While I’m not a big a Lovecraft fan as many of my contemporaries and friends, the “style” of Lovecraft’s horror - the idea of things just beyond our world that are so beyond our comprehension we can’t even grasp their existence - appeals to me. I have written a number of “Lovecraftian” stories over the years, several of them appear in this volume - The Fall of the House of Escher is one, The Call of Farther Shores is another. This is one of my favorites.

Since it was reprinted online by Apex Online - and it is still in their archive - I’m providing the link here for your reading pleasure.  It was first printed in THE GOSSAMER EYE - which I wrote 1/3 of - and which won the Bram Stoker Award for poetry.  Some of what we included was NOT poetry, as you will see.

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