This section catalogs the articles and excerpts in which the mythological question is presented in a fantastic or science fiction literary form, with a particular focus on the cosmic horror of the Lovecraftian school and the folk horror in its literary and cinematic variants.
HP Lovecraft
- “Oniricon”: HP Lovecraft, the Dream and the Elsewhere (M. Maculotti).
- HP Lovecraft, the New Babel and the witch hunt 2.0 (part I).
- HP Lovecraft, the New Babel and the advent of the New Dark Age (part II).
- Beasts, men or gods: HP Lovecraft's alien cults (A. Scarabelli).
- Lovecraft, or the inconsistency of the real (S. Fusco).
- "When the stars will be right": HP Lovecraft between prophecy and Apocalypse (M. Gurzo).
- HP Lovecraft, the "lost worlds" and Theosophy (M. Gurzo).
- HP Lovecraft's “The Pickman's Model”: dissection by a nightmarish artist (M. Gurzo).
- He who looked into the abyss: HP Lovecraft and "The ocean at night" (M. Maculotti + complete story).
- HP Lovecraft: "Under the Pyramids" (M. Maculotti + complete story).
- HP Lovecraft, the "doors of perception" and the "cracks in the Great Wall" (R. Giorgetti).
- HP Lovecraft: "Poetry and the Gods" (full story).
- On HP Lovecraft's “Randolph Carter”: the Dream, Death and the Sublime (L. of Joseph).
- Chronicles of the End: from Machen's “Terror” to Lovecraft's “Color” (M. Maculotti).
- HP Lovecraft & JRR Tolkien: world creators in the century of irrationalism (N. May).
Arthur Machen
- Arthur Machen and the awakening of the Great God Pan (M. Maculotti).
- Terror and Ecstasy: Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams" (M. Maculotti).
- Arthur Machen and the panic charm of the uncanny (L. Pennacchi).
- Arthur Machen's "Other Reality" (L. Pennacchi).
- Arthur Machen: Witchcraft & Holiness (extract).
Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe, singer of the abyss (J.Padoan).
- On the "snow-white" Giant that stands out on the horizon at the end of EA Poe's Gordon Pym (F. Lamendola).
- Prophetic Edgar Allan Poe: the “Gordon Pym” and synchronicities (M. Maculotti, translator).
- Edgar Allan Poe and the criticism of the real in humorous farces (A. Box).
Gustav Meyrink
- Gustav Meyrink at the frontiers of the occult (M. Maculotti).
- The mask of the Daimon: Gustav Meyrink and the "Metamorphosis of the blood" (M. Maculotti).
- EVERY SOUL IS A STAR — 1) Gustav Meyrink (F.Margotti).
- Gustav Meyrink, "The green face" (extract).
Other writers of supernatural fiction
- Blackwood: the "Panic of the Wilderness" and of infinite distance (M. Maculotti).
- Eyes, puppets and doppelgänger: the "uncanny" in "Der Sandmann" by ETA Hoffmann (I) (M. Maculotti).
- Reality, illusion, magic and witchcraft: the "uncanny" in ETA Hoffmann's "Nocturnes" (II) (M. Maculotti).
- The supernatural horror of Montague Rhodes James (M. Maculotti).
- From Montague Rhodes James to Ari Aster's “Hereditary” (M. Maculotti).
- From Stonehenge to Rapa Nui: Donald Wandrei and the return of the Titans (M. Maculotti).
- Pan's Awakening in Victorian-Edwardian England: "The Garden of # 19" by Edgar Jepson (M. Maculotti).
- The diabolical conferences of Arthur Christopher Benson (M. Maculotti).
- "The House on the Abyss" by William Hope Hodgson (A. Box).
- William Hope Hodgson's Journey at the End of the Night (M. Maculotti).
- With Abraham Merritt on the Vessel of Ishtar (M. Maculotti).
- Underworld civilization in science fiction fiction (M. Maculotti).
- Muses, sirens and black stars: the cruel tales of Carlo H. De 'Medici (M. Maculotti).
- The Waves of Destiny: The Tales of the North Seas by Jonas Lie (M. Maculotti).
- Rudyard Kipling's India between folklore, terror and wonder (M. Maculotti).
- The Geist, the Mana and the "magic naturalis" in Clark Ashton Smith's sword & sorcery (S. Baricchi).
- “Poseidonis”: the fall of Atlantis as seen by Clark Ashton Smith (L. Pennacchi).
- Shirley Jackson, the witch next door (P. Mathlouthi).
- In the beginning was the Word: the fantasy of Philip K. Dick in "Ubik" (A. Box).
- Viruses, Vampires and Zombies: The Pandemic Theme in Modern Fantastic (J.Padoan).
- The "memetic contagion" in the metropolitan folklore of Danilo Arona (F. Cerofolini).
- “I remember Lemuria!”: The Shaver Mystery, a myth for the atomic age (F. Cerofolini).
- Science and fantasy: “Etidorhpa”, John Uri Lloyd's Hollow Earth (A. Scarabelli).
- “Ombra”, the chivalrous arabesque of the poet who anticipated the fantasy-quest and… Jung (M. Maculotti).
- “Follettiana”: 14 classic tales from all over the world about fairy beings (M. Maculotti).
- For an anthropological reading of the "Journey into the Matamonia of Esagro Noroi", by Lucio Besana (St Celant).
- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, adventurer of the unconscious (M. Vallora).
- Sarban, the pilgrim from the heart of darkness (P. Mathlouthi).
- Sauron, the Demiurge of Middle-earth (A. Box).
- JRR Tolkien, the human story of a twentieth century hobbit (L. Pennacchi).
- JRR Tolkien and the fall of Arthur (L. Pennacchi).
- Robert E. Howard, the gentle giant of Cross Plains (L. Pennacchi).
- The dark soul of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, the "anti-Tolkien" (R. Confalone).
- The Victorian “Gothic Revival” and the romantic nostalgia for the Middle Ages (N. May).
- “Indomite”: the witches' tales of Simona Friuli (P. Mathlouthi).
- “Dune”: an esoteric analysis. Cosmism and the latent powers of man (D. Palmieri).
- The secrets of “Dune”. Mysticism and psychedelia of the Fremen people (D. Palmieri).
- Borges hunting for dragons: the Nordic heritage in the work of the Argentine Master (A. Anselm).
- Borges hunting for dragons: the Nordic heritage in the work of the Argentine Master (part II) (A. Anselm).
- Escape from the prison of the mind: "Gormenghast" by Mervyn Peake (P. Mathlouthi).
- The headless horseman. Washington Irving, the dark face of America (P. Mathlouthi).
- The island of the dead: from Böcklin's visions to Fabrizio Valenza's novel (Obsidian Mirror).
Editorial office
- Interview with Giuseppe Lippi: "The fantastic is the exception, not the rule" (A. Scarabelli).
- The Fantastic and the shipwreck of reality: “Looks on the Unknown. Decameron of the Mystery ”for 2020 (A. Scarabelli).
- "Beyond the real" (L. Pennacchi).
- “Beyond the Real”: for a Metaphysics of the Fantastic (C. Stanghellini).
- “Beyond the Real”, or of the literary dignity of the Fantastic (M. Pelagatti).
- “Weird literature: narrating the unthinkable”. Interview with Francesco Corigliano (L. Pennacchi).
Thomas Ligotti and T
- Thomas Ligotti's influence on the genesis of "True Detective" (M. Maculotti).
- The human being as multiplicity: mask, "doppelgänger" and puppet (M. Maculotti).
- In the dark meanders of Carcosa (L. Pennacchi).
- “True Detective”: Rust Cohle's Weltanschauung (M. Maculotti).
- "True Detective": the Devouring Time and the Eternal Return (M. Maculotti).
- "True Detective": Childress, Pan and the Wildermann (M. Maculotti).
- “True Detective”: Rust Cohle's Final Ascension (M. Maculotti).
Cinema and other visions
- “The Wicker Man”: from folklore to folk-horror (M. Maculotti).
- “Penda's Fen”: the sacred daimon of ungovernability (M. Maculotti).
- “Midsommar”: the coronation of Beauty and the expulsion of the Beast (M. Maculotti).
- “Picnic at Hanging Rock”: an Apollonian allegory (M. Maculotti).
- Nocturnal voices at the Sublicio bridge (M. Maculotti).
- “The house with laughing windows”: fetishes and (self) sacrifices (M. Maculotti).
- 25 years of "Arcano Enchanter": conversation with Pupi Avati (T. De Brabant).
- From "The invasion of the body snatchers" to "The Thing": infection, possession and dehumanization (M. Maculotti).
- David Cronenberg: the Demon in Matter (R. Siconolfi).
- 30 years of “Bram Stoker's Dracula” (J.Padoan).
- “The Shining”: in the labyrinths of the psyche and time (P. Formichetti).
- States of hallucination (M. Maculotti).
- The internal empire: hidden notes on David Lynch's cinema (R. Siconolfi).
- The secrets of Twin Peaks: the "Evil that comes from the woods" (M. Maculotti).
- The possible connections between "Twin Peaks" and Germanic mythology (R.Poleggi)
- “Altiplano”: the pangs of Pachamama and the Anima Mundi (M. Maculotti)
- The representation of the "Savage", between taboos and stereotypes: the case of "Cannibal Holocaust" (M. Maculotti).
- A Red Death in gray Venice (M. Maculotti).
- “The Walking Dead”: an attempt at esoteric deciphering (M. Di Stefano).
- Hieronymus Bosch and the drôleries (L. Pennacchi).
- Devilman: the myth (L. Pennacchi).
- In the Twilight Zone (M. Maculotti).
- In the Realms of the Unreal with Henry Darger and the Vivian Girls (F. Cerofolini).
