{"product_id":"2940158415074","title":"Cthulhu Lies Dreaming","description":"\"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe classic American horror author H. P. Lovecraft coined the term weird fiction in the 1920s. Even today, in our rational world of wonder, his legacy of cosmic horror slumbers on. Deep in the recesses of our unconscious minds, we suspect it to be the truth that we begin to glance the shape of true reality, and it is not to our liking. Not at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern science, with its experts and specialties, is a fragmentary thing. In this, it reflects the human mind. We keep our thoughts in boxes, broken into digestible shards. It is safer. Cosmic horror warns us that what we fondly imagine to be reality is just a thin skin of light and substance over endless gulfs of insanity. Gather too much knowledge, make the wrong connections, and the truth can no longer be denied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe amazing tales lovingly collected in Cthulhu Lies Dreaming are fragments of that truth. Treat them with the caution that they deserve. Each will offer you glimpses behind the skin of the world, leading you closer and closer to the edge of the abyss. Knowledge may bring wisdom, but it also offers far darker gifts to the curious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe truth is indeed out there and it hungers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR CTHULHU LIES DREAMING\u003cbr\u003e\"Impudent, profane, pure and dark\" -- Dennis Detwiller, creator of Delta Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A marvelous and unnerving anthology. Each author offers a meditation on the transforming power of Cthulhu s dreaming on the waking world; for the characters in the story and for me the distinction between reality and nightmare became blurred. Dark delights await the readers of these 23 vividly descriptive Lovecraftian stories. Urgently recommended.\" -- Matthew Carpenter, Editor of A Lonely and Curious Country","brand":"Ghostwoods Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076744429808,"sku":"2940158415074","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158415074_p0.jpg?v=1764140959","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158415074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}