Houdini fans following this blog may be interested in the new academic journal for stage magic, Journal of Performance Magic.

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2014, University of Liverpool, UK. 10th March 2014. Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2014.

* Gretchen Marie Kasting (2013), Without contraries there is no progression : scientific speculation and absence in Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and “The Colour out of Space””. (Masters dissertation, University of Texas at Austin)

* Luciana Moura Colucci de Camargo (2013), “Presenca da tradicao da espacialidade gotica nos contos The Tapestried Chambre e The Dreams in the Witch House”, Anais do Silel, Volume 3, Number 1, 2013. (In Spanish. Compares the use of domestic space in Sir Walter Scott’s “The Tapestried Chamber” with Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House”)

* Luis Vieira (2013), “Historicidade e temporalidade na literatura de horror de Lovecraft”, Epigrafe edition zero, 2013. (In Spanish. “The Call of Cthulhu” as a historical document relating to the literary avant-garde of the mid 1920s)

Added to the Open Lovecraft page on this blog:

* Jean-Emmanuel Filet (2013), Du Livre des Songes au Livre des Ages: recherches, creations sur le reve et la temporalite par la composition de deux corpus musicaux. (Part of a thesis. In French with English abstract. Description of the work undertaken for the chamber opera H.P.L. Outsider, based on H.P Lovecraft, which was the principal focus of the author’s doctoral degree).

* Erika L. Mutter (2013), Explaining the Unexplainable: a new cultural outlook on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos (Possibly a Masters dissertation? Looks at narrator identification with aliens).

* Juan Luis Perez de Luque (2013), Communal Decay: narratological and ideological analysis of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction (Thesis. Partly also published in English in Lovecraft Annual 2013, as “Lovecraft, Reality, and the Real: A Zizekian Approach”).

Added to this blog’s Open Lovecraft page:

* Brian J. Reis (2013), “Structurally Cosmic Apostasy: the atheist occult world of H.P. Lovecraft”, LUX : A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research, Vol 3, No.1, 2013. (On Lovecraft in relation to the Theosophists)

* Chris Laliberte (2013), “The Real In R’lyeh: on Lacan and Lovecraft”, with caffeine & careful thought, Vol 1. No.1, 2013. (Seems to be the house ejournal of the English Dept. at the University of Toronto)

* Justin Woodman (2004), “Alien Selves: modernity and the social diagnostics of the demonic in “Lovecraftian Magick”, Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, 2, 2004.

New ejournal, Beyond Borderlands : a critical journal of the weird, paranormal, and occult.

Only just heard about this. Occult Humanities conference, 18th-20th October 2013 in New York…

“The conference will present a wide array of voices active in the cultural landscape who are specifically addressing the occult tradition through research, scholarship and artistic practice. [from] a rich and expanding community of international artists and academics from multiple disciplines across the humanities who share an exuberance and excitement for how the occult traditions interface with their fields of study as well as the culture at large.”

Hopefully the organisers will summon up some of that occult ‘action at a distance’ thing, and put session podcasts online in the near future.

I checked the Open Lovecraft page page for link-rot, and have repaired where needed.

My JURN search-engine has just had its annual full check-and-repair. JURN lets you search inside 4,538 free ejournals in the arts & humanities, and the results gives full-text access to all articles. Rather handy for independent scholars who have no access to commercial academic journal collections.

My JURN Directory has also been also repaired and updated. This organised directory contains links to the home-pages of the 3,000 English-language ejournals included in JURN.

The other Mr. Joshi.