He's out issue 19 of "Lovecraftian Studies", a journal of studies dedicated to the Providence Dreamer published by Dagon Press. In this issue, also our full intervention on the issue concerning the racism of HP Lovecraft, particularly thorny in recent years.
We are very honored to open with our essay HP Lovecraft, the New Babel and the "Witch Hunt 2.0" the last register of ยซLovecraftian Studiesยป, published as always by the never sufficiently praised Pietro Guarriello della Dagon Press. It is a job that has engaged us for months and to which we care very much, by virtue of certain ideological distortions, typical of the post-modern era in which we live, which risk invalidating and nullifying the entire recovery operation. Lovecraftian work that has been carried out in small steps over the last 80 years. For this reason, the satisfaction of seeing this publication in 1st place in the Amazon ranking of โHorror and Supernatural Literary Criticismโ and in 2nd place of โScience Fiction and Fantasy Literary Criticismโ is truly enormous for us. Attached, a preview for our readers, are some excerpts from our essay, which occupies more than 20 pages of this latest issue of the magazine:
To follow, the cover, the official presentation released by Dagon Press e the index of the register:
With the arrival of the dark days of February, the new number of STUDI LOVECRAFTIANI also comes out, which reaches its nineteenth appointment with a very rich number: it starts with two interventions that shed light and illuminate the alleged accusations of racism of which the writer is was a victim in this period of "witch hunt 2.0", as defined by Marco Maculotti in his well-documented essay on the subject. Read it, and your opinions (if you think HPL's tales show this "dark side") will never be the same! The other intervention to have his say on "Lovecraft and racism" is none other than ST Joshi, the writer's leading world expert and person beyond suspicion (being himself of color, of Indian origin and immigrant to soil American). Two interventions that finally say clearly how things stand, and which we hope will help to ease the controversy of these days.
We continue with a special DOSSIER which, as can also be understood from the cover of the good Pietro Rotelli, is entirely dedicated to "The Cats of Ulthar", a story that has recently celebrated its century and which we celebrate here with a new complete and annotated translation, in which reveals the secrets behind the text, followed by articles, fiction and even a comic dedicated to Lovecraft's cat story. That's not all: further essays illustrate other stories and themes dear to the Providence writer. Davide Arecco talks to us about the "Lovecraftian archetypes of the alien invasion" behind the work of authors such as John Wyndham, Robert McCammon and Stephen King, Miranda Gurzo discusses "Lovecraft and witchcraft" (also extrapolating from the writer's unpublished letters concerning a his mysterious correspondent, a true witch!), while Renzo Giorgetti points out curious parallels with the great Dante present in the story โIn the Vaultโ.
Then an article by Roberto Del Piano reminds us of an old (and false, as we now discover, since it was cast in friendship) Lovecraftian controversy that involved him and Giuseppe Lippi, which is also a way to remember with sympathy the best Italian curator of HPL and not. alone. Then another comic, by Teodorani and Farinelli (with a powerful and even erotic appearance of Cthulhu!), A Lovecraftian story by Pietro Rotelli, and some reviews and reports close an issue that, we are sure, will remain memorable in the annals of the magazine. Cthulhu Fhtagn!
