Cover artwork by Robert H. Knox.
In recent years Donald Tyson has emerged as a leading author of
Lovecraftian fiction, his novels and tales drawing upon his deep
knowledge of esoteric and occult philosophy and infused with his
powerful imagination. In this volume, two substantial novellas are
presented.
In “The Lovecraft Coven,” Lovecraft wakes up in an insane asylum at
Providence almost eighty years after his own death, trapped in the body
of a man he never knew and hunted by shadow walkers determined to
destroy him. His sole hope is to enter the fictional world he created
for his short stories and find the Necronomicon, which has been stolen from Miskatonic University. Clues to the book’s location are
hidden in Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth, and Kingsport. Only by tracking
the book across the fantastic landscape of his own imagination can he
free himself from the prison of the future.
“Iron Chain” tells of a survivalist prepper who abandons the big city
for a farm in rural Nova Scotia, where he plans to wait out the chaotic
events of the Great Alignment foretold in ancient prophecies. The farm
is not quite what it seems. There is something odd about his neighbor,
and the ravens never stop watching him. Why has a heavy anchor chain of
black iron been buried beneath the field by the house? Why is the barn
attached to a windmill so ancient, its origins have been forgotten? He
begins to suspect that his presence on the farm is not chance, but part
of some larger cosmic pattern, and that he may have a predestined role
to play in the coming cataclysm.
