New on Archive.org, a scan of The Armchair Detective for June 1976. Has a few items of interest…

* “Wicked Dreams: The World of Sheridan Le Fanu”

* “Edmund Wilson and the detective story”. The arch critic’s judgement on the best of the genre was just as dismal as on Lovecraft and Tolkien, it appears.

* “An Informal Survey of Cover Art of the Seventies”.

Also a mention of Lovecraft in an article on Chesterton’s Father Brown detective character, noting a circa early-1930s story…

he [Brown] remains untouched by “The Blast of the Book” (an amusing take-off on Necronomicon-like things, although whether Chesterton ever read H.P. Lovecraft is unknown to me) because he is not superstitious