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 Lovecraftian Utopias............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. Navroth Plus Reviews and Briefly Noted