S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated, and he reports receipt of copies of his new edition of Lovecraft’s Library: A Catalogue. 148 new additions for me, as I only have the 2002 paper edition on my shelves. Same cover art as before. I see it’s now properly listed at Amazon UK as Lovecraft’s Library: A Catalogue (Fifth Revised Edition), so buyers can be sure of getting the right edition. Amazon is currently saying it might take four weeks to deliver to the UK.

Incidentally, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a visualisation of the attic library in which Lovecraft did his first serious ‘bookworm’ reading among ye olde discards from the family collection. This is as close as I can get without using AI, my Photoshopped version of a picture showing an untouched-for-100-years Rhode Island attic library.