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, the most prominent authority on the work of Lovecraft, presents the works of such masters of “literature of alarming presence” inspired by him, such as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R . Kiernan, Michael Shea, Michael Marshall Smith et al.