Letters to Lovecraft : eighteen whispers to the darkness / edited by Jesse Bullington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bullington, Jesse, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Horror tales, American.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Stone Skin Press, 2014.

Summary:

"'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"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Past Reno / (Brian Evenson)

Only unity saves the damned / (Nadia Bulkin)

______ / (Paul Tremblay)

Allochthon / (Livia Llewellyn)

Doc's story / (Stephen Graham Jones)

The lonely wood / (Tim Lebbon)

Help me / (Cameron Pierce)

Glimmer in the darkness / (Asamatsu Ken)

The order of the haunted wood / (Jeffrey Ford)

Only the dead and the moonstruck / (Angela Slatter)

That place / (Gemma Files)

The horror at Castle of the Cumberland / (Chesya Burke)

Lovecrafting / (Orrin Grey)

One last meal, before the end / (David Yale Ardanuy)

There has been a fire / (Kirsten Alene)

The trees / (Robin D. Laws)

Food from the clouds / (Molly Tanzer)

The semi-finished basement / (Nick Mamatas).

ISBN:

1908983108

9781908983107

OCLC:

892870251

Publisher Number:

99963083986