S. T. Joshi’s blog has updated….

“Our edition of Lovecraft memoirs, Ave atque Vale, is now available for pre-order from Necronomicon Press.”

$30 paperback and a 100-copy limited edition hardback for the collectors. Ave atque Vale: Reminiscences of H. P. Lovecraft is billed as… “each essay [annotated] thoroughly to explain obscure references and to correct errors” and thus the volume is a shelf companion to slip in beside the elegant 1998 hardback Lovecraft Remembered.

Ave atque Vale sports a fine cover photo, though the typography laid on top is excruciating. For such an important book I would have been happy to spend an hour fixing the yellow colour-cast, lightly colorising the photograph, and doing something more elegant with better type.

S.T. also mentions that he has been at work adding the Index to a forthcoming Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja volume, and that…

“we have the [Lovecraft] Letters to Family and Family Friends (1200 pp.!) ready to go”.

Wow… that’ll be ‘the aunts’ letters in print in full, at last! Great news. However, S.T. remarks that “ready to go” = “early 2019”, rather than publication before Christmas.