Out Now: Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4

Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4 

Edited by Dennis P. Quinn and Elena Tchougounova-Paulson 

Purchase from Hippocampus Press: https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/lovecraftian-proceedings/lovecraftian-proceedings-no.-4

ISBN 9781614983613


February 2022

304 pp 

$20.00

Cover art by Pete Von Sholly




This fourth volume of selected papers from the Dr. Henry M. Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium, delivered at NecronomiCon Providence 2019, contains an array of groundbreaking articles on Lovecraft’s life, work, and thought. Papers by Kyle Gamache and Thomas Schwaiger, focus on Lovecraft’s relations with his brilliant young friend R. H. Barlow, whose story “The Night Ocean” is one of the finest weird tales of its era. Elena Tchougounova-Paulson and Christian Roy address connections between Lovecraft’s work and that of the philosophers Alexander Blok and Georges Bataille.

Benjamin Davis studies contemporary views of Tibet in reference to Lovecraft’s citation of that obscure realm. Heather Poirier traces the relationship of Lovecraft’s work with the Southern literature of his time, while Jeremiah Dylan Cook probes the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herbert S. Gorman on “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” Other papers discuss the Necronomicon, such seminal tales as “The Outsider,” “Pickman’s Model,” “The Colour out of Space,” and At the Mountains of Madness, and other vital topics. In all, the essays in this volume constitute cutting-edge scholarship on one of the most provocative authors of his time.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Niels-Viggo S. Hobbs



Introduction: Haunting Phantasms—A Bookworm Edition

Elena Tchougounova-Paulson and Dennis P. Quinn



Zahhak Beside Cthulhu: Philosophizing with Monsters in Persian Mythology and American Horror

Robert Landau Ames



The Influence of The Great Game on the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft: The Opening of Tibet and the Creation of Leng

Benjamin Davis



The Necronomicon Yalensis and Lovecraft in Connecticut

Edward Guimont



Lovecraft’s Archive: Materiality and Readership in Lovecraft’s Fiction

Cole Donovan



The Outsiders: Mapping Lovecraft’s Loathing

Paul Neimann



The Ebb of Sanity: “The Night Ocean” and Bipolar Disorder

Kyle Gamache



The Weird Within the Real: Common Territories in Lovecraft’s Fiction and Southern Literature

Heather Poirier



A Lover of Past Phantoms: Lovecraftian Reflections in R. H. Barlow’s Life and Work

Thomas Schwaiger



American Frankensteins: George Porter and George Poe, and Their Attempts to Reanimate the Dead in New England

Michael J. Bielawa



Encounters in the Mountains of Madness: H. P. Lovecraft and Werner Herzog at the World’s End

Lúcio Reis-Filho, Laura Cánepa, and Jamer de Mello



Fear and (Non) Fiction: Agrarian Anxiety in “The Colour out of Space”

Antonio Alejandro Barroso



Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herbert S. Gorman’s Shadows over Innsmouth

Jeremiah Dylan Cook



Neo-Gothic Decadence as a Pervasive Challenge in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Alexander Blok

Elena Tchougounova-Paulson



Lovecraft’s Accursed Share in Bataille’s General Economy: Antiutilitarian Cosmologies and Anti-capitalist Social Visions

Christian Roy



A Sequence of Paintings So Horrible: Montage in Visual Adaptations of “Pickman’s Model

Nathaniel R. Wallace



Contributors



Appendix: Abstracts from the Fourth Biennial Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research Providence, RI, 23–25 August 2019

Dennis P. Quinn, Chair



Index

Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 2 Now Available

Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 2
Edited by Dennis Quinn
https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/lovecraftian-proceedings/lovecraftian-proceedings-no.-2

August 2017
ISBN 978-1-61498-190-9
$20.00
~250 pp
Cover art by Pete Von Sholly
 

Lovecraftian Proceedings is the Official Organ of the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Symposium.



A key part of NecronomiCon Providence, the Armitage Symposium fosters exploration of Lovecraft as a rationalist who created an elaborate cosmic mythology, and how this mythology was influenced by, and has come to influence, numerous other authors and artists.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS




Introduction

Dennis P. Quinn



Abbreviations


Dreams of Antiquity: H. P. Lovecraft's Great Roman Dream of 1927

Byron Nakamura



The Poet’s Nightmare: The Nature of Things According to Lovecraft

Sean Moreland



Reordering the Universe: H. P. Lovecraft’s Subversion of the Biblical Divine

René J. Weise



Resisting Cthulhu: Milton and Lovecraft’s Errand in the Wilderness

Marcello Ricciardi



“The Discriminating Urban Landscapist": Tradition and Innovation in the Architectural Writings of H. P. Lovecraft

Connor Pitetti



Tentacles in the Madhouse: The Role of the Asylum in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

Troy Rondinone



Unspeakable Languages: Lovecraft Editions in Spanish

Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque



Color out of Mind: Correlating the Cthulhu Mythos Universe to the Autism Disorder Spectrum

Lars G. Backstrom



Darwin and the Deep Ones: Anthropological Anxiety in "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and Other Stories

Jeffrey Shanks



The “Inside” of H. P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in the Visual Arts

Nathaniel R. Wallace



H. P. Lovecraft’s Optimism

Matthew Beach



Insider, Outsider: From the Commonplace to the Uncanny in H. P. Lovecraft’s Narration and Descriptions

Daphnée Tasia Bourdages-Athanassiou

H. P. Lovecraft, Georges Bataille, and the Fascination of the Formless: One Crawling Chaos Seen Emerging from Opposite Shores

Christian Roy



Ripples from Carcosa: H. P. Lovecraft, True Detective, and the Artist-Investigator

Heather Poirier



Lovecraft for the Little Ones: ParaNorman, Plushies, and More

Faye Ringel and Jenna Randall



Contributors



Appendix

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium,

NecronomiCon Providence 20-23 August, 2015

Chair: Dennis P. Quinn



Index