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Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni's novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations. Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed critic of H.P Lovecraft's works, is no stranger to... Read More
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Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni's novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.

Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed critic of H.P Lovecraft's works, is no stranger to making people mad. Giving convention presentations on the triteness and melodrama of Lovecraft's work pays the bills, though. Sometimes he even gets laid.

When he angers a beautiful but dangerous witch and devotee of Lovecraft's work, she casts a spell on him, sending him to a dimension where Lovecraft's works are very real and very deadly. Everard must find a way through this alternate dimension to get home, before the worst of Lovecraft's horrors prove what a master of monstrosities he really was.

Edward Lee's humorous transgressive style meets Mary SanGiovanni's literary touch to carve out the Lovecraftian dimensions that is Strange Stones.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781960988416

Publisher: Clash Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 March 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Clash Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 140

About the Author

Edward Lee is the author of over 50 horror, fantasy, and sci-fi novels, and dozens of short stories. He has also had comic scripts published by DC Comics, Verotik Inc., and Cemetery Dance. Many of his novels have been reprinted in Germany, Poland, Japan, Italy, Russia, Spain and other countries. He is a Bram Stoker Award Nominee; his Lovecraftian novel Innswich Horrorwon the 2010 Vincent Price Award for Best Foreign Book (Austria), his novel White Trash Gothic won the 2018 Splatterpunk Award for Best Extreme Horror Novel, and his collaborative novella Header 3 (with Ryan Harding) won for Best Extreme Novella. In 2020 Lee won the J.F. Gonzales Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009, the movie version of his novella Header was released by Synapse Films and is available now on Tubi; several of his novels are currently under option. Lee is a U.S. Army veteran and lives in Seminole, Florida.

Mary SanGiovanni is an award-winning American horror and thriller writer of nearly two dozen novels and novellas, including her most recent media tie-in novel for the Alien franchise, Enemy of My Enemy, her fan-favorite Kathy Ryan series, and For Emmy, soon to me made into a film.She has also written short stories, comics for Marvel and DC, and non-fiction.Her work has been translated internationally.She has a Masters degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, Pittsburgh.She has the distinction of being one of the first women to speak about writing at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA, and offers talks and workshops on writing around the country.Born and raised in New Jersey, she currently resides in Pennsylvania.

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