Ever since I finished reading Lovecraft’s original stories I’ve been voracious for more. Most of all, I wanted to come closer to that ultimate doom that he was leading to. There have been some fine expansions in which the great old ones are running amok on Earth but they never felt like true Lovecraftian stories. This collection brings us close to the brink with a well written text and an excellent plot. Most importantly, it is written as a short anthology of interconnected tales leading to the overarching plot. This is the first Lovecraftian novel I’ve read following this paradigm and it hit me like a ton of bricks that it was the perfect vehicle to carry out the adventure of the genre. After all, the entire Cthulhu mythos proper was written in short story format.