The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

The annotations add so much context and insight, but I’m curious about the selection process—what was considered essential to understanding Lovecraft’s work today?

Learning about Lovecraft’s views and the era he wrote in made some of the stories feel more complex—did this affect how others experienced the horror and themes?

The detailed footnotes and commentary seem like a labor of love—was there a particular motivation or gap in existing editions that this aimed to fill?