Homage to Lovecraft in a a very good wizard of oz style adventure for out protagonist, although instead of a teenage girl just trying to get home, we have a middle aged male literary professor. Instead of ruby slippers anc a path down the Yellow Brick Road to the magical city of Oz, Edward Lee takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey, story by story, venturing through various hellish Lovecraftian settings in desperate attempts to locate gemstones with the potential to drive you mad and the chance to traverse across the multiverses and jump into alternate Lovecraftian universes in an attempt to escape back to reality.