It was their stories that gave my young imagination the invaluable boost it needed. It was Lovecraft, along with Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King that led me to want to write. I have fond memories of the escape they gave me from the glaring sun and dusty existence on those expansive and stultifying plains. I still reread stories in them once in a while, too. I still have that yellowing, old Del Rey paperback and all its brethren that I bought as soon as I had saved up the money. The amazingly creepy cover art by Michael Whelan and the tagline, “Bone-chilling tales of horror and the macabre” had me hooked. This journey began for me over thirty five years ago when I picked up my first H.P. The bust of Lovecraft above resides at this loving tribute to the book. It’s an amazing institution and has the narrow old stacks that makes a library feel true to me. Lovecraft spent countless hours at the Athenaeum, one of the five oldest libraries in America. In the summer of 2018, I visited Providence, RI, Lovecraft’s hometown, to research and get inspired while working on this book. Lovecraft “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
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