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Strange Stones

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Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni's novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.

Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed critic of H.P Lovecraft's works, is no stranger to making people mad. Giving convention presentations on the triteness and melodrama of Lovecraft's work pays the bills, though. Sometimes he even gets laid.

When he angers a beautiful but dangerous witch and devotee of Lovecraft's work, she casts a spell on him, sending him to a dimension where Lovecraft's works are very real—and very deadly. Everard must find a way through this alternate dimension to get home, before the worst of Lovecraft's horrors prove what a master of monstrosities he really was.

Edward lee's humorous transgressive style meets Mary SanGiovanni's literary touch to carve out the Lovecraftian dimensions that is Strange Stones.

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      November 1, 2024
      Weird-fiction scholar Professor Everard is a regular on the horror-convention circuit, giving lectures and sleeping with women attendees. While promoting his latest book--which proclaims that H. P. Lovecraft was a hack--he angers a beautiful witch, both with his bad take and his lecherousness. She casts a spell that sends Everard into Lovecraft's stories, forcing him to use his knowledge of the author's work to get out of danger without losing his life or his mind, a challenge for any Lovecraft protagonist. Presenting a modern retelling of Lovecraft's work, stripped of the original's archaic language and with full acknowledgement of Lovecraft's horrific world view, Lee (a critically acclaimed author of extreme horror) and SanGiovanni (an award-winning novelist and Lovecraft scholar) have created an immersive, visceral, and existentially terrifying tale injected with just the right amount of satire. It's a story that showcases what is enduring about Lovecraft's work while inviting new readers in, much like I Am Providence (2016), by Nick Mamatas, The Ballad of Black Tom (2016), by Victor LaValle, and Sister, Maiden, Monster (2023), by Lucy Snyder.

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