Spanish blog Hijos de Cthulhu digs up a memoir by Javier Marias, remembering Juan Lopez-Morillas. Lopez-Morillas had lived in Lovecraft’s 66 College St. house after Lovecraft’s death. In translation…

A Spanish professor who lived in the city of Providence told me that, during his early years at Brown University, he had lived in what had been the home of the master of horror literature H.P. Lovecraft … When I asked if the teacher or his wife had ever noticed any strange presence in the middle of the night, he replied that luckily no creature of uncertain fishy descent or physique had ever appeared to them. But that there was a strange surliness in that house, a kind of forced silence that any sound revealed. As if the walls, accustomed for too long to Lovecraft’s taciturnity, were not willing to accept a raised voice or some crooning. And when they found out who had preceded them, within weeks of settling in, they had decided to give away the goldfish they had arrived with. Just in case.