Thanks to the Archive.org’s ingestion of old newspapers from microfilm, I’ve found a new early item on Lovecraft that was not included in the collection A Weird Writer in Our Midst: Early Criticism of H.P. Lovecraft. It’s from the Chicago Daily Tribune, 27th April 1945. As the Nazi camps opened and the news floods the newspaper’s initial pages, an anonymous ‘book notes’ columnist reaches for his edition of Lovecraft’s The Outsider and Others. The ‘black magic’ quote here attributed to Lovecraft was a fake, as many will recall.