New books. A new page on hplovecraft.com details Miskatonic Missives, Volume I, numbers 1–3 and exactly what’s in the volumes.

Also, listed a recent on PS Publishing’s site is the new-ish The Weird Tales Boys (September 2023), billed as an…

exploration of the influence of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith and the iconic pulp magazine Weird Tales

… and apparently with a focus on unravelling the complex interactions of these three greats at the time the tales were being written.

Italian philosopher and SF story writer Eric Marschall takes a look at Lovecraft: Knowledge and terror in a new ebook. Marschall looks at… “the fear of knowing and the love of knowledge that are both present in Lovecraft’s stories”. Amazon will send you a free 10% sample. In which one finds that the book starts from general philosophical ideas about such matters and then tries to map these onto aspects of Lovecraft’s fiction.

Also new in philosophy, the book Fragmentos filosoficos de horror. 25 essays in Portuguese, and it seems the well-regarded author has an interest in Lovecraft. Though I can find no table-of-contents for the book, which might reveal any specific essays on Lovecraft or his circle.

The Pulp Super-Fan super-swoops, cape rippling in the breeze, down onto the new book L’Affaire Barlow: H.P. Lovecraft and the Battle for His Literary Legacy…

This is a well-researched work, and I look forward to further works by this author, who is working on a biography of Barlow. […] The whole story about this affair is pretty sad as many people behaved badly. They pulled in others they shouldn’t have, attacked not only Barlow but others, and led to several proposed publications never seeing the light of day. Worse, some of those are lost, as the only copies were destroyed in a fire.

Meanwhile, down in Mexico the Tabasco Herald compares Tolkien and Lovecraft. I thought this was a review of the new Italian book on the topic, but it seems not.

Newly spotted, L’Affaire Barlow: H.P. Lovecraft and the Battle for His Literary Legacy (November 2023), with a foreword by Ken Faig Jr.

In L’Affaire Barlow, the author examines primary source material in detail never attempted before, clearly explaining how dangerously close Lovecraft’s work was to being litigated into obscurity. Bruised egos, personal vendettas, and Machiavellian plots abound, making control of the Lovecraft literary estate read like a tale from one of the pulp magazines. Lovecraft designated Robert Barlow as his literary executor. Barlow created the Lovecraft archives at Brown University even as a campaign was waged to wrest control of Lovecraft’s work from him. Barlow’s reputation was destroyed among the Lovecraft circle. It was only after his premature death that his unyielding guardianship of Lovecraft’s legacy was fully understood despite the plot against him. L’Affaire Barlow is the story of Robert Barlow’s quest to preserve the Old Gent from Providence for the ages.

The new Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts No. 34 is now on the Hippocampus Press website. As well as the reviews, there’s “An Interview with Ellen Datlow”.

S.T. Joshi’s blog announces…

“I have nearly finished a revised edition of Lovecraft’s Library (to appear next year from Hippocampus)”

The folks over on the Moebius Reddit say that Doctor Moebius and Mister Gir is finally shipping, after the years of delay. Supposedly from Dark Horse in early August 2022, but it seems it’s only just now arriving.