A jazzman faces a phantom from the Dreamlands.A student willing to do anything to avoid Vietnam learns just how high the price for evading the draft can be.The world's greatest fencer duels a terror from the stars.Hezekiah, scion of the infamous Whateley clan, attempts to crowdfund the rise of Cthulhu.An astronaut can save humanity, but only by committing genocide against an innocent alien race.The Hep Cats of Ulthar and Other Lovecraftian Tales collects thirteen of Richard Lee Byers's best stories of cosmic horror. They range from the Middle Ages to H. P. Lovecraft's own 1920's New England to the future and include three never before published, the title novelette and two more.