The great American fantasy and horror writer H.P. Lovecraft has written novels and short stories that have made him a leader in this genre. Apart from his purely literary work, H.P. Lovecraft also excelled in another kind of writing: epistolography. Countless letters of his have been published – all but one, the last one.
Gabriel Blackwell is a professor and author.
In his work, he combines mystery, thriller, and science fiction elements. He is particularly meticulous in his use of language as a tool for evoking emotion in readers. In his teaching of Creative Writing, he emphasizes the importance of words, advising students carefully on how to select and use them effectively in their texts.
Donald Tyson taught Creative Writing as a visiting professor at the University of Willamette (2011–2014) before joining the University of West Florida.
In addition to The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised Man: The Last Letter of H. P. Lovecraft (2013), his other works include Madeleine (2016), Critique of Pure Reason (2013), and Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer(2012).
This letter is found by chance in the basement of the hospital where Lovecraft died by Gabriel Blackwell, a contemporary American writer who had been an admirer of Lovecraft since his teenage years. The letter was written two days before Lovecraft’s death and is as revealing as it is terrifying.
The two authors come together in a unique way, both describing unspeakable horrors in two parallel times, revealing deeply hidden secrets and putting us into the world of fleeting human shadows through non-Euclidean dimensions that communicate with the worlds of the Great Old Ones.
How horrified can we be when the imaginary becomes entangled with the real? Let us allow ourselves to live the unique experience of Lovecraft and Blackwell. Then everything will look different…