Forbidden Knowledge: Two Tales of Lovecraftian Terror by Tony LaMalfa

Tony LaMalfa's debut of twin tales -- "The Face in the Floor" and "If Only Skin Deep" -- reveal the relentless, creeping darkness that suspends Lovecraft readers where they are happiest: between worlds and succumbing to our own ontological shockwaves. Lyrical and contemplative, the stories echo with the quiet, classic torrents of madness and the steady undertones of the master himself, but LaMalfa's reinventions are his own as he draws readers into crumbling, liminal moments of "transient amnesia," "colliding destinies" and "torments past, present and otherwise." A stellar debut from a rising star.