Susie Philips Lovecraft has always encouraged her young son Howard’s creativity, despite how his dark and peculiar creations unsettle her. But one autumn night, she discovers that his creations might not manifest from his imagination alone, and these strange creatures may have dubious intentions toward the lad.

The fiction of H.P. Lovecraft has inspired generations of horror writers and readers, but what dreams and eldritch realities inspired this dreamer of Providence? This first in a series lights a candle in those shadows that haunted one of horror literature’s sages.