Exciting Crowdfunding Campaign for New Lovecraft Book

May 19, 2015 - PRLog -- The Project
Imagine if the fantastic horrors conceived by H.P. Lovecraft were less fiction than acts of bearing witness to  great and terrible cosmic truths. Imagine if Lovecraft, as the duly authorized "Recorder" selected by infernal authorities of which Lovecraft himself has only little knowledge, kept a record of the actual events to which he found himself quite unwillingly exposed.  Then imagine if a young editor and scholar, steeped in Lovecraftian knowledge, found these notes and edited them for publication in the year 2015.

There you have the basis for The Secret Life of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft, "edited" by W.J. Renehan (biography below).

Our ambition right now is to pre-sell both the eBook and paper editions of the work in order to help fund the final prep, publishing, and distribution of both editions. In return for you buying "ahead of the curve," we're offering a heartfelt acknowledgment within the book itself.

Find the project link here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-secret-life-of-h-p...

How The Book Begins ...

Found among the papers of H.P. Lovecraft ...

Whoever is reading this, I must beg your discretion regarding the facts contained herein, for I fear their dissemination would only serve to generate widespread panic and madness.

The tale is my own, of course, and yet it is so much more. It is man’s—the black truths that reside within the labyrinthine depths of his ancient, primeval brain; the terrors beyond the scope of measure, whose mere mention induces psychosis and the search for oblivion.

Perhaps you will laugh, for if I am known at all in your time it will most surely be as a spinner of pulp fictions, only a hair’s breadth removed from the scribblers of the old Penny Dreadfuls. But I have no complaint with my lot, as I have been privy to sights and wonders beyond the ken of man. I did not ask for such gifts, and a great many I would gladly return, but I have come to reconcile my fear and wonder—the two merging to produce a type of terrible awe.

Are you a searcher like myself, I wonder? Do you have a love of the night sky? The ancient ruin? The unquiet grave? Are you discontented with a world dissected by science, nailed down by theories and figures, bled of possibility? If so, then perhaps you are fated to know the truth. I feel it is my duty to warn you, however; your life will be forever altered by the reading of this account. From here there is no going back. Nietzsche was quite right when he said: “When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” You will have tapped into a new current, cursed and blessed both to see the world behind the world—or rather the world for what it truly is.

Do you dare to explore the unplumbed, atavistic depths of the primitive brain? To return to a more base, superstitious form of consciousness? To look upon the night sky with new eyes and see it not as a dead end but rather as a doorstep?

Should you be so inclined, I recommend you steel yourself for what lies beyond. Be forewarned.

About the "Editor"
W.J. Renehan's books include The Art of Darkness: Meditations On the Effect of Horror Fiction and the novella Night's Harbor.

Of The Art of Darkness, leading Lovecraft scholar Robert Waugh (author of The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H.P. Lovecraft and Monster of Voices: Speaking for H.P. Lovecraft) says: "W. J. Renehan has written a comprehensive and concise account of the various theories of Horror, a difficult task though he lets none of the difficulty show, and thus this is a fine introduction to the field. But his book is more than theory; it also shares with the reader the weird pleasure we take in the field."

As regards Night's Harbor, critically-acclaimed horror author Michael Bray declares it "a meticulously crafted novella of suspense filled terror. Beautifully paced and wonderfully vivid, the story is as chilling as it is brutal." William Cook, author ofBlood Related, describes the novel as: "Intelligent, erudite and well-written, Night’s Harbor is an exciting and down-right scary new work of Vampire fiction that will not be ignored.” Joseph Sale, author of The Darkest Touch, comments: "Night's Harbor reads like a sequence of disturbing dreams: each hallucination more frightening and maddening than the last." And techno-horror superstar Shane Stadler, author of the bestseller Exoskeleton, says: "This captivating vampire novella is not for the squeamish and will have you thinking twice about inviting anyone into your home."

When not working on his own writing, Renehan serves as editor-in-chief of Dark Hall Press, a small but highly respected publisher of horror fiction.