Walking the Strangeways digs up Three poems by William Lumley (1934-1935) of Buffalo N.Y. These are…

* “The Dweller” (1934) by William Lumley. [Definite HPL revision]
* “Shadows” (1934) by William Lumley.
* “The Elder Thing” (1935) by William Lumley. [“Perhaps” a HPL revision]

The first and last are obviously chanter-poems meant for oral recital in the old lugubrious manner, and are rather lively in their way.

Of the three The Ancient Track has only the first, “The Dweller”, in the appendix “Lovecraft’s Revisions of Poetry”.

The Lovecraft Encyclopedia has…

HPL also revised Lumley’s “occasional bits of verse”, perhaps including “The Elder Thing”

… but says nothing of “Shadows”. It does seem poor and different compared to the other two, and it doesn’t feel like one Lovecraft revised.

Elsewhere in poetry this week, The Lone Animator announces he is working on a stop-motion animation for Donald Wandrei’s poetry sequence “Sonnets of the Midnight Hours”.