Lovecraft Studies

Zine
Title:	Lovecraft Studies
Publisher:	Necronomicon Press
Editor(s):	S.T. Joshi
Date(s):	1979-2005
Frequency:	twice a year
Medium:	print
Fandom:	H.P. Lovecraft
Language:	English
External Links:	issue list at www.hplovecraft.com
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Lovecraft Studies was a zine published by S.T. Joshi and dedicated to studying the life and writings of H.P. Lovecraft. It was founded with the purpose "to offer a forum for serious study of Lovecraft’s work". Published twice a year, in spring and fall, it ran from 1979 to 2005 for 45 issues.

All issues but one were published by Necronomicon Press.

S.T. Joshi wrote about the history of the fanzine in his book The Recognition of H.P. Lovecraft:

The autumn before the publication of the Four Decades of Criticism, Necronomicon Press published the first issue of Lovecraft Studies. Marc A. Michaud and I had lamented the increasing difficulty of getting the growing amount of Lovecraft criticism and scholarship published in such venues as Nyctalops or Whispers, which were either becoming more and more irregular in their issuance or veering away from criticism toward original fiction. Moreover, we felt that a journal that embodied a high level of scholarly rigour was now needed. At first we attempted to negotiate with an official at Brown University for university sponsorship of the journal, but our talks came to nothing; we were, in any case, doubtful that Brown would entrust the editing of such a journal to a pair of undergraduates. It made eminent sense to publish it through Necronomicon Press, as this publisher had already become well established as the leading small press for Lovecraftiana.

One of the things we prided ourselves on was that, in the nearly thirty years of the magazine’s run, we managed to stick to a regular schedule, coming out in spring and fall with content that averaged about 20,000 words per issue and included articles, reviews, and rare works by Lovecraft. There was a brief hiatus between issue nos. 7 (Fall 1982) and 8 (Spring 1984), as personal difficulties by Michaud caused the press to go largely into abeyance (indeed, that Spring 1984 issue was guided through the press by Jason C. Eckhardt, whose covers graced every single issue of the journal); but thereafter, we kept up a regular pace until the early 2000s.

Issue 1

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Lovecraft Studies #1 was published in the fall of 1979. It had 48 pages.

• Editorial by S. T. Joshi [editorial] (1–2)
• Parallel Passages in “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches” and “The Picture in the House” by Peter Cannon [essay] (3–6)
• Autobiography in Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi [essay] (7–19)
• Preface to White Fire by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (20–26)
• A Style Sheet for Lovecraftian Studies by S. T. Joshi [essay] (27–29)
• Reviews [review] (30–46)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft: His Life, His Work by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.; reviewed by J. Vernon Shea (30–33)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft in “The Eyrie” edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud; reviewed by William Fulwiler (33–37)
  • Review of Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood by Jack Sullivan; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (37–40)
  • Review of Uncollected Prose and Poetry by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson (40–46)
• Contributors [essay] (46)

Issue 2

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Lovecraft Studies #2 was published in the spring of 1980. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Reflections on “The Outsider” by William Fulwiler [essay] (3–4)
• Humour Beneath Horror: Some Sources for “The Dunwich Horror” and “The Whisperer in Darkness” by Donald R. Burleson [essay] (5–15)
• Contributors [essay] (15)
• Introduction to Hoag’s Poetical Works by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (16–20)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (20)
• Sources for the Chronology of Lovecraft’s Fiction by S. T. Joshi [essay] (21–29)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (29)
• Reviews [review] (30–39)
  • Review of Selected Letters V: 1934–1937 by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by August Derleth and James Turner; reviewed by Paul Buhle (30–34)
  • Review of Lovecraft’s Providence & Adjacent Parts by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr.; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson (34–36)
  • Review of Lovecraft’s Library: A Catalogue by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud; reviewed by R. Boerem (36–39)

Issue 3

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Lovecraft Studies #3 was published in the fall of 1980. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Some Notes on “The Shadow over Innsmouth” by T. G. L. Cockcroft [essay] (3–4)
• Charon—in Reverse; or, H.P. Lovecraft versus the “Realists” of Fantasy by Matthew H. Onderdonk [essay] (5–10)
• Extracts from the letters to G.W. Macauley by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (11–16)
• “Reality” and Knowledge: Some Notes on the Aesthetic Thought of H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi [essay] (17–27)
• Reviews [review] (28–38)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson (28–34)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent by Barton L. St. Armand; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (35–38)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (39)
• Contributors [essay] (40)

Issue 4

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Lovecraft Studies #4 was published in the spring of 1981. It had 44 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• The Mythic Hero Archetype in “The Dunwich Horror” by Donald R. Burleson [essay] (3–9)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (9)
• The City in H.P. Lovecraft’s Work by Gilles Menegaldo; translated by S. T. Joshi [essay] (10–19)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (19)
• The Dignity of Journalism by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (20–21)
• Xenophobia in the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft (Part I) by Barry L. Bender [essay] (22–38)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (38)
• Reviews [review] (39–43)
  • Review of Uncollected Prose and Poetry II by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud; reviewed by Edward S. Lauterbach (39–43)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (43)
• Contributors [essay] (44)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (44)

Issue 5

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Lovecraft Studies #5 was published in the fall of 1981. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft by Peter Cannon [essay] (3–9)
• Index to Volume I of Lovecraft Studies [essay] (9, 28, 32, 39)
• Xenophobia in the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft (Part II) by Barry L. Bender [essay] (10–26)
• Editorial Postscript by S. T. Joshi [editorial] (27–28)
• The Movie of Erich Zann and Others by John Strysik [essay] (29–32)
• Reviews [review] (33–39)
  • Review of Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide edited by Marshall Tymn; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (33–36)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by R. Boerem (36–39)
• Contributors [essay] (40)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (40)

Issue 6

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Lovecraft Studies #6 was published in the spring of 1982. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Higher Criticism and the Necronomicon by Robert M. Price [essay] (3–13)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (13)
• “The Music of Erich Zann” as Fugue by Donald R. Burleson [essay] (14–17)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (17)
• Textual Problems in Lovecraft: A Preliminary Survey by S. T. Joshi [essay] (18–32)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (32)
• Reviews [review] (33–39)
  • Review of Men of Dunwich: The Story of a Vanished Town by Rowland Parker; reviewed by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. (33–35)
  • Review of The Necronomicon: The Book of Dead Names edited by George Hay; reviewed by Robert M. Price (36–37)
  • Review of The Tomb and Other Tales (etc.) by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (38–39)
• Contributors [essay] (40)

Issue 7

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Lovecraft Studies #7 was published in the fall of 1982. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• The Old Man and the Sea: The Ocean and Life as Viewed by H.P. Lovecraft by Ralph E. Vaughan [essay] (3–7)
• The Lord of R’lyeh by Matthew H. Onderdonk [essay] (8–17)
• The Lovecraft-Derleth Connection by Robert M. Price [essay] (18–23)
• Editorial Postscript by S. T. Joshi [editorial] (23–24, 7)
• Lovecraft and the Mainstream Literature of His Day by Peter Cannon [essay] (25–29)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (29)
• Reviews [review] (30–39)
  • Review of Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium, Inc.; reviewed by Greg Costikyan (30–32)
  • Review of As It Is Written by Clark Ashton Smith; introduction by Will Murray; afterword by Donald Sidney-Fryer; illustrated by R. J. Krupowicz; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (32–34)
  • Review of Danse Macabre by Stephen King; reviewed by Sam Gafford (34–35)
  • Review of Reader’s Guide to H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson (36–39)
  • Postscript by S. T. Joshi [essay] (39)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (39)
• Contributors [essay] (40)

Issue 8

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Lovecraft Studies #8 was published in the spring of 1984. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover
• Demythologizing Cthulhu by Robert M. Price [essay] (3–9, 24)
• The Dunwich Chimera and Others: Correlating the Cthulhu Mythos by Will Murray [essay] (10–24)
• Cthulhu’s Scald: Lovecraft and the Nordic Tradition by Jason C. Eckhardt [essay] (25–29)
• Contributors [essay] (29)
• More Chain Lightning by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (30–31, 36)
• Lovecraft in the Foreign Press, 1971–1982 by S. T. Joshi [essay] (32–36)
• Reviews [review] (37–40, 36)
  • Review of The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by David E. Schultz (37–39)
  • Review of Uncollected Prose and Poetry 3 by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud; reviewed by Peter Cannon (39–40, 36)

Issue 9

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Lovecraft Studies #9 was published in the fall of 1984. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• H.P. Lovecraft: Consummate Prose Stylist by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (43–51)
• On the Natures of Nug and Yeb by Will Murray [essay] (52–59)
• Yin and Yang and Franz and Howard by John Strysik [essay] (60–61, 71)
• The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part I) by S. T. Joshi [essay] (62–71)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (71)
• Notes to “The Challenge from Beyond” by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (72–73)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (73)
• Review [review] (74–79)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study by Donald R. Burleson; reviewed by Robert M. Price (74–76)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study by Donald R. Burleson; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (77–79)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (79–80)
• Contributors [essay] (80)

Issue 10

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Lovecraft Studies #10 was published in the spring of 1985. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by Jason [illustration] (front cover)
• Notes on the Prose Realism of H.P. Lovecraft by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (3–12)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (12)
• Aleister Crowley and H.P. Lovecraft: The Occult Connection by Barry Leon Bender [essay] (13–17)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (17)
• The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part II) by S. T. Joshi [essay] (18–28)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (28)
• Within the Gates by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (29–30)
• Zen and the Art of Lovecraft by Donald R. Burleson [essay] (31–35)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (35)
• Reviews [review] (36–40)
  • Review of Juvenilia: 1895–1905 by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Robert M. Price (36)
  • Review of Pulptime by P. H. Cannon; reviewed by Will Murray (37)
  • Review of The Dunwich Horror and Others by H. P. Lovecraft; selected by August Derleth; texts edited by S. T. Joshi; introduction by Robert Bloch; reviewed by David E. Schultz (38–40)

Issue 11

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Lovecraft Studies #11 was published in the fall of 1985. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by Jason [illustration] (front cover)
• The Revision Mythos by Robert M. Price [essay] (43–50)
• A Note on Lovecraft and Rupert Brooke by Donald R. Burleson [essay] (51–53)
• The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part III) by S. T. Joshi [essay] (54–65)
• Dagon in Puritan Massachusetts by Will Murray [essay] (66–70)
• Instructions in Case of Decease by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (71–73)
• Reviews [review] (74–80)
  • Review of The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft by Sonia H. Davis; reviewed by Peter Cannon (74–75)
  • Review of Lovecraft’s Book by Richard A. Lupoff; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (75–76)
  • Review of Autobiographical Memoir by Frank Belknap Long; afterword by Peter Cannon; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson (76–77)
  • Review of In Defence of Dagon by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (77–80
• Briefly Noted [essay] (80)

Issue 12

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Lovecraft Studies #12 was published in the spring of 1986. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Lovecraft’s Concept of “Background” by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (3–12)
• Some Repetitions on the Times by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (13–25)
• An Uncompromising Look at the Cthulhu Mythos by Will Murray [essay] (26–31)
• Disbelievers Ever by R. W. Sherman [essay] (32–33
• Briefly Noted [essay] (33)
• Reviews [review] (34–37)
  • Review of At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels by H. P. Lovecraft; selected by August Derleth; texts edited by S. T. Joshi; introduction by James Turner; reviewed by David E. Schultz (34–36)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement 1980–1984 by S. T. Joshi and L. D. Blackmore; reviewed by Dabney Hoskins (Peter H. Cannon) (36–37)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (37)
• Letters [letter] (38–39)
  • Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (38)
  • Letter by David F. Godwin (38–39)

Issue 13

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Lovecraft Studies #13 was published in the fall of 1986. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Who Needs the “Cthulhu Mythos”? by David E. Schultz [essay] (43–53)
• In Search of Arkham Country by Will Murray [essay] (54–67)
• Correspondence between R.H. Barlow and Wilson Shepherd of Oakman, Alabama—Sept.–Nov. 1932 by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (68–71)
• Lovecraft and Chiasmus, Chiasmus and Lovecraft by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (72–75, 80)
• Reviews [review] (76–80)
  • Review of Commonplace Book by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by David E. Schultz; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (76–78)
  • Review of Uncollected Letters by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Robert M. Price (79–80)

Issue 14

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Lovecraft Studies #14 was published in the spring of 1987. It had 44 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• What Is the Cthulhu Mythos? A Panel Discussion by Donald R. Burleson, S. T. Joshi, Will Murray, Robert M. Price, and David E. Schultz [essay] (3–30)
• Behind the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic in 1930 by Jason C. Eckhardt [essay] (31–38)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (38)
• Reviews [review] (39–44)
  • Review of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H. P. Lovecraft; selected by August Derleth; texts edited by S. T. Joshi; introduction by T. E. D. Klein; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (39–41)
  • Review of Lovecraft’s Providence and Adjacent Parts by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr.; reviewed by Will Murray (42)
  • Review of The Chronology out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (42–44)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (44)

Issue 15

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Lovecraft Studies #15 was published in the fall of 1987. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Mythos Names and How to Say Them by Robert M. Price [essay] (47–53)
• On the Emergence of “Cthulhu” by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (54–58)
• At Lovecraft’s Grave by Brett Rutherford [poetry] (59–64)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (64)
• “The Terrible Old Man”: A Deconstruction by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (65–68)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (68)
• Arkham and Kingsport by Peter Cannon [essay] (69–76, 53)
• A Probable Source for the Drinking Song from “The Tomb” by Will Murray [essay] (77–80)
• Reviews [review] (81–84, 64)
  • Review of Medusa and Other Poems by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (81–83)
  • Review of Letters to H.P. Lovecraft by Clark Ashton Smith; edited by Steve Behrends; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (83–84, 64)

Reactions and Reviews

Although readers of this magazine need no inducement to pick up a copy of Lovecraft Studies, many will find Peter Cannon's "Arkham and Kingsport" a good reason for acquiring #15. An excerpt from Cannon's forthcoming book on Lovecraft, the essay focuses on stories Lovecraft wrote between 1920 and 1923 when he first began to convert his beloved New England into the Miskatonic region. By coincidence. Cannon's essay is bracketed by Steve Mariconda's "On the Emergence of Cthulhu." This search for the sources of "The Call of Cthulhu" begins with the vivid 1920 dream in which Lovecraft plays the role assumed later by the artist Wilcox, ends with his sitting down to write the story in 1926, and considers in between the influence the Brooklyn incarceration, the Kalems, an earthquake and readings of Machen and de Maupassant all may have had on the story's development.

Rounding out the issue are Will Murray's discovery of "A Probable Source for the Drinking Song from 'The Tomb'" in a song by Puritan whipping boy Thomas "Merry Mount" Morton, and "Mythos Names and How to Say Them," in which Bob Price sticks his neck out to provocatively theorize that Dagon is not an entity unto himself, but only another, "safer" name for Cthulhu. The idea of giving abominable gods sanitary names for the purpose of public worship has its precedents, and Price notes that in Lovecraft's fiction we see Cthulhu, but only hear of the worship of Dagon. This potentially controversial paragraph-long observation calls for fuller development.

Don Burleson is also on hand with his deconstruction of "The Terrible Old Man," but be prepared to strap on your "new criticism" hip-waders. Burleson offers some interesting insights on the conflict between perceptions, beliefs and actions of characters in the story, but the thick jargon permeating the essay makes it as much a study of his critical methodology as of Lovecraft's brief tale.

Issue 16

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Lovecraft Studies #16 was published in the spring of 1988. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Randolph Carter: An Anti-Hero’s Quest (Part 1) by Norman Gayford [essay] (3–11)
• Two Biblical Curiosities in Lovecraft by Robert M. Price [essay] (12–13, 18)
• Lovecraft and the World as Cryptogram by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (14–18)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (18)
• Commercial Blurbs by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (19–24)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (24)
• A Guide to the Lovecraft Fiction Manuscripts at the John Hay Library (Part 1) by S. T. Joshi [essay] (25–33)
• Did Lovecraft Revise “The Forbidden Room”? by Will Murray [essay] (34–35, 11)
• Reviews [review] (36–40)
  • Review of Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic by Maurice Lévy; translated by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (36–38)
  • Review of Discovering H.P. Lovecraft edited by Darrell Schweitzer; reviewed by Peter Cannon (38–39)
  • Review of The Lurking Horror by Dave Lebling; reviewed by Marc Michaud and Susan Michaud (39–40)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (40)

Issue 17

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Lovecraft Studies #17 was published in the fall of 1988. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Comments from the Publisher by Marc A. Michaud [editorial] (3–4)
• Randolph Carter: An Anti-Hero’s Quest (Part 2) by Norman Gayford [essay] (5–13)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (13)
• A Guide to the Lovecraft Fiction Manuscripts at the John Hay Library (Part 2) by S. T. Joshi [essay] (14–20)
• The Hands of H.P. Lovecraft by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (21–25)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (25)
• The Masks of Nothing: Notes toward a Possible Reading of Lovecraft by Eduardo Haro Ibars; translated by Marie-Claire Cebrián [essay] (26–29)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (29)
• Facts in the Case of “The Disinterment” by Will Murray [essay] (30–33)
• Notes on Lovecraft’s “The Bells”: A Carillon by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (34–35)
• Review [review] (36)
  • Review of Insidious Garden: A Look at Horror Fiction by Edward W. O’Brien, Jr.; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (36)

Issue 18

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Lovecraft Studies #18 was published in the spring of 1989. It had 32 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Lovecraft and James Joyce by Norman Gayford [essay] (3–9)
• Lists and Notes by H.P. Lovecraft: Basic Books for a Weird Library by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (9)
• Robert E. Howard and the Cthulhu Mythos by Robert M. Price [essay] (10–13, 29)
• Swan Songs: Lovecraft and Yeats by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (14–17)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (17)
• The Last of H.P. Lovecraft by J. B. Michel [essay] (18–19)
• Reviews [review] (20–29)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (20–21)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. (22)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon; reviewed by David E. Schultz (23–24)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon; reviewed by Frank Belknap Long (24)
  • In Defense of TUSAS 549 by Peter Cannon [essay] (25–27)
  • Review of The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; introduction by August Derleth; reviewed by Robert M. Price (27–28)
  • Review of The Forbidden Room by Duane W. Rimel; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (28)
  • Review of Within the Circle: In Memoriam: Franklin Lee Baldwin by Josephine Richardson et al.; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (28–29)
• Correspondence [letter] (30–32)
  • Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (30–31)
  • Letter by Patrick Miller (31–32)
  • Letter by Steve Behrends, Ph. D. (32)
• Lists and Notes by H.P. Lovecraft: Notes on Clothing Stores by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (32)

Issue 19/20

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Lovecraft Studies #19/20 was published in the fall of 1989. It had 76 pages.

• Cover Art by J. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
• Editorial by S. T. Joshi [editorial] (3–4)
• “Retrograde Anticipation”: Primitivism and Occultism in the French Response to Lovecraft 1953–1957 by Michel Meurger; translated by S. T. Joshi [essay] (5–19)
• The Subversion of Sense in “The Colour out of Space” by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (20–22)
• H.P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Movie by Darrell Schweitzer [essay] (23–25, 27)
• A Plea for Lovecraft by W. Paul Cook [essay] (26–27)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (27)
• Lovecraft and Romanticism by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (28–31)
• The Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston: Lovecraft’s Last Dilettante by Peter Cannon [essay] (32, 39)
• “The Green Meadow” and “The Willows”: Lovecraft, Blackwood, and a Peculiar Coincidence by Stefan Dziemianowicz [essay] (33–39)
• Who Was the Real Charles Dexter Ward? by M. Eileen McNamara and S. T. Joshi [essay] (40–41, 48)
• Biographical Writing on H.P. Lovecraft: A Review of the Literature by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. [essay] (42–48)
• The Influence of Two Dunsany Plays by Norm Gayford [essay] (49–55, 62)
• The “Cthulhu Mythos”: Between Horror and Science Fiction by Thekla Zachrau; translated by L. G. Boba and S. T. Joshi [essay] (56–62)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (62)
• What of H.P. Lovecraft? or, A commentary upon J.B. Michel by Autolycus [essay] (63–64)
• In Search of Arkham Country Revisited by Will Murray [essay] (65–69)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (69)
• Reviews [review] (70–71)
  • Review of Tales of the Lovecraft Collectors by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (70–71)
  • Review of Selected Papers on Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Peter Cannon (71)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (71)
• Correspondence [letter] (72–75)
  • Letter by Donald R. Burleson (72)
  • Letter by Patrick Miller (73)
  • Letter by Jason C. Eckhardt (73–74)
  • Letter by Mick Lyons (74–75)
• The H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference Announcement [essay] (76)

Issue 21

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Lovecraft Studies #21 was published in the spring of 1990. It had 44 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Infratextual Structures in Poe, Bierce, and Lovecraft by Andrew Wheeler [essay] (3–23)
• Lovecraft’s Ethical Philosophy by S. T. Joshi [essay] (24–37, 39)
• The Extinction of Mankind in the Prose Poem “Memory” by Lance Arney [essay] (38–39)
• On Lovecraft’s “Nemesis” by Donald R. Burleson [essay] (40–42)
• Review [review] (43–44, 42)
  • Review of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft and divers hands; edited by James Turner; illustrations by Jeffrey K. Potter; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (43–44, 42)

Issue 22/23

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Lovecraft Studies #22/23 was published in the fall of 1990. It had 68 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Notes on the Cinematic Interpretations of the Works of H.P. Lovecraft by Wheeler Winston Dixon [essay] (3–9)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (9)
• On Lovecraft’s Fragment “Azathoth” by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (10–12, 23)
• Erich Zann and the Rue d’Auseil by Robert M. Price [essay] (13–14)
• “Pickman’s Model”: H.P. Lovecraft’s Model of Terror by James Anderson [essay] (15–21)
• The Outsider: A Woman? by Mollie L. Burleson [essay] (22–23)
• An Interview with Harry K. Brobst by Will Murray (24–42, 21)
• Six Views of Lovecraft [essay] (43)
  • Lovecraft’s Humankind: Orphans in the Cosmos by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (43–44)
  • H.P. Lovecraft: Literary Outsider by Peter Cannon [essay] (44–45)
  • H.P. Lovecraft by Les Daniels [essay] (45–46)
  • Lovecraft: Artist or Poseur? by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. [essay] (46–49)
  • Lovecraft and the “Big Issue” by S. T. Joshi [essay] (49–50)
  • Lovecraft the Pulp Writer by Will Murray [essay] (51–52)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (52)
• Reviews [review] (53–65)
  • Review of Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe by Donald R. Burleson; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (53–56)
  • Donald Burleson responds by Donald Burleson [essay] (56–57)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. (57–59)
  • S.T. Joshi responds by S. T. Joshi [essay] (59)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos by Robert M. Price; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (60–61)
  • Review of “Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft” and Other Essays by Peter Cannon; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (61–63)
  • Review of The Parents of Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (63)
  • Review of The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M.R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Douglas A. Anderson (63–65)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (65)
• Correspondence [letter] (66–68)
  • Letter by Roger Dobson (66)
  • Letter by William Neff (66–67)
  • Letter by T. E. D. Klein (68)
• Lists and Notes by H.P. Lovecraft: Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Verses by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (68)

Issue 24

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Lovecraft Studies #24 was published in the spring of 1991. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by Sam Gafford [illustration] (front cover)
• Lovecraft and the Burkean Sublime by Dale J. Nelson [essay] (2–5)
• Briefly Noted by Will Murray [essay] (5)
• “The Shadow over Innsmouth”: Lovecraft’s Melting Pot by Sam Gafford [essay] (6–13)
• Winfield Scott Lovecraft’s Final Illness by M. Eileen McNamara, M. D. [essay] (14)
• Medical Record of Winfield Scott Lovecraft annotated by M. Eileen McNamara, M. D. [essay] (15–17)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (17)
• Scansion Problems in Lovecraft’s “Mirage” by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (18–19, 21)
• The Last Vestige of the Derleth Mythos by Robert M. Price [essay] (20–21)
• Lovecraft on Human Knowledge: An Exchange by K. Setiya and S. T. Joshi [essay] (22–23, 34)
• “Expect Great Revelations”: Lovecraft Criticism in His Centennial Year by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (24–29)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (29)
• Reviews [review] (30–34)
  • Review of An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H.P. Lovecraft edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Lance Arney (30–31)
  • Review of Lovecraft’s Legacy edited by Robert E. Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (31–33)
  • Review of Favourite Haunts: A Journey thro’ H.P. Lovecraft’s Providence written and produced by Jon B. Cooke; reviewed by Kevin Patrickson (33–34)
• Correspondence [letter] (35–36)
  • Letter by Peter Cannon (35–36)
  • Letter by S. T. Joshi (36)

Issue 25

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Lovecraft Studies #25 was published in the fall of 1991. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by HPL [illustration] (front cover)
• Documents, Creatures, and History in H.P. Lovecraft by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (2–10)
• Who or What Was Iranon? by Brian Humphreys [essay] (10–13)
• Prismatic Heroes: The Colour out of Dunwich by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (13–18)
• Empiricism and the Limits of Knowledge in Lovecraft by K. Setiya [essay] (18–22)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (22)
• A Biblical Antecedent for “The Colour out of Space” by Robert M. Price [essay] (23–25)
• Behind the Mask of Nyarlathotep by Will Murray [essay] (25–29)
• Reviews [review] (30–36)
  • Review of The H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference: Proceedings edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Lance Arney (30–32)
  • Review of The Miskatonic: Lovecraft Centenary Edition by Dirk W. Mosig; reviewed by Ben P. Indick (32–34)
  • Review of In Search of Lovecraft by J. Vernon Shea; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. (34–35)
  • Review of At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft; illustrated by Fernando Duval; reviewed by Jason Eckhardt (35–36)
• The Unknown by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (36)

Issue 26

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Lovecraft Studies #26 was published in the spring of 1992. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• The Structural and Thematic Unity of Fungi from Yuggoth by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (2–14)
• Two Notes on Lovecraft by K. Setiya [essay] (2–14)
• Lovecraft and the Dark Grail by Ian Blake [essay] (16–18)
• Lovecraft’s “The Unknown”: A Sort of Runic Rhyme by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (19–21)
• The Roots of Horror in The Golden Bough by Hubert Van Calenbergh [essay] (21–23)
• Lovecraft’s Dreamworld Revisited by Giuseppe Lippi [essay] (23–25)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (25)
• Letter to Myrta Alice Little by H. P. Lovecraft (26–30)
• Reviews [review] (30–33)
  • Review of Re-Animator: Tales of Herbert West by H. P. Lovecraft; edited and with an introduction by Steven Philip Jones; reviewed by Sam Gafford (30)
  • Review of Re-Animator by Steven Philip Jones; illustrated by Christopher Jones; reviewed by Sam Gafford (30–31)
  • Review of Lovecraft in Full Color adapted by Steven Philip Jones; reviewed by Sam Gafford (31)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu by Terry Collins and Mark Ellis; art by Daryl Banks, Robert Lewis, Daryl Hutchinson, and Melissa Martin; reviewed by Sam Gafford (31–32)
  • Review of The Unnamed adapted by John Schneider; directed by Mark Peckham; reviewed by Les Daniels (32–33)
  • Review of An Index to the Fiction and Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (33)
• Correspondence [letter] (34)
  • Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (34)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (34)
• Index to Lovecraft Studies 1–25 [essay] (35–39)
• Irem is Found by Will Murray [essay] (40)
• Starry Wisdom Church To Be Saved by Marc A. Michaud [essay] (40)

Issue 27

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Lovecraft Studies #27 was published in the fall of 1992. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• From the Bygone Ashes: The Legacy of Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Michael A. Morrison and Stefan Dziemianowicz [essay] (2–9)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (9)
• “The Music of Erich Zann”: A Psychological Interpretation (or Two) by Carl Buchanan [essay] (10–13)
• The Cthulhu Mythos by Rafael Llopis; translated by Anne K. Scargill and Scott D. Briggs [essay] (13–21)
• Lovecraft and Gender by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (21–25)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (25)
• Lovecraft’s Semantics by Kieran Setiya [essay] (26–30)
• Plaster-All by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (30–31)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (31)
• Reviews [review] (32–36)
  • Review of Letters to Richard F. Searight by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (32–33)
  • Review of Decoded Mirrors: 3 Tales After Lovecraft by Steve Rasnic Tem; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. (33)
  • Review of The Innsmouth Heritage by Brian Stableford; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. (33–34)
  • Review of Call of Cthulhu by Sandy Peterson and Lynn Willis; reviewed by Franklin Hummel (34–35)
  • Review of The Resurrected directed by Dan O’Bannon; adapted by Brent V. Friedman; reviewed by Marc A. Michaud (35–36)
  • Review of The Thing on the Doorstep read by Jay Gregory; reviewed by Marc A. Michaud (36)
  • Review of Call of Cthulhu Miniatures reviewed by Marc A. Michaud (36)

Issue 28

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Lovecraft Studies #28 was published in the spring of 1993. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Walkers in the City: George Willard Kirk and Howard Phillips Lovecraft in New York City, 1924–1926 by Mara Kirk Hart [essay] (2–17)
• On Lovecraft’s “The Ancient Track” by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (17–20)
• Notes on “Alias Peter Marchall” by A.F. Lorenz by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (20–22)
• A Gothic Approach to Lovecraft’s Sense of Outsideness by Kirk Sigurdson [essay] (22–34)
• After a Decade and the Kalem Club by Rheinhart Kleiner [essay] (34–35)
• The Last Days of H.P. Lovecraft: Four Documents [essay] (36)

Issue 29

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Lovecraft Studies #29 was published in the fall of 1993. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• H.P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (2–12)
• Some Strange New England Mortuary Practices: Lovecraft Was Right by Faye Ringel Hazel [essay] (13–18)
• “The Terrible Old Man”: A Myth of the Devouring Father by Carl Buchanan [essay] (19–31)
• Reviews [review] (31–36, 12)
  • Review of Letters to Robert Bloch by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Ben P. Indick (31–33)
  • Review of Letters to Robert Bloch: Supplement by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Ben P. Indick (31–33)
  • Review of Some of the Descendants of Asaph Phillips and Esther Whipple of Foster, Rhode Island by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (33)
  • Review of Early Historical Accounts of Foster, Rhode Island by Charles C. Beaman and Casey B. Tyler; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (33)
  • Review of Night Gaunts: An Entertainment Based on the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft by Brett Rutherford; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (33–34)
  • Review of Ex Libris Miskatonici: A Catalogue of Selected Items from the Special Collections in the Miskatonic University Library by Joan C. Stanley; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (34–35)
  • Review of Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos edited by Robert M. Price; reviewed by David E. Schultz (35–36, 12)

Issue 30

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Lovecraft Studies #30 was published in the spring of 1994. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Maker of Monsters, Maker of Gods by Brett Rutherford [poetry] (2)
• In Memoriam: Frank Belknap Long by Ben P. Indick [essay] (3–4)
• Transgression, Spheres of Influence, and the Use of the Utterly Other in Lovecraft by Richard E. Dansky [essay] (5–14)
• “The Night Ocean” and the Subtleties of Cosmicism by Brian Humphreys [essay] (14–21)
• Metonyms of Alterity: A Semiotic Interpretation of Fungi from Yuggoth by Dan Clore [essay] (21–32)
• Reviews [review] (32–35)
  • Review of Scream for Jeeves: A Parody by P. H. Cannon; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (32–33)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror edited by Stephen Jones and Dave Carson; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (33–34)
  • Review of The Hastur Cycle edited by Robert M. Price; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (34–35)
  • Review of Mysteries of the Worm by Robert Bloch; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (34–35)
• Correspondence [letter] (35–36)
  • Letter by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. (35–36)
  • Letter by Brett Rutherford (36)

Issue 31

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Lovecraft Studies #31 was published in the fall of 1994. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Dr. Margaret Murray and H.P. Lovecraft: The Witch-Cult in New England by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (2–10)
• Mirror, Mirror: Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and Lovecraft’s “The Outsider” by Mollie L. Burleson [essay] (10–12)
• “The Outsider” as an Homage to Poe by Carl Buchanan [essay] (12–14)
• Lovecraft and “Ligeia” by Robert M. Price [essay] (15–17)
• Symbolism of Style in “The Strange High House in the Mist” by Cecelia Drewer [essay] (17–21)
• Lovecraft and Adjectivitis: A Deconstructionist View by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (22–24)
• Lovecraft’s Aesthetic Development: From Classicism to Decadence by S. T. Joshi [essay] (24–34)
• Review [review] (34–36)
  • Review of Crawling Chaos: Selected Works by H. P. Lovecraft; introduction by Colin Wilson; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (34–35)
  • Review of Cthulhu’s Heirs: Tales of the Mythos for the New Millennium edited by Thomas M. K. Stratman; reviewed by S. T. Joshi (35–36)

Issue 32

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Lovecraft Studies #32 was published in the spring of 1995. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• “The Picture in the House”: Images of Complicity by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (2–8)
• About “The Whisperer in Darkness” by Darrell Schweitzer [essay] (8–11)
• Briefly Noted [essay] (11)
• Tightening the Coil: The Revision of “The Whisperer in Darkness” by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (12–17)
• “The Rats in the Walls”: A Study in Pessimism by Paul Montelone [essay] (18–26)
• Lovecraft: Textual Keys by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (27–30)
• Reviews [review] (30–36)
  • Review of H.P. Lovecraft in the Argosy: Collected Correspondence from the Munsey Magazines by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Ben P. Indick (30–31)
  • Review of Miscellaneous Writings by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by David E. Schultz (31–34)
  • Review of The Shub-Niggurath Cycle edited by Robert M. Price; reviewed by Marc A. Michaud (34–35)
  • Review of Encyclopedia Cthulhiana by Daniel Harms; reviewed by Marc A. Michaud (35)
  • Review of The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft edited by D. M. Mitchell; reviewed by Marc A. Michaud (35)
  • Review of Shadows Over Innsmouth edited by Stephen Jones; reviewed by Marc A. Michaud (35–36)

Issue 33

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Lovecraft Studies #33 was published in the fall of 1995. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• “Ex Oblivione”: The Contemplative Lovecraft by Paul Montelone [essay] (2–14)
• The Thing: On the Doorstep by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (14–18)
• Where Was Foxfield? by Will Murray [essay] (18–23)
• The Genesis of “The Shadow out of Time” by S. T. Joshi [essay] (24–29)
• On “The Call of Cthulhu” by Stefan Dziemianowicz [essay] (30–35)
• Reviews [review] (36)
  • Review of Résumé with Monsters by William Browning Spencer; reviewed by Peter Cannon (36)
  • Review of Non Compost Mentis by Darrell Schweitzer; reviewed by Peter Cannon (36)

Issue 34

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Lovecraft Studies #34 was published in the spring of 1996. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• On At the Mountains of Madness: A Panel Discussion by Peter Cannon, Jason C. Eckhardt, Steven J. Mariconda, and Hubert Van Calenbergh [essay] (2–10)
• Overdetermination and Enigma in Alhazred’s Cryptic Couplet by Dan Clore [essay] (11–13)
• “The Outsider,” the Terminal Climax, and Other Conclusions by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (13–24)
• A Textual Oddity in “The Quest of Iranon” by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (24–26)
• The Vanity of Existence in “The Shadow out of Time” by Paul Montelone [essay] (27–35)
• Lovecraft in Brooklyn by Rheinhart Kleiner [essay] (35–36)

Issue 35

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Lovecraft Studies #35 was published in the fall of 1996. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Two Early Readings of Lovecraft and Their Consequences by Esther Rochon [essay] (1–8)
• The Inner Significance of “The Outsider” by Paul Montelone [essay] (9–21)
• Death Takes a Dive: Poe’s “The City in the Sea” and Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” by Michael Garrett [essay] (22–24)
• Lovecraft and Keats Confront the “Awful Rainbow” (part I) by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (24–36, 8)

Issue 36

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Lovecraft Studies #36 was published in the spring of 1997. It had 40 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• “The White Ship”: A Schopenhauerian Odyssey by Paul Montelone [essay] (2–14)
• In Search of the Dread Ancestor: M.R. James’ “Count Magnus” and Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Richard Ward [essay] (14–17)
• The Revised Adolphe Danziger de Castro by Chris Powell [essay] (18–25)
• Lovecraft and Keats Confront the “Awful Rainbow” (part II) by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (26–39)
• A Talk with H.P. Lovecraft by Howard Wolf [essay] (39–40)

Issue 37

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Lovecraft Studies #37 was published in the fall of 1997. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• The World as Azathoth—and Nothing Besides by Paul Montelone [essay] (1–4)
• The Outsider, the Autodidact, and Other Professions (part I) by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (4–15)
• Lovecraft and the Whitman Memoir by John Kipling Hitz [essay] (15–17)
• Lovecraft’s “He” by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. [essay] (17–25)
• Lovecraft and Interstitiality by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (25–34)
• Reviews [review] (34–37)
  • Review of Susan’s Obituary by Franklin Chase Clark; reviewed by Ben P. Indick (34–35)
  • Review of The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft; edited and with an introduction by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Scott David Briggs (35–37)

Issue 38

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Lovecraft Studies #38 was published in the spring of 1998. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Lovecraft and Buddhism: Some Similarities by Esther Rochon [essay] (2–16)
• A Note on Metaphor vs. Metonymy in “The Dunwich Horror” by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (16–17)
• The Outsider, the Autodidact, and Other Professions (part II) by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (18–33)
• H.P. Lovecraft and Charles Dickens: The Rats in Their Walls by Mollie L. Burleson [essay] (34–35)
• Review [review] (36)
  • Review of The Young Guy from Fuggoth: Eldritch Limericks & Poems by M. M. Moamrath; edited by Joseph F. Pumilia and Bill Wallace; reviewed by Peter Cannon (36)
  • Review of Poetica Dementia by Darrell Schweitzer; reviewed by Peter Cannon (36)

Issue 39

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Lovecraft Studies #39 was published in the summer of 1998. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Arkham Country: In Rescue of the Lost Searchers by Robert D. Marten [essay] (1–20)
• A Warning to the World: The Deliberative Argument of At the Mountains of Madness by David A. Oakes [essay] (21–25)
• The Subway and the Shoggoth (part I) by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (25–34)
• Sound Symbolism in Lovecraftian Neocognomina by Dan Clore [essay] (34–36)

Issue 40

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Lovecraft Studies #40 was published in the fall of 1998. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Some Aspects of Narration in Lovecraft by Dan Clore [essay] (2–11)
• “The Strange High House in the Mist”: Glowing Eyes and Prohibition of the Impossible by Nicholaus Clements [essay] (11–15)
• The Subway and the Shoggoth (Part II) by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (16–28)
• Some Notes on “The Rats in the Walls” by John Kipling Hitz [essay] (29–33)
• This is the Way the World Ends: Modernism in “The Hollow Men” and Fungi from Yuggoth by David A. Oakes [essay] (33–36, 28)

Issue 41

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Lovecraft Studies #41 was published in the spring of 1999. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Pictures at an Exhibition by Scott Connors [essay] (2–9)
• A Cosmos of One’s Own: Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Hubert Lampo; translated by Hubert Van Calenbergh [essay] (9–22)
• Lovecraft and the Early Leiber by Nicholaus Clements [essay] (23–24)
• Naming the Nameless: Lovecraft’s Grammatology by John P. Langan [essay] (25–30)
• Review [review] (30–33)
  • Review of Lovecraft Remembered edited by Peter Cannon; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda (30–33)
• Index to Lovecraft Studies 26–40 [essay] (33–36)

Issue 42-43

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Lovecraft Studies #42-43 was published in the autumn of 2001. It had 76 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• Editorial by S. T. Joshi [editorial] (2)
• The Book by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (3–4)
• The Book of “The Book” by Michael Cisco [essay] (4–20)
• H.P. Lovecraft: Reluctant American Modernist by Steven J. Mariconda [essay] (20–32)
• H.P. Lovecraft in Florida by Stephen J. Jordan [essay] (32–45)
• Antique Dreams: Marblehead and Lovecraft’s Kingsport by Donovan K. Loucks [essay] (45–52)
• A Note on “The Book” by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (52–54)
• The Problem with Solving: Implications for Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft Narrators by Deborah D’Agati [essay] (54–60)
• The Lurker at the Threshold of Interpretation: Hoax Necronomicons and Paratextual Noise by Dan Clore [essay] (61–69)
• The Mirror in the House: Looking at the Horror of Looking at the Horror by P. S. Owens [essay] (70–74)
• Review [review] (74–76)
  • Review of Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft directed and written by Raymond Saint-Jean; produced by Michel Ouellette; reviewed by Scott Connors (74–76)

Issue 44

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Lovecraft Studies #44 was published in 2004. It had 120 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• A Layman Looks at the Government by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (3–22)
• The Devil, the Terror, and the Horror: The Whateley Twins’ Further Debts to Folklore and Fiction by Marc A. Beherec [essay] (23–25)
• The Unbroken Chain by Irvin S. Cobb [fiction] (26–41)
• The Pickman Models by Robert D. Marten [essay] (42–80)
• “Hey, Yew, Why Don’t Ye Say Somethin’?” Lovecraft’s Dramatic Monologues by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (81–106)
• Necronomicon: A Note by Alexandre Bouchard and Louis-Pierre Smith Lacroix [essay] (107–112)
• Fred Chappell’s Cthulhu Appropriations: Dagon by Casey Clabough [essay] (113–118)
• Reviews [review] (119–120)
  • Review of A Dreamer and a Visionary: H. P. Lovecraft in His Time by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. (119–120)

Issue 45

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Lovecraft Studies #45 was published in the spring of 2005. It had 36 pages.

• Cover Art by JCE [illustration] (front cover)
• “Dagon”: Shipwreck to Nowhere by Massimo Berruti [essay] (1–9)
• The Blasted Heath in “The Colour out of Space”: A Nightmare Theodicy by Robert H. Waugh [essay] (10–21)
• Spectre Loci: An Interpretation of “The Nameless City” by Michael Garrett [essay] (22–24)
• Metaphysics in “The Music of Erich Zann” by Henrik Harksen [essay] (25–32)
• The Shadow out of Berkeley Square by John Strysik [essay] (33–36)