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The Lovecraft Squad: Rising (2020)

Created by Stephen Jones
(a) Pegasus Books, USA • tp • $20.95
ISBN 978-1-64313-322-5
The Lovecraft Squad: Rising (2020)
Cover by Douglas Klauba

From its new headquarters, the Human Protection League (colloquially known as “The Lovecraft Squad”) must regroup against the rising tide of supernatural threats from such clandestine cults as The Olde Fellowes and The Esoteric Order of Dagon, who worship a group of ancient deities known as the Great Old Ones. As their unholy acolytes prepare to resurrect these multi-dimensional gods from their imprisonment beneath the earth and beyond the stars, the universe hovers on the brink of an Eldritch War such as it has never known before. The only thing that may stand between victory or the enslavement and eventual destruction of the human race itself is a man out of his own time-a writer, a visionary, a dreamer on the night-side . . .

THE STORY SO FAR . . .  
PROLOGUE: THE DEVILS IN THE WHITE CITY Reggie Oliver
THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS Lisa Morton
THE THING ABOUT CATS Peter Atkins
THE FOUR CHURCHES John Llewellyn Probert
HASTUR LA VISTA, BABY! Adrian Cole and Mike Chinn
THE HOUSE OF THE CRYSTAL STAIRCASE Thana Niveau
A FUN GUY FROM YUGGOTH Michael Marshall Smith
THE NINTH PLANET Stephen Baxter
THE HAUNTERS OF THE DARK AFFAIR Steve Rasnic Tem
OUT OF TIME Angela Slatter
THE FINAL SACRIFICE Brian Hodge
EPILOGUE: OUT OF THE AEONS John Llewellyn Probert
LOST BOYS Jo Fletcher
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS