Rob Hansen’s new and free ebook HOMEFRONT: Fandom in the UK, 1939-1945 may interest those exploring the years immediately after the death of Lovecraft. 163,000 words of primary and memoir material from and about British fandom during the Second World War…

There was a scheme afoot to materialize Lovecraft [among the spiritualist mediums of wartime London]

Well, there’s a cue for a new Mythos and Lovecraft-as-character story. Just add some rival Blackshirt occultists, and a guest appearance by Churchill accompanied by his (apparently) wartime industrial-production consultant S. Fowler Wright.