Blavatsky News 2.0: October 2025

The Blavatsky Occult Files #1

The Strange Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island

Active File - Case currently under investigation

The big three of pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales and the Lovecraft Circle most popular works seem to be the most-theosophically influenced ones:“The starting point of our examination of fictions dealing with ‘lost worlds’as cultural productions drawing on Theosophical ideas is the publication of Weird Tales, an American horror and fantasy pulp fiction magazine of the 1920s, which was the vehicle for distributing the works of Howard Philips (H. P.) Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. These were the three main contributors to Weird Tales evidencing Theosophical influences in their fiction”. (Garry W. Trompf and Lauren Bernauer “Producing lost civilisations: Theosophical concepts” in Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, BRILL, 2012, p. 113)

Case description – Surprising flourishing of interest in Lovecraft. Morning of the Magicians, Ritual Magic, Role Games, Film, Library of Congress, Philosophy, French Pleiade. As such there’s a considerable amount of study on the Theosophical side of Lovecraft, theology, cosmic hierachies

File Card 1 – Lovecraft’s discovery of Theosophical concepts was enthusiastic and inspirational. Atlantis Scott Eliott

File Card 2 – Lovecraft had already deeply assimilated the 19^th supernatural literature that had various connections and influences with Theosophy, and was familiar with occult traditions and it’s centuries of relations to literature, although he showed little knowledge of the Theosophical connection to supernatural literature in the 19^th century

File Card 3- Blavatsky herself penned some intriguing Occult Tales, published in magazines, gathered in Nightmare Tales

File Card 4 –Considerable presence of Theosophical concepts in the American pulp magazine field

File Card 5- Theosophy concepts per se

File Card 6- Case study- The Silver Key

File Card 7- Verdict: Occultism in Lovecraft Imagination and Rationality

https://deepcuts.blog/2020/12/02/the-book-of-dzyan-1888-by-helena-blavatsky/

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/lovecraft-theosophy-and-extraterrestrial-claims-for-the-book-of-dzyan

https://www.scribd.com/document/736075364/web-archive-org-HPL-and-HPB

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/exploring-hp-lovecraft-s-gothic-roots-1.3612929

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_Horror_in_Literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy_and_literature