The New Lovecraft Circle

xxvi, 449 pp. H.P. Lovecraft was the eerily prescient genius who first electrified readers in Weird Tales magazine. His tales changed the face of horror forever and inspired the bloodcurdling offerings of a new generation. These brilliant dark visionaries forge grisly trails through previously uncharted realms of mortal terror. The Plain of Sound by Ramsey Campbell: In the beginning they could find no source for the throbbing vibrations; in the end they could find no escape. The Horror on the Beach by Alan Dean Foster: Along the coast of Santa Barbara, the mighty Pacific Ocean can no longer contain - or conceal - an ancient, insatiable evil stirring in its depths. The Kiss of Bugg-Shash by Brian Lumley: It mattered not how innocent the students' motives seemed; the demon had been summoned, and the price had to be paid - every last red drop of it. The Fishers from Outside by Lin Carter: A man obsessed with unlocking the secrets of a race older than time would not be disappointed - doomed perhaps, devoured possibly, but definitely not disappointed. Includes: Preface by Ramsey Campbell; Introduction by Robert M. Price; The Plain of Sound by Ramsey Campbell; The Stone on the Island by Ramsey Campbell; The Statement of One John Gibson by Brian Lumley; Demoniacal by David Sutton; The Slitherer from the Slime by H. P. Lowcraft; The Doom of Yakthoob by Lin Carter; The Fishers from Outside by Lin Carter; The Keeper of the Flame by Gary Myers; Dead Giveaway by J. Vernon Shea; Those Who Wait by James Wade; The Keeper of Dark Point by John Glasby; The Black Mirror by John Glasby; I've Come to Talk with You Again by Karl Edward Wagner; The Howler in the Dark by Richard L. Tierney; The Horror on the Beach by Alan Dean Foster; The Whisperers by Richard A. Lupoff; Lights! Camera! Shub-Niggurath! by Richard A. Lupoff; Saucers from Yaddith by Robert M. Price; Vastarien by Thomas Ligotti; The Madness Out of Space by Peter H. Cannon; Aliah Warden by Roger Johnson; The Last Supper by Donald R. Burleson; The Church at Garlock's Bend by David Kaufman; The Spheres Beyond Sound (Threnody) by Mark Rainey.