Strange Stones
by Edward Lee; Mary SanGiovanni
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Pub Date 21 Jan 2025 | Archive Date 3 Nov 2024
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Description
Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni’s novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.
Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed critic of H.P Lovecraft's works, is no stranger to making people mad. Giving convention presentations on the triteness and melodrama of Lovecraft's work pays the bills, though. Sometimes he even gets laid.
When he angers a beautiful but dangerous witch and devotee of Lovecraft's work, she casts a spell on him, sending him to a dimension where Lovecraft's works are very real—and very deadly. Everard must find a way through this alternate dimension to get home, before the worst of Lovecraft's horrors prove what a master of monstrosities he really was.
Edward lee’s humorous transgressive style meets Mary SanGiovanni’s literary touch to carve out the Lovecraftian dimensions that is Strange Stones.
Advance Praise
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR EDWARD LEE & MARY SANGIOVANNI
“Edward Lee holds a very special place in modern horror. He can and will gross you out or tweak your sex drive if he damn well feels like it—and he often does—Lee likes sex and guts and he’s not ashamed about it. He can out-splatter the most over-the-top splatterpunks, drive a story like a racehorse and he knows how to scare the hell out of you. But he can also slow you way down if he wants to and make you feel and think. And that’s what makes him unique. That he can do all this with such wit, intelligence and—dare I say it—sensitivity.” —Jack Ketchum, award-winning author of Off Season and "The Box"
"Mary SanGiovanni deftly mixes genres and voices, and her books are always creepy, unsettling, and thrilling." —Paul Tremblay, author of Cabin at the End of the World
Marketing Plan
- Book promotion along the east coast
- Promotions at book festivals such as Stoker Con, Brooklyn Book Festival, and the Miami Book Festival
- Collaborations and outreach to popular horror publications
- Early outreach and promotion of ARCS to reviewers and retailers
- Social media promotion on CLASH Books
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781960988416 |
| PRICE | US$16.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 140 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 792642
Strange, Odd, Weird, and just the right amount of unanswered questions to make you think well after the story has ended.
Adam A, Educator
This is such a great twist on the Lovecraft lore, taking a female rage perspective with a twist of Twilight Zone style lesson learning. The main character is extremely unlikeable and that might be a problem for a longer novel but for this novella it is perfect because the reader gets a bit of a thrill with each new torment Everard is subjected to in Lovecraft’s world.
I loved how things just kept getting worse and the horrors and monsters bigger and more cosmic and Old God, leading up to a crazy finale. Quick read, lots of fun, definite recommendation!
JustAnotherFinalGirlReview L, Reviewer
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.
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