It doesn't get any more weird-boiled than this.” - Stephen Graham Jones, author of Growing Up Dead in Texas “In the cosmic darkness between Sam Spade and Dirk Gently, there's a nest of tentacles. Carter & Lovecraft is a sleek, addicting horror novel that gleefully inverts and contradicts Mythos tropes.” - Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All His detective protagonist is plunged into the heart of a bloody mystery where every step forward brings him closer to doom, and where every revelation peels away the familiar, the known, and finally, all that is rational. “Layer by layer, Howard deconstructs the Lovecraftian universe. Paul Wilson, author of the Repairman Jack series, on Carter & Lovecraft

Howard gets it right and offers a delightfully original (and non-Euclidean) twist on the mythos and H.P. You want to shake the author and shout, 'Weren't you paying attention?' Jonathan L. “So much Lovecraftian fiction misses the point. but Jonathan L.).” - Brian Lumley, author of Necroscope, on Carter & Lovecraft I'll be keeping my eyes open for more novels from Mr. Lovecraft 's tales were more than mere fictions, and so is this novel-it's a very good fiction. “Something new under Lovecraft's leering stars. Howard knows how to show his readers a wickedly good time.” - Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Dead Ringers on Carter & Lovecraft “ Carter & Lovecraft is a Pandora's Box loaded with all of the wonderfully twisted stuff I love, including a two-fisted homicide cop turned P.I., warped realities, a mysterious bookstore, the Cthulhu mythos, a dash of romance, and creepy fish-men. Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted, inheritance. As Carter reluctantly investigates, he discovers that H. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him.įirst he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life.

Howard knows how to show his readers a wickedly good time.' -Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author Dead Ringersĭaniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case-the hunt for a serial killer-went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. 'Carter & Lovecraft is a Pandora's box loaded with all the wonderfully twisted stuff I love, including a two-fisted homicide cop turned PI, warped realities, a mysterious bookstore, the Cthulhu mythos, a dash of romance, and creepy fish-men.

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