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Part of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series, this third installment contains seventeen stories by some of the foremost writers in contemporary weird fiction, using the ideas, imagery, and atmosphere of H P Lovecraft's tales as springboards.
List of contents
Introduction by S. T. Joshi
Houdini Fish Jonathan Thomas
Dimply Dolly Doofy Donald R. Burleson
The Hag Stone Richard Gavin
Underneath an Arkham Moon Jessica Amanda Salmonson & W. H. Pugmire
Spiderwebs in the Dark Darrell Schweitzer
One Tree Hill (The World as Catalysm) Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Man with the Horn Jason V. Brock
Hotel del Lago Mollie L. Burleson
Waller Donald Tyson
The Megalith Plague Don Webb
Down Black Staircases Joseph S. Pulver, Sr
China Holiday Peter Cannon
Necrotic Cove Lois Gresh
The Turn of the Tide Mark Howard Jones
Weltschmerz Sam Gafford
Thistle’s Find Simon Strantzas
Further Beyond Brian Stableford
About the author
S. T. Joshi is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and others. He has edited the definitive restored editions of the works of Lovecraft, several annotated editions of Bierce and Mencken, and has written such critical studies as The Modern Weird Tale. His biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life won the Horror Writer Association's Stoker Award for best-non fiction.
Summary
Part of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series, this third installment contains seventeen stories by some of the foremost writers in contemporary weird fiction, using the ideas, imagery, and atmosphere of H P Lovecraft's tales as springboards.
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Volume three of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series offers seventeen original tales of horror, following in the footsteps of the master. Stephen King has called H. P. Lovecraft “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale,” and his influence continues unabated.
These new offerings of cosmic terror come from many of the genre’s greatest modern acolytes, including Jason V Brock, Donald R. Burleson, Mollie L. Burleson, Peter Cannon,
Sam Gafford, Richard Gavin, Lois Gresh, Mark Howard Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Darrell Schweitzer, Jessica Amanda Salmonson and W. H. Pugmire, Simon Strantzas, Brian Stableford, Jonathan Thomas,
Donald Tyson, and Don Webb.
