Modern Masters of Terror The works of H. P. Lovecraft have inspired brilliant writers for decades, leading Stephen King to call him the "twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." S.T. Joshi-the twenty-first century's preeminent expert on all things Lovecraftian-gathers greatest modern acolytes, including Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Brian Stableford, Nicholas Royle, Darrell Schweitzer and W.H.Pugmire, each of whom serves up a new masterpiece of cosmic terror that delves deep into the human psyche to horrify and disturb.
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S. T. Joshi is the leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft. He has edited the definitive restored editions of the works of Lovecraft, and has written such critical studies as The Modern Weird Tale. His biography of the reknowned author; H. P. Lovecraft: A Life won the Horror Writer Association's Stoker Award for best-non fiction.
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Introduction - S. T. Joshi
Pickman's Other Model (1929) - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Desert Dreams - Donald R. Burleson
Engravings - Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Copping Squid - Michael Shea
Passing Spirits - Sam Gafford
The Broadsword - Laird Barron
Usurped - William Browning Spencer
Denker's Book - David J. Schow
Inhabitants of Wraithwood - W. H. Pugmire
Rotterdam - Nicholas Royle
Tempting Providence - Jonathan Thomas
Howling in the Dark - Darrell Schweitzer
The Truth about Pickman - Brian Stableford
Tunnels - Philip Haldeman
The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash - Annotated by Ramsey Campbell
Violence, Child of Trust - Michael Cisco
Lesser Demons - Norman Partridge
An Eldritch Matter - Adam Niswander
Substitution - Michael Marshall Smith
Susie - Jason Van Hollander