At the HPLHS Store and new to me, a line of Lovecraftian Netsuke…
Also said to be set for the store (seemingly coming soon, perhaps for the Birthday on the 20th?) a toothsome faux carved whale-tooth from Innsmouth…
Lovecraft on carving…
“That [new] theory of rock carvings 150,000 years old is certainly fascinating in the extreme – even though it presupposes the evolution of man to have begun at a period somewhat earlier than is normally assumed.”
“The prevalence and depth of the mediaeval horror-spirit in Europe, intensified by the dark despair which waves of pestilence brought, may be fairly gauged by the grotesque carvings slyly introduced into much of the finest later Gothic ecclesiastical work of the time”.
“I am truly of an opinion, that [eighteenth century] carvings are just as genuine poesy as anything ever writ in lines and rhymes.”