A missing tech mogul…
…a jaded reporter…
…a damaged AI returned from a horrifying reality…
…and something lurking in the woods.
When journalist Den Secord is tasked with locating enigmatic tech guru Gregor Makarios, he soon finds his understanding of reality under threat. At the edge of the world, surrounded by primeval forests, in the paradisiacal environs of Gregor’s hi-tech hermitage, Den learns of the true nature of our Universe.
This is the way the world ends.
For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l’oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more, all featuring the same peculiar hue, a shifting pigment somewhere between purple and pink, the color of the saltmarsh orchid, a rare and indigenous flower.
H. P. Lovecraft is not usually thought of as a “family man,” but he was in fact very close to his mother (until her death in 1921) and especially to his two aunts, Lillian D. Clark and Annie E. P. Gamwell, with whom he shared living quarters for much of his adult life. This volume includes, for the first time, the complete and unabridged correspondence—amounting to more than 450,000 words—written by Lovecraft to his mother and aunts. It provides unprecedented glimpses into the most minute details of his daily life and is therefore unlike any other letters Lovecraft ever wrote.
Clark Ashton Smith was a poet, fantasist, sculptor, and painter. While mostly remembered today for his pioneering work in 1930s pulp magazines alongside H. P. Lovecraft, he is considered by many to be the last great Romantic poet and a unique visual artist with a large range of work in the outsider vein.
In 1996, S. T. Joshi's H. P. Lovecraft: A Life was published to universal acclaim. Joyce Carol Oates called it the "definitive" biography, and it won the British Fantasy Award and the Horror Write Sers Association Award. But that 1996 edition was abridged from the manuscript that Joshi wrote in 1993-95; in all, more than 150,000 words were cut for space reasons.
This pin is cosmically charged to radiate a protective glow when the sun sets for the evening. Be sure to equip this pin on dangerous expeditions or when venturing alone in the night.
This is the cover for my recent Sketch Book 11. He's a valiant demon that harnesses your the most creative parts of your imagination and harnesses it through your thoughts and out your fingertips. He's a good guy! Wear this shirt and feel the creative juices uncontrollably flow through you!
This is the poster image I created for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 2018. Here we have a slightly shy monster from the deep, looming over the sunken Hollywood Theatre in Portland. He kinda looks happy, right?
A retrospective of the work of illustrator and artist Mike Dubisch, this book displays an eclectic range of styles and mediums. Beginning with his teen years, this survey chronicles his raw and often outrageous early work and student art and moves on to professional commissions evoking a myriad of imagery—encompassing aliens, creatures, demons, dragons, faeries, mad scientists, mythology, sorcery, and vampires. Among the collection are drawings featured in Leading Edge, Realms of Fantasy, and Science Fiction Age magazines and Dungeons and Dragons.
FORBIDDEN FUTURES has never shied away from controversial subject matter and we tack recklessly into the riptide of controversy, trawling for taboos to smash. And if you think there’s nothing left out there that needs smashing, step into our orifice.
Blasting away every last trace of a familiar fantasy cliché, this one will remind you, as if for the first time, what weird feels like. Only in Forbidden Futures!