Well, who’d ‘a thunk it? The virus lockdown has turned a senior reporter at our local The Sentinel newspaper into a Tolkien and Lovecraft fan, and spurred by this reading he’s turned his attention to our local folklore. There’s hope for local journalism yet, it seems.

I wonder if he knows about Tolkien’s Stoke / Gawain-in-the-Moorlands local connections, that Stoke is also home to a leading scholar of Lovecraft’s life, and that there’s a handy new free annotated bibliography of all our local folklore?