With this volume of sixteen stories (four of them unpublished), Ann K. Schwader establishes herself as a leading voice in Lovecraftian fiction, uniting Lovecraft's sense of place and cosmic vision with a delicacy of character portrayal and carefully crafted prose that is all her own. is the author of the poetry volumes (2001), (2007), and the omnibus (2011). Her earlier prose fiction was collected in the volume (2003).