{"product_id":"9780957627178","title":"Cthulhu Lies Dreaming: Twenty-three Tales of the Weird and Cosmic","description":"\"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.\"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern science, with its experts and specialities, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe truth is indeed out there - and it hungers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostwoods Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49893874335984,"sku":"9780957627178","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780957627178","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}