As we turn the year and start to look toward 2024, what anniversaries might one want to start preparing for?

Here are a few. Perhaps Tentaclii readers can add more?

1944: 80 years

Winfield Townley Scott and others. Lovecraft’s likely long-term influence starts to be felt.

* Scott, W. T. “Howard Lovecraft’s Lengthening Shade.” The Providence Sunday Journal, 109, No. 47 (21st May 1944).
* Scott, W. T., “His Own Most Fantastic Creation : Howard Phillips Lovecraft” (1944).
* Fritz Leiber, Jr.,, “A Literary Copernicus”, Acolyte, Fall 1944.
* U.S. soldiers carry “The Dunwich Horror” into and across Europe, in Derleth’s special military paperback edition.
* Edmund ‘always dismally wrong’ Wilson attempts to blast Lovecraft’s emerging reputation, in The New Yorker in May 1944.

1924: 100 years

* Lovecraft leaves for New York City, marries Sonia. Begins his ‘New York exile’.
* Lovecraft completes “Imprisoned with the Pharoahs” for Houdini.
* Lovecraft writes “The Shunned House”.
* The ‘Kalem Club’ attains its recognisable form.
* Publication of “The Rats in the Walls”.

1874: 150 years

* Births of Charles Fort, Houdini.
* Lovecraft’s father all-but vanishes from the historical record. He turns up again in 1889 for his Boston marriage.