Neale Monks has a new review of Robert H. Waugh’s The Monster In The Mirror: Looking For H.P. Lovecraft (2006) in the latest SF Crowsnest…

Waugh argues that Lovecraft was strongly coloured by the Baptist religion of his family and Waugh provides numerous examples of how this religious background comes through in his writing. For example, the sheer variety of Old Testament names given to the characters of his novels, such as Asenath and Zadok, can’t simply be ascribed to chance. At the very least, they demonstrate Lovecraft’s knowledge of scripture. Then there are the incidents in Lovecraft’s stories which seem to have Biblical parallels. ‘The Dunwich Horror’, for example, includes not just events, a virgin birth, but also entire sections of dialogue apparently inspired by scripture.

 
At The Dark Man today there’s also another book review, of Robert Weinberg’s The Weird Tales Story: Expanded and Enhanced (2021). I had the original of this pegged as an early fannish history, light on business history, and would probably have got hold of it when The Thing’s Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales finally comes down in price (or becomes an affordable ebook).

But now The Weird Tales Story has been substantially expanded, and seemingly has a lot more to say about both R.E. Howard and editor Farnsworth Wright…

the book also exudes an almost hagiographic devotion to Farnworth Wright’s tenure as editor.

Right, sounds good to me.