Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni’s novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.

Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed critic of H.P Lovecraft's works, is no stranger to making people mad. Giving convention presentations on the triteness and melodrama of Lovecraft's work pays the bills, though. Sometimes he even gets laid. 

When he angers a beautiful but dangerous witch and devotee of Lovecraft's work, she casts a spell on him, sending him to a dimension where Lovecraft's works are very real—and very deadly. Everard must find a way through this alternate dimension to get home, before the worst of Lovecraft's horrors prove what a master of monstrosities he really was.

Edward lee’s humorous transgressive style meets Mary SanGiovanni’s literary touch to carve out the Lovecraftian dimensions that is Strange Stones.

PRAISE FOR EDWARD LEE & MARY SANGIOVANNI

“Edward Lee holds a very special place in modern horror. He can and will gross you out or tweak your sex drive if he damn well feels like it—and he often does—Lee likes sex and guts and he’s not ashamed about it. He can out-splatter the most over-the-top splatterpunks, drive a story like a racehorse and he knows how to scare the hell out of you. But he can also slow you way down if he wants to and make you feel and think. And that’s what makes him unique. That he can do all this with such wit, intelligence and—dare I say it—sensitivity.” —Jack Ketchum, award-winning author of OFF SEASON and "The Box"

"Mary SanGiovanni deftly mixes genres and voices, and her books are always creepy, unsettling, and thrilling." —Paul Tremblay, author of Cabin at the End of the World

Edward Lee is the author of over 50 horror, fantasy, and sci-fi novels, and dozens of short stories. He has also had comic scripts published by DC Comics, Verotik Inc., and Cemetery Dance. Many of his novels have been reprinted in Germany, Poland, Japan, Italy, Russia, Spain and other countries. He is a Bram Stoker Award Nominee; his Lovecraftian novel Innswich Horror won the 2010 Vincent Price Award for Best Foreign Book (Austria), his novel White Trash Gothic won the 2018 Splatterpunk Award for Best Extreme Horror Novel, and his collaborative novella Header 3 (with Ryan Harding) won for Best Extreme Novella. In 2020 Lee won the J.F. Gonzales Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009, the movie version of his novella Header was released by Synapse Films and is available now on Tubi; several of his novels are currently under option. Lee is a U.S. Army veteran and lives in Seminole, Florida.

Mary SanGiovanni is an award-winning American horror and thriller writer of nearly two dozen novels and novellas, including her most recent media tie-in novel for the Alien franchise, Enemy of My Enemy, her fan-favorite Kathy Ryan series, and For Emmy, soon to me made into a film. She has also written short stories, comics for Marvel and DC, and non-fiction. Her work has been translated internationally. She has a Masters degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, Pittsburgh. She has the distinction of being one of the first women to speak about writing at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA, and offers talks and workshops on writing around the country. Born and raised in New Jersey, she currently resides in Pennsylvania.

OFFICIAL RELEASE 01.21.2025

ISBN: 9781960988416