Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions

From Historical Dark Fantasy set in Roman times, to Cthulhu Mythos post-apocalyptic, Schweitzer's unique voice shines through. Lovecraft's characters were submerged into non-entities by cosmic-scale horrors, but Schweitzer is interested in more personal and psychologic responses, lending his stories a filled-in texture often lacking. These 22 stories span from rural Pennsylvania to Asia Minor, and over 2,000 years of time, overlapping into dark fantasy, irony, and pure horror stories.

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Darrell Schweitzer has proven himself to be one of the most vibrant and imaginative creators of Lovecraftian fiction in recent years, Joshi writes, but his range is far broader than that. Here are stories of cosmic dread and wonder. Two are set in the worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, one in Hyperborea, one in Zothique. The Corpse Detective is set in a strange underworld, and is an inverted murder mystery in which the crime consists of returning the dead to life. 'The Warm is one of the few that addresses a specific Lovecraft tale. Here is Pickman's Model from the viewpoint of the ghoul. Ghost Dancing even dares to imagine the end of mankind's dominance over the Earth, as Cthulhu and the Old Ones return.Here is a book which will gave you rare nightmares

About the Author

Darrell Schweitzer is a four-time World Fantasy Award nominee and a one-time Shirley Jackson Award finalist. He won the World Fantasy Award in 1991 as co-editor of Weird Tales. He has published three dark fantastic novels, The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, and The Mask of the Sorcerer, and about three hundred short stories, many of which are found in his several collections. He is a poet, interviewer, critic, and anthologist, having in recent years edited two Lovecraftian anthologies, Cthulhu's Reign (2010) and That Is Not Dead (2015) among others. One of his earliest books was a significant compilation of Lovecraft scholarship, Essays Lovecraftian (1977), since revised and reissued as Discovering H.P. Lovecraft. He is author the author of the first complete survey of the work of Lord Dunsany, Pathways to Elfland (1989). He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, writer Marilyn Mattie Brahen, and the requisite literary cats.

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