* Anthony Christopher Camara (2013), Dark Matter : British Weird Fiction and the Substance of Horror, 1880-1927. (PhD thesis for UCLA. Examines Lovecraft’s predecessors in British fiction — Vernon Lee, Machen, Blackwood, Hodgson — and asks how they departed from the Gothic romance and the Victorian ghost story. Seems to lack a proper conclusion, but has a short coda survey article on later developments in British weird fiction)

* Arthur Jorge Dias de Morais Coelho (2013), “Os Mitos de H.P. Lovecraft e a cultura juvenil”, Anais : Semana de Historia, Vol. XIX, 2013. (In Spanish. “Of youth culture and the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft”. Asks how the mythos came to be such a key part of youth culture).

* Frederic Sayer (2004), “Horreur des villes maudites dans l’oeuvre de H.P. Lovecraft”, Belphegor : Litterature Populaire et Culture Mediatique, 3.2, 2004. (In French. Explores… “the combination of attraction and repulsion that these elements [architecture, degenerates, ancient cults] produce for the hero, who is a true double of the reader”)

* Sean Braune (2013), “How to Analyze Texts that Were Burned, Lost, Fragmented, or Never Written”, Symploke, Vol. 21, No. 1-2, 2013.

Handy Selected Letters Of H.P. Lovecraft wiki page, with a record for each letter. Partially complete.

* Sam Gafford (2012), “The Man Who Saved Hodgson!”, williamhopehodgson.wordpress.com, 6th July 2012. (On Herman Charles Koenig, a late associate of Lovecraft. Scholarly blog post, with reference footnotes)

* Lin Wang (2012), Celebration of the Strange : YouYang Zazu and its horror stories (PhD thesis. Chapter five proposes Lovecraft’s concept of cosmic fear as a useful tool for analysis of the… “many zhiguai tales [from China, that] deal with supernatural forces without definite monsters or explicit etiologies”)

New edition of The Fossil, with a two-page survey of library archives of amateur journalism collections.

* Shelby Hatfield, Rebekah Hobbs, Jared Lynch (2014), “Multilayered Specter, Multifaceted Presence: A Critical Edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Tomb”, Digital Literature Review, Vol.1, 2014.

* Daniel Iturvides Dutra (2013), “A poesia fantastica de H. P. Lovecraft: uma analise comparativa do poema Os Fungos de Yuggoth e o manuscrito “O Livro””, Manuscritica: Revista de Critica Genetica, No. 25, 2013. (In Spanish. Compares three sonnets from Yuggoth with the fragment “The Book”)

Lovecraft scholars will soon be able to access the major U.S. collection, which has been closed for a good while now. It’s been announced that the John Hay Library refurbishment at Brown University is on track, and that it…

“reopens in September [when] the Special Collections Reading Room will be available and reference services will resume.” The “magnificent first floor reading room” will become… “a new “open, welcoming study space”.

But it appears that the Lovecraft collection materials will be consulted in a new spot from September, in… “a new state-of-the-art special collections reading room in the area that formerly housed University Archives”.