Open Lovecraft:
recent scholarly works relevant to H.P. Lovecraft, freely published online:
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* Julio Franca (Oct 2011), “Fundamentos Esteticos da Literatura de Horror: A influencia de Edmund Burke sobre H. P. Lovecraft“. (Article in Spanish on the influence of Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful on Lovecraft).
* Cecile Cristofari (2011), “The Tainted Birth in Lovecraft’s Fiction“.
* James Kneale (2011), “Monstrous and Haunted Media: H.P. Lovecraft and Early Twentieth-Century Communications Technology“. (Appears to be Feb 2011. His earlier paper “From beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the place of horror” is also available, originally in Cultural Geographies 13, 1 (2006), pp. 106-126).
* David Haden (2011), Walking With Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft as psychogeographer, New York City 1924-26.
* Micheal Gentry (2011), “Parser at the Threshold: Lovecraftian horror in interactive fiction“. (In the book: IF Theory Reader, March 2011).
* Matthew Strohack (2011), “The City under the Hill: Allegorical Tradition and H.P. Lovecraft’s America.” A chapter in the book American Exceptionalisms: From Winthrop to Winfrey, SUNY Press, December 2011. (Available to read online at Google Books.)
* K.R. Bolton (2011), “The Influence of H.P. Lovecraft on Occultism“, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, #9.
* David Reinecke (2011), “From the Pulps to the Stars: The Making of the American Science Fiction Magazine, 1923-1973″. Princeton University CACPS Working Paper #44, Fall 2011. (An empirical/industry-structure analysis of the rise of SF in America).
* Ben Woodard (2011), “Mad Speculation and Absolute Inhumanism: Lovecraft, Ligotti, and the Weirding of Philosophy“. Continent 1.1, pp. 3-13.
* Nathan Vernon Madison (2010), Isolationism, Internationalism and the ‘Other’: The Yellow Peril, German Brute and Red Menace in Earlyto Mid Twentieth Century Pulp Magazines and Comic Books. (See the chapter: “The Yellow Peril: the American Pulps Between the World Wars, 1919-1935″).
* Kristjon Runar Halldorsson (2010), H.P. Lovecraft: The Enlightenment & connection to the world of Cosmicism.
* Matolcsy Kalman (2010), Confronting the Boundless and Hidous Unknown: science, categorization, and naming in H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction.
* Sandro D. Fossemo (2010), “Cosmic terror from Poe to Lovecraft: the fear of unknown from the abyss of the soul to cosmic chaos“.
* The Italian scholarly journal Studi Lovecraftiani (#12, July 2010) is free online.
* JoIF, 2010. History of Lovecraftian scholarship and fandom (Overlay journal).
* Joakim Bengtsson (2009), Tentative outline: the Ending and the Solution of Conflicts in [? name truncated, title not on document - probably "...the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft"]. (10,000 words, seems to be a Masters dissertation?).
* Jean Carlo Lavoie Montemiglio (2009), H.P. Lovecraft: etude comparative de recits des origines. August 2009. In French. English summary. ["... a close comparison of similar motifs present in Lovecraft’s novella, At the Mountains of Madness and in Hesiod's poem, Theogony"]
* Graham Harman and Kieth Tilford (2009), “On the Horror of Phenomenology: Lovecraft and Husserl / Singular Agitations and a Common Vertigo”. Collapse ‘Concept Horror’ special issue, 2009.
* Jonathan Maximilian Gilbert (2008), “The Horror, the Horror”: the Origins of a Genre in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1880–1914. (A doctoral thesis).
* Jacob M. Hodgen (2008), ‘Boot Camp for the Psyche’: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film. See the chapter “‘All the Cosmos is a Jest’: Preemptive Trauma Mediation in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”.
* Sage Leslie-McCarthy (2007), The Case of the Psychic Detective: progress, professionalism and the occult in psychic detective fiction from the 1880s to the 1920s.
* Mary Hemmings (2006), The Changing Role of Women in Science Fiction: Weird Tales, 1925-1945 (The essay also appeared in: the book The Influence of Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy as Agents of Social Change (2008); and in Gender Research Symposium Proceedings : March 17, 2006).
* Abbey Kerins (2006), Walking Upon Hollow Earth: The Juvenilia of H.P. Lovecraft.
* Ian Almond (2004), “Sufi Motifs in the Stories of H.P Lovecraft“. Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 3:3.
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Thank you! I’ve been trawling for online articles for a while, wish I’d found your post earlier!