I’ve updated my “Lovecraft for beginners” guide/FAQ page, ready for Lovecraft’s birthday tomorrow. Newly added, among others…

i. “On the searchability/indexing of the letters) “A unified index to the collected volumes of Letters is underway, but may not appear for a while yet.”

ii. (on finding a poetry index). “a full index to the second edition of The Ancient Track is forthcoming and is set to be released for Lovecraft’s Birthday on 20th August 2021.”

iii. (New section for ‘Philosophy’ added). “Introductory studies of Lovecraft’s philosophy and thought, which is considerable, can be found in the books H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West; The Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft (New Studies in Aesthetics series); and Ideology and Scientific Thought in H.P. Lovecraft.”

iv. (Commenting on the nature of the encyclopedias available). “Note that these encyclopaedias do not cover Lovecraft’s intellectual ideas and his engagement with the ideas/science of his time, and a hypothetical title such as An Intellectual Encyclopaedia for H.P. Lovecraft is a book that remains to be written.”

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I see that Bobby Derie also has what appears to be a new-this-week FAQ page answering common questions posed about Lovecraft.