HP Lovecraft's โ€œThe Pickman's Modelโ€: dissection by a nightmarish artist

An analysis of the symbolic substrate - from the catabasis in a truly existing underground Boston to the pre-Islamic folklore of the Ghouls - of the famous story by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Pickman's model (1926), recently adapted into one of the episodes of the TV series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022), directed by director Keith Thomas.

HP Lovecraft, the "lost worlds" and Theosophy

One of the things that most strike the reader who is familiar with the themes of esotericism is the large amount of traditional elements in Lovecraft's stories, which is very strange when one takes into account that he defined himself as a convinced advocate of mechanism and materialism. . These concepts, including that of the so-called "lost continents", did not come to him through authentically traditional sources, but through the cogitations and narratives of the theosophists of the late nineteenth century, which also inspired some colleagues of the Providence Dreamer, such as Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard.

"When the stars will be right": HP Lovecraft between prophecy and Apocalypse

In tales such as "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) and "Nyarlathotep "(1920) Howard Phillips Lovecraft foresaw the crisis of Western civilization that we are witnessing today, a century later: from this point of view, the boundless sequence of horrendous crime reports, spy of a world in prey, should be framed to an incurable and pervasive anguish, in which the seasons have altered their natural cycle and in which wars and revolutions follow one another continuously, throwing humanity into a situation of apparently irreversible crisis, destined to lead, "when the stars have returned to the right position โ€, in aโ€œ New Dark Age โ€.