Black Wings III - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

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This third installment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings
series contains seventeen stories by some of the foremost writers in
contemporary weird fiction, using the ideas, imagery, and atmosphere of
H. P. Lovecraft’s tales as springboards. Jonathan Thomas opens the book
with a chilling tale of biological horror set in Lovecraft’s native
Providence, Rhode Island. Caitlín R. Kiernan melds brooding melancholy
with Lovecraftian cosmicism in her tale, while Simon Strantzas weaves an
ingenious variant on Lovecraft’s concept of the ghoul. Darrell
Schweitzer and Donald Tyson probe the notion of alternate worlds in
their tales.
This volume takes the reader on imaginative journeys around the world.
Don Webb finds Lovecraftian horror in the wilds of Texas; Peter Cannon’s
characters encounter the denizens of Innsmouth on a trip to China;
Mollie L. Burleson enlivens the American Southwest with terrors out of
history. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., revivifies Lovecraft’s ancient New
England seaport of Kingsport, Massachusetts, while in their
collaborative tale W. H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson do the
same with Lovecraft’s iconic Arkham. The volume concludes with a
searching rumination on Lovecraft’s early tale “From Beyond” by Brian
Stableford.Black Wings III demonstrates how H. P. Lovecraft’s work continues to inspire some of the best in contemporary weird writing.