Popping up on eBay, pictures of two portraits of Lovecraft from the fan publications of the 1970s.
The now-superseded Bibliotheca H. P. Lovecraft has this very fine portrait in stipple and line by B.J. Frost.
No sign of this on Archive.org yet, from which a better and bigger scan might be extracted. Who was B. J. Frost, I wonder? In 1976 he produced Book of the Werewolf for Sphere paperbacks. He went on to produce a series of overview books for the University of Wisconsin Press, The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature, and The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature. But I can’t find more about his art, other than that he once did a tribute portrait of Virgil Finlay.
The World of H.P. Lovecraft has a different but equally pleasing use of pen and ink, to devise a clever use of Lovecraft’s silhouette which combines it with “The Outsider”.
