I'm wondering if I enjoyed this issue more than a lot of people because I'm an H P Lovecraft fan, and the scenario is something he could easily have written?

Actually, I'm a pretty big Lovecraft fan, so probably not. :-) And while the bare bones of the scenario are certainly Lovecraftian (Lovecraftesque? Lovecraftish? Lovecrafty?), with a damned town, secretive townspeople and something unspeakably horriffic lurking among the dusty tomes of the library, I certainly didn't get that feel from it. At least no more than usual; I've heard more than one person claim that the Buffyverse actually exists within the Cthulhuverse - Old Ones, hell dimensions, accidental summonings etc. Though if it does, it's certainly a more managable version - perhaps one in which the whole Cthulhu mythos is a mythologised and slightly exaggerated take on the "real" story?

Speaking of Lovecraft and bare bones, I just finished reading his Commonplace Book. Now that's a frustrating read; 222 ideas for stories that, in most cases, were never written. Would make a nice set of prompts for a ficathon, though... *ponders*