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Letters to Lovecraft

By: Stone Skin Press

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Stone Skin Press)

MSRP old price: $13.99


Product Info

Title
Letters to Lovecraft
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Kristen Alene, David Ardanuy, Brian Evenson
Publish Year
2015
Pages
280
Dimensions
6x9x.75"
NKG Part #
2147574400
MFG. Part #
9781908983107
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

‘The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.’

So begins H. P. Lovecraft’s essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” arguably the most important analysis of horror ever written. Yet while hordes of writers have created works based on Lovecraft’s fiction, never before has an anthology taken its inspiration directly from the literary manifesto behind his entire mythos…until now.

Like cultists poring over a forbidden tome, eighteen modern masters of horror have gathered here to engage with Lovecraft’s treatise. Rather than responding with articles of their own, these authors have written new short stories inspired by intriguing quotes from the essay, offering their own whispers to the darkness. They tell of monsters and madmen, of our strange past and our weirder future, of terrors stalking the winter woods, the broiling desert, and eeriest of all, our bustling cities, our family homes.