Javier Calvo has translated Lovecraft’s letters into Spanish, and apparently this is the very first time there has been such a book-length translation. The new book is evidently a ‘selected letters’, focusing on Lovecraft’s labour and growth as a writer…

Edited by Javier Calvo, based on a corpus of more than twelve thousand pages, this first volume, ‘Writing Against Men’, focuses on Lovecraft’s literary career: his projects, goals, successes, and failures; his relationship with his literary circle; and the birth of the momentous mythology of it.

Apparently this is the first of three planned volumes, something which seems almost certain given the strong interest in the man in the Spanish-speaking world. Said to be shipping in February 2023, and listed on Amazon.es under the title “Escribir contra los hombres. Cartas de H. P. Lovecraft, Vol. I”. The Amazon listing reveals that the first volume is a table-trembler at a hefty 544 pages. The price is 35 Euro, which converts to around $38.

Also in Spain, the leftist newspaper El Pais ($ paywall) had a weekend article on The Commonplace Book of H.P. Lovecraft. I can’t get past the paywall, but perhaps there’s also a new translation of the Commonplace Book in Spain, occasioning the new article?

The French should today be unboxing their sixth volume of the complete H.P. Lovecraft. This is the new French translation from Mnemos. The book shipped last week, if the Amazon UK date can be trusted.

Not quite the final volume in the sumptuous set. The last will be Vol. 7 in March 2023, which is either “About Lovecraft” or “Lovecraft’s Circle” depending on how you translate its title.

The Pulp Super-Fan makes an initial survey of Robert M. Price’s Lovecraftian collections. Since Price’s podcasts have become scarce, I was unaware of his two collections of his own Mythos fiction, in 2019 and a follow-on in 2020.

His main 588-page book one can now be had as an affordable ebook, Blasphemies & Revelations. While the shorter companion of the following year, Horrors & Heresies, still seems to be in paperback only.

A look at his Amazon page also reveals… ahaa… what’s this… Crypt of Cthulhu #114 (July 2022) on Amazon as an ebook. Yes, a substantial new issue of Crypt came out in summer 2022 and is the first since 2019. Who knew? Includes a look at “Lovecraft and Cinema in his Day”, and an interview with David E. Schultz, among others.

The earlier #113 issue is still the latest listed over at the PDF downloads page.

I’ve updated my recent survey of ‘Lovecraft in 2022’ with the new information on Crypt. I’ve also added there the news about Derleth slipping into the public domain in Canada, now that this is confirmed (their new 2023 ’70-year law’ is not retrospective). Idle notion: what if Robert M. Price were to re-write Derleth’s ‘Lovecraft collaborations’ as they should have been… now that would be something to behold!

S.T. Joshi’s new Horror Fiction Index is published…

a listing of nearly 3,300 single-author horror collections from 1808 to 2010. The print edition is a whopping 741 pages, containing a list of the collections (arranged alphabetically by author, and chronologically within a given author’s books) with their tables of contents, followed by indexes of names, collection titles, and story titles (nearly 30,000 of them).

It’s a ‘story finding-aid’, so far as I’m aware, and thus doesn’t also list prefaces, scholarly notes (or not), etc. Now available in paperback and ebook. I was pleased to be able to supply two of his ‘unknown contents’ listings. Joshi reports than only ten such ‘unknown’ collections remained un-solved by the time the book went to print. Hopefully someone will now pick this up and produce an expanded second edition in due course.

There’s now a full name-listing for the many letters included in the new volumes of Miscellaneous Letters and also Letters to Woodburn Harris and Others.

The German Lovecraftians have proof copies of their forthcoming volume of Lovecraft’s selected poetry, translated and presented in a handsome 300-page edition…

With the publication of the volume of poems Fungi by Yuggoth and Other Poems, some of these verses are now available in German for the first time.

The editor and translator is said to have followed the ‘suggestions for arrangement’ of a poetry volume, from the lists which Lovecraft had set down for Barlow in the 1930s.

The new book is not available yet, but they say “we hope the presses will soon be running at full steam” for this, ready for shipping in spring 2023.

Also, their regular podcast has lost their key editor/uploader due to his work-pressures. They have replacements for now, but let them know if you can offer regular German-speaking help.

Mist and Mystery: Recovered Stories and Essays by Arthur Machen, including his journalistic work described as “forgotten articles”.