"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life..."
A young writer obsessed with the occult discovers discovers an ancient stone artifact hidden within a long-abandoned church. As he gazes into the stone's shimmering depths, the terrifying truth is revealed: a monstrous entity lurks in the shadows waiting to be summoned, and the lights of the city are all that stand between humanity and a cosmic terror that hunts in the dark.
Though virtually unknown and financially unsuccessful during his lifetime,
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is now regarded as one of the most influential 20th-century writers of supernatural horror fiction. Widely credited with inventing the "cosmic horror" genre—fiction that explores humanity's insignificance in the face of vast, unknowable cosmic forces—he also created the "Cthulhu Mythos", a shared universe of ancient alien beings and forbidden knowledge that has influenced generations of horror and science fiction writers
