Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
(In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.)
GROWING UP WITHOUT A father, young Howard Phillips Lovecraft learns from Ward Kindred, his enigmatic new tutor, not only the secrets of his strange heritage but also what the future might hold . . .
Years later, following the FBI’s raid on the ichthyic denizens of the Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth, gruff bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover discovers that Lovecraft, now an impoverished pulp author, has fictionalized those events and others from his dreams. As a result, Hoover forms a secret organization known as the Human Protection League to combat these otherworldly threats, and appoints Special Agent Nathan Brady to head up this new group, which reports directly to him.
Although Lovecraft’s unexpected death prevents him from joining the League, Brady begins to recruit the brightest and most talented agents available, including the oddly deformed Randolph Carter, who is in charge of the Dream Division.
Over the years, the dedicated members of the HPL battle supernatural threats all across the world and even from out beyond the stars and, in time, this group of unusual secret agents comes to be colloquially known as “The Lovecraft Squad.”
But now the Armies of the Night are rising. Such clandestine cults as the Olde Fellowes and the Esoteric Order of Dagon, who worship a group of eldritch deities called the Great Old Ones, are harnessing occult powers to open the doorways to the Dreamscape and other dimensions beyond space and time. Something big is coming—something that is already sowing the seeds of madness and chaos into the psyche of the world—and only the agents of the Human Protection League stand between this rising tide of evil and the enslavement and eventual destruction of the human race itself . . .