The X-Rated Lovecraft Novel

Here's a curious work coming this spring from the mind of author Edward Lee: a Lovecraftian novella ostensibly written by H.P. Lovecraft--with a very adult theme. Of course, the Puritanical Lovecraft never wrote any such thing. Rather, Trolley No. 1852 by Lee imaginatively explodes Lovecraft's story fragment "The Thing in the Moonlight." Some Lovecraftians--understandably--will recoil in fright at the audacity and content of this work. However, if it can be pulled off cleverly and somewhat tastefully (keeping gore and erotica down to something less than stomach turning levels), it may turn out to be a one-of-a-kind Lovecraftian concoction. Whatever the final outcome, count on this project to raise the eyebrows of at least a few critics and Lovecraft fans, despite its $50.00 price tag and extremely limited print run of 300 copies.

Further information on ordering the book can be found via Horror-Mall here, which also lists this fuller description of Lee's pending work:

ALL ABOARD TROLLEY NO. 1852

Through the midnight bowels of New York City, the decrepit trolley clatters on, its single yellow headlight illumining one desolate alley and squalid, trash-strewn street after the next, through crumbling ghettos and betwixt drab skyscrapers and labyrinthine edifices–indeed, the very guts of the Depression-ravaged metropolis. The Trolley admits only a special sort of rider, and takes them to a very select destination...

THE 1852 CLUB

What is the meaning behind the cryptic number, and what is the ghastly truth behind the club’s voluptuous madam? For, yes, the 1852 Club is a bordello of the most macabre discrimination. Destitute academician Morgan Phillips will learn of all the club’s pestiferous secrets but not before he is first subjected to unnameable acts degradation and abuse, and is then thrown body and soul into a morass of erotic abandon, sexual perversion, and gut-churning, brain-warping, inter-dimensional carnality so unspeakable it can scarcely be described...

Join horror veteran Edward Lee in this bold homage to his favorite horror author: H.P. Lovecraft. Herein, Lee boldly converts HPL’s obscure fragment “The Thing in the Moonlight” into a full-fledged novella, incorporating as best he can the Master’s rich, singular style and vision, while integrating some of his own lurid tricks and treats...

This is a limited edition hardcover of only 300 signed and numbered copies.

-Grim Blogger