FRANK BELKNAP LONG is the only member of the original Lovecraft Circle to be represented in this anthology. His affectionate and informative memoir of those days, HPL: Dreamer on the Nightside, is available from Arkham House, which also has published two collections of his weird tales, The Hounds of Tindalos and The Rim of the Unknown, his short Mythos novel The Horror from the Hills, and a volume of poetry, In Mayan Splendor. In Dreamer on the Nightside he compares his fiction with Lovecraft's: 'My own stories followed a somewhat different pattern in their approach to the macabre and were less cosmic.' But Lovecraft approved of his work and undoubtedly would have enjoyed the present nostalgic story, 'Dark Awakening.'
H. P. LOVECRAFT is the most influential American author of weird fiction in this century. Among the many writers who acknowledge his influences are Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, August Derleth, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, and Colin Wilson, nor should one forget the Illuminatus! trilogy or the Lovecraftian jokes of Gahan Wilson. His collected fiction, and five volumes of his letters, are obtainable from Arkham House (USA).
BRIAN LUMLEY was born in Horden, a colliery village in County Durham on the northeast coast of England, and served as a sergeant in the British Royal Military Police. The author loves 'Robert E. Howard, Lovecraft, budgies, his wife, three kids, kite-soaring, his typewriter, fish and chips, and brandy.' His most recent novel is the horror epic Necroscope II: Wamphyri!
MARTIN S. WARNES was born in Bradford, England, where he works in the textile industry. 'The Black Tome of Alsophocus' is a posthumous completion of the 1934 Lovecraftian fragment The Book,' previously published in Dagon and Other Macabre Tales.
RETURN TO THE CAVES OF ABOMINATION
Mythmaker, visionary, conjuror of nightmare, outsider in his own century, H. P. Lovecraft called a whole universe into being: Great Cthulhu, the blind idiot god Azathoth, the sunken realm of R'lyeh, the infamous Necronomicon-a world peopled with a festering pantheon of creatures who stalked upon the Earth before humanity's spanning...
H. P. LOVECRAFT T.E.D. KLEIN
STEPHEN KING A.A. ATTANASIO
RAMSEY CAMPBELL DAVID DRAKE
FRANKBELKNAPLONG MARTIN S. WARNES
BRIAN LUMLEY BASIL COPPER
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Introduction
The Star Pools by A. A. ATTANASIO
The Second Wish by BRIAN LUMLEY
Dark Awakening by FRANK BELKNAP LONG
Shaft Number 247 by BASIL COPPER
Black Man With a Horn by T. E. D. KLEIN
The Black Tome of Alsophocus by H.P LOVECRAFT AND MARTIN S WARNES
Than Curse the Darkness by DAVID DRAKE
The Faces at Pine Dunes by RAMSEY CAMPBELL
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