About the book: 2020 / Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who did not publish a single book during his lifetime, became a beacon and guide of an entire genre, an idol both the general reading masses and refined intellectuals, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and his very name has become a household name. Borges himself admired his stories, in which the place of man is on the distant periphery of the universal scheme of things, and supermundane forces instill sacred horror in the souls of the unwary. Until now, books developing and analyzing Lovecraft’s legacy are published annually, and “The Black Wings of Cthulhu” is one of them. This anthology, compiled by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on Lovecraft, features works inspired by him by such masters of the "literature of unsettling presence" as Caitlin R. Kiernan, John Shirley, and others..