As kindly sent to me by a Facebook friend, I had never noticed that one of the small and lovely books in the Stuart Gordon pre-order bundle, Tales From The Gordon Grimoire, has this excerpt on the very first page. Courtesy of an interview with . . . me.
10/5/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please. Dayton Ghosts & Legends signing tomorrow night!
The twisted imagination of H.P. Lovecraft gave literature many terrors beyond human reckoning. We would be less than insects to the horrors residing here in darkness or from the farthest reaches of space. His works have inspired many writers since. These 2 and many other frightening fictions are here now!
Virgil Finlay illustration for the 1919 H.P. Lovecraft story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" for it's reprint appearance in the March, 1938 issue of Weird Tales. It was later inscribed and gifted to another giant, "To A. Merritt, a master of fantasy. From Virgil Finlay"