Edited by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

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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 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.

Contents

• Preface by Niels-Viggo S. Hobbs, Ph.D.
• Introduction by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson
• Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Shaping of the Lovecraftian Gaze by Heather Miller
• “Always-Already Unrepresentable”: Toward a Weird Poetics by Timothy J. Jarvis
• Translating the Necronomicon: Lineages of Dark Epistemology by Carlos A. González
• Cosmic Terror “Crystallised”: A Lovecraftian Episode in an Indian Epic? by Gus Kraus
• Translating Weirdness: Farnsworth Wright, World Literature, and the Creation of Weird Fiction by Eric Williams
• Rhode Island in 1912 A.D.: Immigration, Catholicism, and the Nativist Grotesque by Daniel J. Holmes
• Eldritch Institutions: Lovecraft and Butler Hospital by Taylor Walker
• Intertextuality and the Violability of Self in Twin Peaks by Katherine Kerestman
• Aspects of Evil in the Main Stories of H. P. Lovecraft by James R. M. Young
• I Am the Sovereign: Narrative, Spectacle and Cruel Optimism in Robert W. Chambers’s “The Repairer of Reputations” by Nathaniel R. Wallace
• The Phonotactics of Fear: H. P. Lovecraft and “Unknowable” Languages by Perry Neil Harrison
• Horrific Platonism by Eric Steinhart
• The Shadow over Lake Erie: A Trip to Cleveland and Its Influence on H. P. Lovecraft’s Innsmouth by Dale Allen Crowley
• Monster-Making in an Era of Entertainment by Kejia Wu
• Cops for Crops: Utopia and the Weird in The Wicker Man by Sean Lovitt
• Time as a Narrative Tool in “The Silver Key”: A Figural Interpretation of Randolph Carter by Zac Rutledge
• Appendix: Abstracts from The Sixth Biennial Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research, Providence, R.I., 15–18 August 2024
• Contributors
• Index

Bibliographic Information

Lovecraftian Proceedings Number 6. Edited by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2026; ISBN 978-1-61498-501-3; paperback; 320 pages.

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