OK, found this little snippet from the Center of Ray Bradbury Studies:
For the F&SF reprint, Bradbury added a whimsical encounter with H. P. Lovecraft as Poe, Bierce and Blackwood make their way to visit Dickens (an F&SF substitution for Hawthorne). Bradbury was not satisfied with this long 600-word parody of Lovecraft and deleted it from all further versions.
Apparently Anthony Boucher, then editor of F&SF, (of the Sherlock Holmes Radio plays fame) had contacted Bradbury and asked for slight modifications of the 1949 MacClean version. I assume that this is why no mention fo the previous version is listed since there are enough changes to warrant it as a "new" item.
Wait, do you mean in the story incorporated into the Martian Chronicles where humanity's famous dark fictioneers are out in space? If so, encountering Lovecraft there would have changed me as a pre-teen.
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