Now online, public Open Access back-issues of the CLIJ : Cuadernos de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, 1988-2009. This is the venerable Spanish monthly on children’s literature and illustrators, and the online archive from #1 in 1988 runs to over 2,000 articles. The magazine’s focus is on young and middle-childhood, and as such the magazine is very well illustrated. It doesn’t appear to cover things for more mature teen readers, like the Toutain empire of the Heavy Metal-like comics magazines of the 1980s and 90s.

Search and viewing is per-page and as such rather clunky. One easier way to get full-issue PDFs is via Google Search…

site:www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/ Lovecraft filetype:pdf

This also picks up post-2009 issues in .PDF format, and for instance I can get one from 2010 which would not be accessible via the site’s archive list. Some of the issue numbering seems to be astray, too. For instance, what downloads as clij-cuadernos-de-literatura-infantil-y-juvenil-137.pdf turns out to actually be #151.

Lead articles in CLIJ appear from random sampling to have a substantial focus on imported British and American culture in translation, and I see specials on R. L. Stevenson, J.M. Barrie, and American superhero comics as experienced in Spain (issue #151)…

#32 (1991) was a special on Gisbert, who was apparently strongly influenced by Lovecraft.

#80 (1996) had a survey of the stranger ends of fantasy literature, “From Zeus to Lovecraft”.

#236 (2010) had a long feature surveying horror literature in Spanish, for younger readers. Probably there are more specials to be found, if one wants to dig in.

* P. Bird, “The Occult as a Rejection of Darwinism in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan and H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Journal, KGU, No.8, March 2019. (Kyoto University, Japan)

* D.W. Wise, “The Hesitation Principle in ‘The Rats in the Walls'”, Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2020.

* N. Westberg, “Melankoli, isolering, galenskap och dod i verk av Edgar Allan Poe och Howard Phillips Lovecraft” (“Melancholy, isolation, madness and death in works of Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft”, 2020 undergraduate B.A. dissertation for the Linnaeus University, Sweden)

News from a departmental Facebook page that M.A. student Dylan Henderson “has successfully defended his thesis project” at University of Arkansas, this being enticingly entitled “Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft’s Fiction” (17 page sample at Proquest)…

“Lovecraft’s early fiction … from 1917 to 1924 … pays little attention to the natural landscape, though Lovecraft does, in story after story, allude to fabulous, semi-mythical cities. … After he returned to Providence … Lovecraft ceased describing Dunsanian cityscapes. Instead, he began to write about nightmarish cities located beneath the sea or on alien planets. Lovecraft’s approach to the natural landscape also began to change, resulting in a series of passionate descriptions that would seem to disrupt the mood he was trying to establish. … his last work of original fiction, “The Haunter of the Dark”, returns to Providence, which it describes in loving terms. … I argue that these passages, far from being gratuitous descriptions, change how we think of Lovecraft as a person, how we interpret his fiction, and how we understand his philosophical beliefs.”

Introduction: Lovecraftian Description
Landscape Description: A Formalist Approach
Gothic and Dunsanian Influences: Lovecraft’s Early Fiction (1917-1924)
Thesis: Urban Dystopia (1925)
Antithesis: Lovecraftian Pastoral (1928-1930)
Synthesis: Urban Pastoral (1935)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix

This sounds stimulating, I’d be interested to see it in the next Lovecraft Annual.

The timeline looks a little too neatly divided though. Significant chunks of his New York City post-Sonia period was spent in pursuit of a vanishing culture out on the old Dutch marshlands, or in suburban explorations in search of rare survivals of semi-rural old-time places, or in seeking out still-pleasant outlying parks where he could write. His night-walks could also be understood as a sort of rejection of the topography of the daytime city. And on his return to Providence, far from “ceasing” he actually plunged into five or six months of intense Dunsanian adventures with the writing of Dream-quest (summer 1926-early 1927). So, while there is undoubtedly a transition period, it is perhaps not as neatly divided as it at first appears.