It occurs to me that Lovecraftian researchers could now have a keyword search-engine for Lovecraft’s own library, plus books he is known to have read. If we want it. Since most of these books are now in the public domain and have been scanned by Google, and are consequently now free on Archive.org, Gutenberg, or Hathi. Rather than just a list of Web links, the best option would be to:

   i. go through the second edition of the book Lovecraft’s Library, Google-ing the titles and getting the Web URLs for the full plain text if it exists online.

   ii. plug this URL-list into a free Google Custom Search personalised search-engine.

Alternatively, someone could create a commercial product on a DVD which serves the same function. This might have the benefit of including PDF digital facsimiles, as well as referencing the stripped plain text of the books. Such a product could also acquire and scan any public domain volumes unavailable online. Feel free to take this idea and run with it, with the suggestion that you can probably save yourself a lot of work by commissioning someone via elance.com or similar. I imagine that $200 or so would entice some student to spend a few days doing the grunt-work of looking up the Lovecraft’s Library titles and getting the URLs.