Fantasist H. P. Lovecraft enjoys an honor shared by few other authors of imaginative fiction -- since his death, the term Lovecraftian has come into worldwide use to describe a body of work so fully realized as to influence countless generations of subsequent writers. Each author in this volume came under the Lovecraftian conjuration and then wrote a story that in some way reflects this experience, providing compelling testimony that H. P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential writers of the 20(th) century.

These stories have been previously published but are now gathered together to create this excellent and diverse anthology.

The "Shadow" over Lovecraft Her Misbegotten Son / Alan Rodgers Daoine Domhain / Peter Tremayne To Mars and Providence / Don Webb Weird Tales / Fred Chappell The Land of the Reflected Ones / Nancy A. Collins The Shadow at the Bottom of the World / Thomas Ligotti Sensible City / Harlan Ellison The Golden Keeper / Ian R. MacLeod Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir / Ron Goulart

Crouch End / Stephen King The Turret / Richard A. Lupoff The Giant Rat of Sumatra / Paula Volsky Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole / Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop The other Dead Man / Gene Wolfe The Events at Poroth Farm / T. E. D. Klein The Ocean and all its Devices / William Browning Spencer A Bit of the Dark World / Fritz Leiber The Perseids / Robert Charles Wilson.