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THE STARRY WISDOM - contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness - many inspired directly by the life and writings of H.P. Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes in their own bizarre sub-texts.

Here the primal beings of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stalk a post-modern landscape of social collapse, ethnic cleansing, genetic engineering and nuclear devastation - nightmare prophecies from his pulp pages which have now come chillingly true.

In THE STARRY WISDOM, the undercurrents of sexual and ecological displacement which powered Lovecraft's work have finally been laid bare, providing this maligned genius with a long-overdue retrospective and revealing him to be a true prophet of the 20th century.

Contents:

• 7 - Introduction (The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft) - (1994) - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 9 - Foreword (The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft) - (1994) - essay by D. M. Mitchell
• 13 - Lovecraft in Heaven - (1994) - shortstory by Grant Morrison
• 19 - Third Eye Butterfly - (1994) - shortfiction by James Havoc and Mike Philbin
• 24 - A Thousand Young - (1989) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
• 33 - The Night Sea-Maid Went Down - (1971) - shortstory by Brian Lumley
• 40 - From This Swamp - (1994) - shortstory by Henry Wessells
• 43 - Prisoner of the Coral Deep - (1964) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• 47 - Black Static - (1994) - novelette by David Conway
• 61 - Red Mass - (1994) - shortstory by Dan Kellett
• 65 - Wind Die You Die We Die - (1968) - shortstory by William S. Burroughs
• 69 - The Call of Cthulhu - (1994) - shortstory by John Coulthart and H. P. Lovecraft
• 101 - Potential - (1973) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• 107 - Walpurgisnachtmusik - (1994) - shortstory by Simon Whitechapel
• 115 - Meltdown - (1994) - shortstory by D. F. Lewis
• 121 - Beyond Reflection - (1990) - shortstory by John Beal
• 124 - This Exquisite Corpse - (1994) - shortfiction by C. G. Brandrick and D. M. Mitchell
• 127 - Extracted from the Mouth of the Consumer, Rotting Pig - (1994) - shortstory by Michael Gira
• 133 - Hypothetical Materfamilias - (1994) - shortstory by Adele Olivia Gladwell
• 141 - The Sound of a Door Opening - (1993) - shortstory by Don Webb
• 147 - The Courtyard - (1994) - shortstory by Alan Moore
• 155 - Pills for Miss Betsy - (1994) - shortfiction by Rick Grimes
• 162 - The Dreamers in Darkness - (1993) - shortstory by Peter Smith
• 166 - Sex-Invocation of the Great Old Ones (23 Nails) - (1994) - poem by Stephen Sennitt
• 168 - Ward 23 - (1994) - shortstory by D. M. Mitchell
• 176 - About the Contributors (The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft) - (1994) - essay by uncredited

SONGS OF THE BLACK WURM GISM: CULT, OCEANIC, INSECT, PORN; A VORTEX OF COSMIC MAYHEM STALKED BY RAVENING LYSERGIC ENTITIES. A POST-HUMAN PSYCHEDELIC SEIZURE OF LOVECRAFTIAN TEXT, ART AND FRAGMENTS.

SONGS OF THE BLACK WÃ RM GISM picks up where the acclaimed anthology THE STARRY WISDOM left off and goes beyond way beyond! what H.P. Lovecraft dared to show. Editor D.M. Mitchell presents an illustrated brainstorm of visceral deep-sea dream currents, aberrant trans-species sex visions, and frenzied ophidian entropy. Illustrated throughout.

Contributors include: ALAN MOORE, GRANT MORRISON, david britton, ian miller, john beal, david conway, kenji siratori, herzan chimera, james havoc, JOHN COULTHART, D.M. MITCHELL, reza negarastani, & many others