The booklet Christmas with H.P. Lovecraft now has a page on hplovecraft.com, with detailed description and table-of-contents. This usefully shows that none of the letters were excerpted, which seems a pity. The publication is poems, “The Festival” and the ‘Christmas Greetings’ ditties sent to friends (and friends’ cats) at Christmas. One might have hoped that the compiler could have slipped in just two or three bits from the letters. Which Brown consider to be in the public domain. I mean, how could one leave out something like this…

[Yule (Christmas)] here was commendably cheerful — including a turkey dinner at the boarding-house across the garden, with a congenial cat meandering among the tables and finally jumping up on the windowseat for a nap. We had a tree by the living-room fireplace — its verdant boughs thickly festooned with a tinsel imitation of Florida’s best Spanish moss, and its outlines emphasised by a not ungraceful lighting system. Around its base were ranged the modest Saturnalian gifts — which included (on my side) a hassock [a cushioned wooden foot-stool] tall enough to let me reach the top shelves of my bookcases […]. Of outside gifts the most distinctive was perhaps that which came quite unexpectedly from one of the kid fantasy fan group […] when I had removed numberless layers of corrugated paper and excelsior, what should I find before me but the yellowed and crumbling fragments of a long-interred human skull!

A new attempt to strap Lovecraft onto the large stones which dot Providence and other parts of New England, in a new booklet of 96 pages titled H.P. Lovecraft’s Megaliths: The Unknown In Plain Sight (Jan 2024)…

So careful a worker was Lovecraft that even though he substituted fictional names for those of the New England anomalous artifacts that he visited, researchers have been able to use Lovecraft’s fiction as a guide to the sites and have been able to locate a number of the stone circles and stone crypts that were so fundamental to his terrifying world-building.

Note that Fungi from Yuggoth by H. P. Lovecraft: An Annotated Edition (2022) is “back in print by popular demand”.

Note also that if my browser’s DNS is set to use Cloudflare, I can’t get to Hippocampus Press. Set it to Google DNS and I can get there. If you have the same problem, try switching away from Cloudflare.

New to me, Long Memories and Other Writings (2022)…

This book gathers Cannon’s fictional and nonfictional writings about Frank Belknap Long, presenting an affectionate but critical portrait of a man whose long life was punctuated both with tragedy and with notable achievements in life and letters.

The book came out in summer 2022, but must have escaped my attention. Now also a £5 Kindle ebook on Amazon.

Due in March, a 192 page affordable pocket-book of Fungi de Yuggoth, et autres poemes. In French translation by Thomas Spok.

Pegana Press blogs that the limited edition Annals of the Jinns is now test-binding and that…

I will share more news and photos of this lovely Limited Edition of Annals of the Jinns by R.H. Barlow soon

These tales appeared in print as a Fantasy Fan series in 1933-35 and thus would have been read by Lovecraft, around the time of the penning of The Shadow Out of Time and the experiments that led up to it. They can be found on Project Gutenberg and in good form in the Barlow collection Eyes of the God.

Barlow’s overall title comes from Vathek…

Thither [to the lovely flowered island] Ganigul often retired in the daytime to read in quiet the marvellous annals of the Jinns, the chronicles of ancient worlds, and the prophecies relating to the worlds that are yet to be born.

I had often, while in Shadukan, read the annals of the Jinns, and, as soon as you spoke of the fatal cupboard, I knew what it contained.