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It's been awhile, but now information technology'south time for another Volume Embrace Smackdown! This fourth dimension around, we're pitting upcoming H.P. Lovecraft-themed books up against one another.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Pass creative judgment!

Tell the states:

• Which of these covers practice you similar the most?
• What works and what doesn't work with these covers?
• Do any of them brand you want to acquire more about and/or read the volume?

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The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker

(Talos | April 5, 2016 | Encompass illustration artist: Jeffrey Alan Honey.)

In the common cold leap of 1936, Arthor Crandle, downward-on-his luck and drastic for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, every bit a alive-in secretarial assistant/assistant for an unnamed shut-in.
He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an writer of agonizing, bizarre fiction. Wellness issues have bars him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows just as "Ech-Pi," refuses to come across him, communicating simply past letters left on a table outside his room. Before long the dwelling reveals other unnerving peculiarities. There is an ominous presence Crandle feels on the chief stairwell. Light shines out underneath the door of the writer's room, but is invisible from the street. It becomes increasingly clear there is something not right about the house or its occupant.

Haunting visions of a young daughter in a white nightgown wandering the walled-in garden behind the house motivate Crandle to investigate the circumstances of his employer's dark family unit history. Meanwhile, the unsettling aura of the house pulls him into a earth increasingly cut off from reality, into blackness depths, where an unspeakable secret lies waiting.

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(Running Press | May 24, 2016 | Embrace illustration artist: unknown)

A new terrifying drove inspired by the primary of horror H.P. Lovecraft. The Mammoth Volume of Cthulhu brings some of the best established and upcoming writers sharing their all-time Lovecraftian horror.

Despite what it says on the cover, the 25 stories listed for the table of contents include:

1. "A Clutch" by Laird Barron
2. "I Believe That We Will Win" past Nadia Bulkin
3. "The Sea Inside" by Amanda Downum
4. "Those Who Watch" by Ruthanna Emrys
5. "Deep Eden" by Richard Gavin
6. "In the Sacred Cave" by Lois H. Gresh
7. "In Syllables of Elder Seas" past Lisa L. Hannett
8. "It's Withal Road In the End" by Brian Hodge
9. "The Peddler's Tale, or, Isobel'southward Revenge" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
10. "Exterior the House, Watching for the Crows past John Langan
11. "Falcon-and-Sparrows" by Yoon Ha Lee
12. "In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro" by Usman Tanveer Malik
13. "The Cthulhu Navy Wife" past Sandra McDonald
14. "Caro in Carno" by Helen Marshall
15. "Legacy of Common salt" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
16. "Backbite" by Norman Partridge
17. "A Shadow of Thine Own Design" by W. H. Pugmire
18. "Variations on Lovecraftian Themes" past Veronica Schanoes
19. "An Open Letter to Mr. Edgar Allan Poe, from a Fervent Admirer" by Michael Shea
20. "Simply Across the Trailer Park" by John Shirley
21. "Alexandra Lost" by Simon Strantzas
22. "Umbilicus" by Damien Angelica Walters
23. "The Hereafter Eats Everything" past Don Webb
24. "I Do Non Count the Hours" past Michael Wehunt
25. "I Wearing apparel My Lover in Xanthous" by A.C. Wise

So, not certain if this is the final listing or an sometime lineup.

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(Harper | Feb 16, 2016 | Cover illustration artist: unknown)

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous piece of work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his begetter Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journeying to the estate of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned ane of Atticus'southward ancestors—they meet both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his male parent in chains, held prisoner by a secret conduce named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his ane hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan'southward—destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, ability, hope, and freedom that stretches beyond time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt u.s. today.

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The Age of Lovecraft edited by Carl H. Sederholm & Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

(Univ Of Minnesota Press | April 1, 2016 | Cover illustration artist: unknown)

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of "weird tales" who died in 1937 impoverished and relatively unknown, has become a 20-first-century star, cropping up in places both anticipated and unexpected. Authors, filmmakers, and shapers of popular civilisation like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Guillermo del Toro admit his influence; his fiction is central to the work of posthuman philosophers and cultural critics such as Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker; and Lovecraft'south creations accept accomplished unprecedented cultural ubiquity, even showing up on the blithe program S Park.

The Age of Lovecraft is the beginning sustained analysis of Lovecraft in relation to twenty-starting time-century critical theory and culture, delving into troubling aspects of his idea and writings. With contributions from scholars including Gothic expert David Punter, historian W. Scott Poole, musicologist Isabella van Elferen, and philosopher of the posthuman Patricia MacCormack, this broad-ranging book brings together thinkers from an array of disciplines to consider Lovecraft'due south contemporary cultural presence and its implications. Bookended by a preface from horror fiction luminary Ramsey Campbell and an extended interview with the central author of the New Weird, China Miéville, the collection addresses the question of "why Lovecraft, why now?" through a variety of approaches and angles.

A must for scholars, students, and theoretically inclined readers interested in Lovecraft, popular culture, and intellectual trends, The Age of Lovecraft offers the most thorough examination of Lovecraft's place in contemporary philosophy and critical theory to engagement as information technology seeks to shed light on the larger phenomenon of the dominance of weird fiction in the twenty-first century.

Contributors: Jessica George; Brian Johnson, Carleton U; James Kneale, U Higher London; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U, Cambridge; Jed Mayer, SUNY New Paltz; Cathay Miéville, Warwick U; W. Scott Poole, Higher of Charleston; David Punter, U of Bristol; David Simmons, Northampton U; Isabella van Elferen, Kingston U London.

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