Foreword by C. T. Joshi; Comments In. Price and C. Likhacheva . Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who did not publish a single book during his lifetime, became a beacon and a landmark of the whole genre, the idol of both the broad readership and refined intellectuals, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and his name became a household name. Borges himself admired his stories, in which the place of man is on the distant periphery of the universal scheme of things, and the forces of the supermundane instill in the souls of the careless a sacred horror. There are still annual books that develop and analyze Lovecraft's legacy, and Black Wings of Cthulhu is one of them. In this anthology compiled by C. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's most prominent authority on creativity, presents his inspired works of such masters of "anxious presence literature" as Caitlin R. Kiernan, John Shirley and others.