For decades, Darrell Schweitzer has been prominent in studying and elaborating upon the work of H. P. Lovecraft. As critic, poet, and fiction writer he has analyzed and expanded upon Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos without compromising his own distinctive voice.
In this new collection of tales, Schweitzer draws upon the fictional realm that he has made his own—Chorazin, a village in rural Pennsylvania where all manner of strange events occur. The strangeness lies not only in the incursion of extraterrestrial entities but in the very souls of its reclusive inhabitants. Just as Lovecraft fused the cosmic and the human in his evocation of such sinister locales as Arkham, Innsmouth, and Dunwich, so Schweitzer creates his own sub-Mythos in a region long familiar to him.
Other stories in the book present novel improvisations on other aspects of Lovecraft’s work. “Down to a Sunless Sea” elaborates upon Lovecraft’s Antarctic novella At the Mountains of Madness; “Not in the Card Catalog” is a riff on the “forbidden book” theme; and in “The Return of the Night-Gaunts” Schweitzer puts Lovecraft himself on stage as a literary character.
In all these tales, Darrell Schweitzer combines horror, pathos, and emotional intensity to bring a new dimension to the neo-Lovecraftian tale, where the anomalies of the human psyche are as terrifying as the incursion of alien entities from the depths of space.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Uncle’s in the Treetops
The Red Witch of Chorazin
The Girl in the Attic
The Hutchison Boy
Not in the Card Catalog
Down to a Sunless Sea
A Prism of Darkness
No Signal
Come, Follow Me
Odd Man Out
Madness on the Black Planet
Going to Ground
The Martian Bell
Were—?
Boxes of Dead Children
The Return of the Night-Gaunts
All Kings and Princes Bow Down unto Me
The Festival of the Pallid Mask
A Dark Miracle
A Predicament
The Thief of Dreams
Killing the Pale Man
Appeasing the Darkness
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
The Interrogator
The White Face
Acknowledgments
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