The Voluminous podcast dips into Lovecraft’s letters to his aunts, to find one on “Laundry and Influenza”…

Written during his time in New York, this letter to HPL’s Aunt Lillian discusses … the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.

I haven’t yet listened to the podcast yet, and perhaps the presenters verbally state where the letter is from. But I have the Letters from New York volume, and there’s no entry for ‘Influenza’ in the index. A Google Books search hints (without a snippet) it might be in Selected Letters 1, but Joshi’s index booklet (2nd ed.) for the Selected Letters has no entry at all for ‘Influenza’, and my quick flick-through of Vol. 1 in paper fails to identify a letter that appears to mention the topic.

Presumably all will be revealed when we get the indexed and annotated ‘aunts letters’, due later this summer in two volumes from Hippocampus. Update: I’ve now listened to the show, and yes, it’s from this forthcoming book.

In the meanwhile, I see that Hippocampus is now newly listing No. 27 of Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts.