* Conny Lippert (2013), “Lovecraft’s Grimoires: intertextuality and The Necronomicon“, Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama, No. 8, 2012-13, pp. 41-50. (Part of a Gothic Histories special edition).

* John Schmidt (2013), “Narrative (as) Madness and the End of the Talking Cure: H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls””, Pyxis: Wesleyan Journal of Humanities, Spring 2013.

* Alberto Acedo-Bravo and Jose Andres Quintela-Vila (2014), “Las presuposiciones pragmaticas en la obra de H.P. Lovecraft “El llamado de Cthulhu””, Santiago journal, No. 113, 2014. (In Spanish. Examines the “pragmatic presuppositions” that underpin the truth claims made in “The Call of Cthulhu”).

* Kevin Taylor (2013), Advanced 3D Production with Narrative (Masters disseration, details an ambitious attempt to create a new intellectual property “in the vein of Lovecraft’s Cthuhlu mythos”, via employing theoretical/psychology approaches alongside proven fantasy world-building methods. Abstract only, PDF available but embargoed until Nov 2015).

* Olmo Pedro Castrillo Cano (2013), “Memoria explicativa del trabajo de fin de master: “La sombra sobre Innsmouth”” (Masters disseration in Spanish, discusses “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”).

PLOS ONE, the free open-access science journal, has just launched the Marine Megafauna Collection of academic articles. Megafauna is scientific shorthand for “creatures of very large size”. The PLOS archives only contains articles from, naturally enough, the various PLOS journals. For a wider trawl, and free access to historical articles on the subject and its folklore and myth, use my JURN open-access academic journal search-engine.

Sadly, this is a fake picture. But fun…

The Collection accompanies a free open online learning course Marine Megafauna: An Introduction, which anyone can take to learn the basics of marine biology as its relates to the really big sea creatures. There’s an interview with the course leader.

* S.T. Joshi (2012), “Poe, Lovecraft, and the Revolution in Weird Fiction”, text of a lecture delivered at the Ninth Annual Commemoration Program of the Poe Society, 7th October 2012. Published on the website of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.

* Patricia Garcia (2012), “The fantastic of place and the fantastic of space: two models of transgression”, Letras & Letras, Vol.28, No.2 (2012). (Part of a substantial special issue on horror and the fantastic. In English, with Spanish abstract).

* Brian S. Matzke (2013), All Scientific Stuff: Science, Expertise, and Everyday Reality in 1926. (PhD thesis for The University of Michigan. One short section is relevant: “Amazing Stories’ weird tale: “The Colour out of Space””.

* Elisa Gorusuk (2013), “Science et mythologie dans les oeuvres d’Howard Phillips Lovecraft”. (Masters disseration in French, examines the interplay of science and mythology in four key works).

Free Coursera online course, Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World. 11 weeks, starts 3rd February 2014.

Those interested in the British fantasy writer Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast) may be interested to learn that the journal Peake Studies has converted to being an open access journal. Sadly it’s not the entire run since 1988 that’s gone open access, only the first three issues of what appears to be a new series.

* Ben Woodard (2013), On an Ungrounded Earth: towards a new geophilosophy. Punctum Books, 2013. (Contemporary Lovecraftian philosophy).

* Luana Ferreira de Freitas (2011), “Insanidade fantastica”, Fragmentos July-Dec 2011, Vol.22 No.2, pp. 87-92. (Discusses insanity in fantasy literature, via hallucination in E.A. Poe and compulsion in H.P. Lovecraft. Brazilian Portuguese, with English abstract).

* Marco Antonio Rivera Gutierrez (2011), “Horror y figuratividad: la semiotica del espacio en el relato de terror”. (Approximate translation of title: “Horror and figuration: a semiotics for the spatialisation of terror”. In Spanish with English abstract).

* Marco Antonio Rivera Gutierrez (2011), “”The Outsider”, un Sujeto sin Destinador: analisis de las estructuras semionarrativas de superficiedesde la semiotica narrativa estandar”. (Semiotic analysis of the structual logic of “The Outsider”. In Spanish with English abstract).

* Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm (2013), “Actual Qualities of Imaginative Things: notes towards an object oriented literary theory” (Contemporary Lovecraftian philosophy).

* Mary Corr (2013), “Dr. Franklin C. Clark: early mentor to H.P. Lovecraft — the master of ‘weird tales’”, Rhode Island Medical Journal, December 2013, pp. 73-74. (Factually correct, but only a short magazine ‘filler’ article).

* Milosz Wisniewski (2013), “Swiat Howarda Philipsa Lovecrafta w ujeciu religioznawczym”, Humaniora: Czasopismo Internetowe, No.1, 2013, pp. 99–105. (In Polish, with English abstract. Applies the theories of Romanian researcher Mircea Eliade to Lovecraft’s mythology).

* Bradley Allen Will (1998, 2013), The “supramundane”: The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson”. (Ph.D. thesis, placed online 2013. Explores the sublime experience of discovering something that exceeds human understanding).

* Steven E. Jones (2013), The Emergence of the Digital Humanities: Chapter 2, “Dimensions”. (Has several pages on ideas of “Lovecraftian dimensionality” in relation to knowledge).

* Duran Flores Merlin Lisseth and Pineda Zaldana Maritza Beatriz (2013), “El terror u horror como eje estructurante en los cuentos “El extrano”, “El sabueso” y “El ser bajo la luz de la luna” de Howard Phillips Lovecraft” (Joint undergraduate disseration, University of El Salvador).

* Tanya Krzywinska (2013), “Digital games and the American gothic: investigating gothic game grammar”, Intersemiose, Vol.2, No.4, July-Dec 2013. (About videogames, not tabletop RPGs).

* Sonja M. Karlas (2013), “Kosmicki horor, gotsko telo i tekst: H.P. Lovecraft “senka nad insmutom”, Journal for Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sadu, Vol.3, No.3, 2013. (Title translates as “Cosmic horror, gothic bodies and texts: H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”).

* Paulo de Tarso Cabrini Jr., (2013), “A literatura espirita: angelo inacio e os contos de H.P. Lovecraft”, Revista Litteris, Vol.2, No.12, Sept 2013. (In Portuguese. Theorises about spiritualist literature, and looks at so-called ‘spirit dictated’ spiritualist books in relation to Lovecraft).