Black Wings III - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

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.