The latest edition of The Lovecraft Annual includes the best new Lovecraftian scholarship. Table of Contents: Lovecraft and the Ray-Gun............T. R. Livesey; What Is "the Unnamable"? H. P. Lovecraft and the Problem of Evil............James Goho; Some Notes on the Topographical Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft............Phillip A. Ellis; The Theme of Distance in the Tales of H. P. Lovecraft............Lorenzo Mastropierro; Lovecraft's Avatars: Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Dagon, and LovecraftianUtopias............Brandon Reynolds; Self, Other, and the Evolution of Lovecraft's Treatment of Outsideness............Massimo Berruti; Some Notes on Lovecraft's "The Transition of Juan Romero"............Leigh Blackmore; "The Shadow out of Time" and Time-Defiance............Will Murray; Poems Not in The Ancient Track............H. P. Lovecraft; Lovecraft and the Polar Myth............John M. NavrothPlus Reviews and Briefly Noted