* S.P. Schultz, “An Integral Analysis of the Life and Works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)”. (November 2019 Masters dissertation for University of Saskatchewan. Finds Lovecraft’s work to have been successful, in terms of evoking and integrating the challenges faced by those living through the turbulent 1917-1937 period).

* A. Molnar, A Review of Lovecraftian Proceedings 2, Americana: e-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Spring 2018.

A seemingly new and ongoing PhD at a prestigious university in the UK, “Eldritch Angles: H.P. Lovecraft’s Reception of the Classical World“.

“Synchronistic Worlds: Lovecraft and Borges” was written in 1980, and has been collected in An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H.P. Lovecraft, edited by David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi. The digital version of the paper appears on The Garden of Forking Paths and Shipwreck Library courtesy of Barton Levi St. Armand and Hippocampus Press.

Creatio Fantastica, a Polish scholarly journal in public open-access. Also appears to be completely under Creative Commons Attribution.

A 2016 issue was a Lovecraft special with a Joshi translation as the lead article. A 2017 issue was on Tolkien, with a Thomas Honegger lead article.

Usefully available in .EPUB and .MOBI ebook formats, as well as .PDF files. The Creative Commons status presumably means that translations and digest summaries can be freely made.

* C. de Souza and R. Giroldo, “Um chamado que ecoa? A representacao dos mitos no jogo Call of Cthulhu, Revell, Revista de Estudos Litererios da UEMS, Vol. 2, No. 22, 2019. (In Portuguese. Analysis of the 2018 videogame Call of Cthulhu, based on the Chaosium RPGs).

* C. de Souza and R. Giroldo, “O intruso”, de H. P. Lovecraft: o unheimlich no espelho., Abusoes, No. 10, 2019. (In Portuguese. Reads “The Outsider” figure via the unheimlich, as filtered through later critics. Also explores how Lovecraft’s atmosphere interacts with this effect. Part of a special issue on the idea of the unheimlich).

PulpFest’s annual journal The Pulpster calls for your ideas and proposals for well-researched articles. Also artwork. 2020’s event will centre around Ray Bradbury in the pulps, the Black Mask title, and the cover-art of Margaret Brundage.

You can drop editor Bill Lampkin an email at bill@pulpfest.com and the sooner he hears from you, the better. He has to plan space for articles and start collecting artwork and illustrations.

Ad space is also available.

Canadian Archaeological Association 53rd Annual Conference, 2020: “Archaeology and Popular Culture”.

This session aims to look at the relationship between archaeology and popular culture.

How has archaeology influenced popular culture (e.g. the influence of archaeologist Margaret Murray’s research on H.P. Lovecraft’s story, “The Call of Cthulhu”)?

How has popular culture influenced archaeology (e.g. the role of Indiana Jones in the origin stories of many archaeologists today)?

How does the appearance of archaeology in various mediums of popular culture influence public perception of our field (e.g. archaeology within video games like The Sims 4: Jungle, Stardew Valley, and the Tomb Raider franchise)?

How can archaeology in popular culture be used to educate the public about our field and the archaeologists within it (e.g. the documentary television show Wild Archaeology)?

And what happens when the archaeology being shared with the public is incorrect, misappropriated, and pseudo-archaeological (e.g. television shows like Ancient Aliens and America Unearthed, books like Chariots of the Gods)?