23 contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness - many inspired directly by the thoughts and writings of H P Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes, perhaps unwittingly, 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. 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. The Starry Wisdom includes a host of brand new, previously unpublished prose and graphic works, plus select reprints which are now shown in a brand new light, forming a fascinating document which will appeal not only to readers of H P Lovecraft, but to all lovers of innovative art and literature in the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.CONTENTS and "Lovecraft in Heaven and " by Grant Morrison and "Third Eye Butterfly and " by James Havoc and Mike Philbin and "A Thousand Young and " by Robert M. Price and "The Night Sea-Maid Went Down and " by Brian Lumley and "From this Swamp and " by Henry Wessels and "Prisoner of the Coral Deep and " by J. G. Ballard and "Black Static and " by David Conway and "Red Mass and " by Dan Kellett and "Wind Die. You Die. We Die and " by William S. Burroughs and "The Call of Cthulhu and " by John Coulthart and u0026 H. P. Lovecraft and "Potential and " by Ramsey Campbell and "Walpurgisnachtmusik and " by Simon Whitechapel and "Meltdown and " by D. F. Lewis and "Beyond Reflection and " by John Beal and "This Exquisite Corpse and " by C. G. Brandrick and u0026 D. M. Mitchell and "Extracted from the Mouth of the Consumer, Rotting Pig and " by Michael Gira and "Hypothetical Materfamilias and " by Adele O. Gladwell and "The Sound of a Door Opening and " by Don Webb and "The Courtyard and " by Alan Moore and "The Dreamers in Darkness and " by Peter Smith and "Pills for Miss Betsy and " by Rick Grimes and "23 Nails and " by Stephen Sennitt and "Ward 23 and " by D. M. Mitchell