Chris Perridas posts news of a most unusual item, Lovecraft’s own annotated wall plan of his grandfather’s study, which along with the attic library is the ‘ground zero’ of 20th century horror. Unfortunately the online scans at L.W. Perry are too small to read. I’ve enlarged them and sharpened as best I can. You can make out what some of the labels say…

It seems there was a whole wall of cat/kitten paintings, which Lovecraft dubs “Kitten Row”.

I’d love to see this space and the 2000-volume attic library (strong joists! *) faithfully recreated via a videogame engine, so we could “step inside it”. Many of the library’s volumes must now also have been scanned and placed online by Google and others — would it also be possible to recreate the book collection in “virtual form”?

( * although the attic was apparently only a store-room or sub-library for the older books of the library)