Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 6 - Paperback

by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson (Editor)

This sixth volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings, including selected papers from the Armitage Symposium of NecronomiCon Providence 2024, presents numerous advances in Lovecraft scholarship. From a biographical perspective, Daniel J. Holmes examines Lovecraft's early poem "Providence in 2000 A.D." (1912); Dale Allen Crowley studies Lovecraft's trip to Cleveland in 1922 and its influence on his writing; and Taylor Walker presents an historical account of Butler Hospital, where both of Lovecraft's parents died.

Heather Miller analyzes the influence of Melville's Moby-Dick upon Lovecraft; Carlos González investigates Lovecraft's influence on the Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez; James R. M. Young conducts a philosophical study of evil in Lovecraft's work; Gus Kraus ponders the influence of Indian religious texts on Lovecraft; and Perry Neil Harrison studies the Necronomicon in the context of phonotactics. More theoretical papers broach the concept of a "weird poetics" and the possibility of a horrific Platonism.

Other essays treat such subjects as Farnsworth Wright's inclusion of translated horror stories in Weird Tales; Robert W. Chambers's disturbing dystopian tale, "The Repairer of Reputations," from The King in Yellow; the role of intertextuality in the in the TV show Twin Peaks; and the film The Wicker Man as a twisted utopia.

All in all, this book contains a bountiful and diverse group of papers expanding our knowledge of Lovecraft and weird fiction.