num_pages: 191
description: 23 contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness - many inspired directly by the thoughts and writings of H P Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes, perhaps unwittingly, in their own bizarre sub-texts. Here the primal beings of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stalk a post-modern landscape of social collapse, ethnic cleansing, genetic engineering and nuclear devastation - nightmare prophecies from his pulp pages which have now come chillingly true. The undercurrents of sexual and ecological displacement which powered Lovecraft's work have finally been laid bare, providing this maligned genius with a long-overdue retrospective and revealing him to be a true prophet of the 20th century. The Starry Wisdom includes a host of brand new, previously unpublished prose and graphic works, plus select reprints which are now shown in a brand new light, forming a fascinating document which will appeal not only to readers of H P Lovecraft, but to all lovers of innovative art and literature in the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.CONTENTS "Lovecraft in Heaven" by Grant Morrison "Third Eye Butterfly" by James Havoc and Mike Philbin "A Thousand Young" by Robert M. Price "The Night Sea-Maid Went Down" by Brian Lumley "From this Swamp" by Henry Wessels "Prisoner of the Coral Deep" by J. G. Ballard "Black Static" by David Conway "Red Mass" by Dan Kellett "Wind Die. You Die. We Die" by William S. Burroughs "The Call of Cthulhu" by John Coulthart &amp; H. P. Lovecraft "Potential" by Ramsey Campbell "Walpurgisnachtmusik" by Simon Whitechapel "Meltdown" by D. F. Lewis "Beyond Reflection" by John Beal "This Exquisite Corpse" by C. G. Brandrick &amp; D. M. Mitchell "Extracted from the Mouth of the Consumer, Rotting Pig" by Michael Gira "Hypothetical Materfamilias" by Adele O. Gladwell "The Sound of a Door Opening" by Don Webb "The Courtyard" by Alan Moore "The Dreamers in Darkness" by Peter Smith "Pills for Miss Betsy" by Rick Grimes "23 Nails" by Stephen Sennitt "Ward 23" by D. M. Mitchell
language: English
title: The Starry Wisdom : A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft
titlecomplete: The Starry Wisdom : A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft
genres: Weird Fiction, Lovecraftian, Anthologies, Cthulhu Mythos, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, Horror
ratings_count: 214
series: Starry Wisdom
publisher: Creation Books