish-language article muses on the new book in titled El Astronomicon Y Otros Textes En Defense De La Ciencia (‘The Astronomicon and Other Texts in Defence of Science’).

This translates Lovecraft’s various writing on astronomy and the Moon and also his public tussles with a local astrologer. I’m uncertain if it also has relevant extracts from the private letters.

This volume has an introduction by its translator, Oscar Mariscal. He introduces us to a Lovecraft who has been little-known, until now. This is Lovecraft the popularizer and defender of the science of astronomy. In these texts the world first sees this introverted young man’s hunger and thirst for a world of scientific knowledge, and glimpses a tormented inner life that will in time give rise to a cosmos of viscous monsters and star headed terrors … terrors capable of reaching across the cosmos and into the depths of our unconscious souls.

This commercial book was aided by an arts grant from the Ministry of Culture, something almost impossible to imagine happening in the UK.

S.T. Joshi’s Blog has updated. Joshi is tallying current submissions for the summer 2022 editions of his Penumbra mega-journal and the Lovecraft Annual. He’s now moving into the ‘call for submissions’ phase and there are opportunities in both publications…

I am somewhat short of material (especially articles) for Penumbra at this moment, so I encourage anyone out there who wishes to write about weird fiction (either a specific author or work in the field or some general topic) to send me an article. There is plenty of space! Lovecraft Annual also needs some filling up, but I imagine I will have a full issue in due course of time.

Great. I’ve sent a 6,000 word article in for Penumbra. Not on Lovecraft.

He also writes that he’s at work on the Long letters, which give tantalising glimpses of what the lost Lovecraft-to-Long letters contained (the period lost is Spring 1931 to 1937).

In a letter dating to May 1932, Long includes an extensive and explicit discussion of (hold on to your hats, people) sex. This is clearly a response to a letter Lovecraft wrote on the subject.