A website for the many exhibitions and events to celebrate the seminal writer and historian Sir Walter Scott at 250. It seems the publicity did not extend far enough outside Scotland to reach me, and I find that many are now past. Yet the roster still includes choice items such as “Haunted Scott”, an online talk and event on 29th October 2021. There is also a London exhibition opening this Autumn/Fall.

S.T. Joshi’s I Am Providence observed Scott’s influence on Lovecraft at a formative time…

One long weird poem […] is “Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme”. This 312-line poem was begun in the fall of 1917 but not completed until May or June of 1918. Unlike the bulk of Lovecraft’s weird verse written up to this time, the apparent influence on this poem […] is not Poe but the ballads of Sir Walter Scott.

At the other end of the nation, and also with a faint Lovecraft connection via his Devonshire/Cornish roots, an online lecture on 12th January 2022 on “The Cornish Gothic: Haunted Cornwall in Victorian Literature”.