as one of the leading scholars on H P Lovecraft a meticulous and indefatigable researcher on obscurer corners of the Providence dreamer s life But over the past several decades Faig has exhibited enviable skill at fiction especially fiction that draws upon his deep knowledge of Lovecraft and weird fiction In this volume we find an augmented edition of Faig s delightful Tales of the Lovecraft Collectors 1995 in which industrious scholars have unearthed surprising facts about Lovecraft s life and work such as the romance he had with a young Italian girl from Federal Hill Other stories in the volume continue to draw upon Lovecraft s Life and Death an ingenious hoax purporting to be a lost story by Lovecraft a hoax that took in many of the leading authorities of the day Innsmouth 1984 a revisiting of the setting of Lovecraft s baleful tale of regional horror The Shadow over Innsmouth and Gothic Studies in which fact and fiction are inextricably linked in a tale of a lost Gothic novel All in all Lovecraft s Pillow demonstrates both the cleverness and the effectiveness of Kenneth W Faig Jr. Lovecraft's pillow and other strange storiesgames in the realm of Lovecraftian and weird fiction Lovecraft s Pillow and Other Strange StoriesGranted this is probably most appreciated by those who are already very familiar with Lovecraft s work but the way the writer grounds most pieces in reality is little short of perfect Tales of the Lovecraft Collectors has each piece start in a way that seamlessly moves you into the fantastic part of the story and I would also highly recommend Lovecraft s Pillow with its thought provoking take on where stories come from English

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