Albert Keith discovers a magnificent painting of a feasting ghoul, buys it, and is drawn inexorably into a world of horror and death. He and his friend, Simon Waverly, slowly realize that the fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft may not be imaginative writings at all, but have hideous counterparts in the real world; that Lovecraft's stories were based on fact; that his message is a warning to mankind! Will mankind be able to stop the minions of Cthulhu, the Great Old Ones? If not, it spells doom for the world as we know it....

Robert Bloch (1917-1994) was a friend and admirer of Lovecraft, and in his Strange Eons (1978), originally published as a limited edition and long out of print, he contributes his own notable entry to the Lovecraftian Mythos. This new edition includes an introduction by David J. Schow.