New blog post by S.T. Joshi. He notes of his forthcoming Variorum Lovecraft, an edition including all the textual variants in Lovecraft’s fiction, that…

“As an appendix [in Variorum Lovecraft], I will print things like … “Of Evill Sorceries done in New-England, of Daemons of No Humane Shape” — the fragment that August Derleth incorporated (with extensive alterations) into The Lurker at the Threshold (1945). It does not appear as if I or anyone else has ever published this document, in its original form.

Del Toro’s new book Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions, in the New York Times…

“it also includes pictures of Bleak House, where del Toro works and stores hundreds of artworks, figurines and props. … Most disconcertingly, a lifelike full-size sculpture of H. P. Lovecraft stands in a library, angrily looking up from a book as if you’ve interrupted him”