The readership for Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos is and always has been diverse. To celebrate that diversity, and to understand and appreciate what Lovecraft and the Mythos mean to people of all kinds, Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has opened up to guests to give their own views, in their own words.
2025
2023
- On Barry Pain’s “An Exchange Of Souls” (1911) by Desmond Rhae Harris
- Samuel Loveman’s The Hermaphrodite: A Poem (1926): Societal Devaluing + Desire in the Face of Marginalization by Salem Void
- David H. Keller’s “The Feminine Metamorphosis” (1929): A Two-Dimensional Gender War by Ro Salarian
- Seabury Quinn’s “Strange Interval” (1936): Gender, Gender Every Where…? by Mitch Lopes da Silva
- Must I Wear This Corpse For You?: H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep” (1937) by Joe Koch
- Seabury Quinn’s “Lynne Foster is Dead!” (1938): A Mistaken Gender Identity by Sophie Litherland
- That Which Engenders Fear: Jacques Janus’s “Celui qui suscitait l’effroi…” (1958) by Leonid West
- Robert E. Howard’s “Sword Woman” (1975): A Refusal of Roles by Sapphire Lazuli
2022
- An Asian Writer Looks At Lovecraft by Nicole Ortega
- An Australian Woman Looks At Lovecraft by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer
- A Brazilian Looks At Lovecraft by Davi Braid
- A Disability Scholar Looks At Lovecraft by Farah Rose Smith
- A Jewish Deadhead Looks At Lovecraft by M. I. Black
- A Jewish Neurodivergent Looks At Lovecraft by Matthew Kirshenblatt
- A Jewish Poet Looks At Lovecraft by Norman Finkelstein
- A Polio Survivor Looks At Lovecraft by Connie Todd Lila
- A Serbian Looks At Lovecraft by Dejan Ognjanović
- A Survivor Looks At Lovecraft by James Harvey
- A Transmasculine Horror Writer Looks At Lovecraft by Joe Koch
- A Trans Woman Looks At Lovecraft by Sophie Litherland