April 12, 2024
Strange Eons by Robert Bloch (1979) SIGNED
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Whispers, Chapel Hill, 1978. John Stewart (illustrator). First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. Strange Eons is Robert Bloch's homage to his old mentor and correspondent, H.P. Lovecraft. Taking names and incidents mentioned in Lovecraft's tales, Bloch (best known for the novel Psycho) weaves a story surrounding three individuals who run afoul of the otherworldly monsters of the so-called Cthulhu Mythos. (In brief, the Cthulhu Mythos is the name given to a fragmentary mythology as reflected in most of Lovecraft's fiction; he posits an array of godlike beings so horrible and alien to human conception that running into one is likely, even if one is lucky enough to survive the encounter, to drive a person insane. Cthulhu, a giant being with the head of an octopus, is the most well-known of these creatures.)The title is taken from a famous Lovecraftian couplet: "That is not dead which can eternal lie/ and with strange eons, even death may die." The story begins when Albert Keith, an eccentric art collector, purchases the literally ghoulish painting described in Lovecraft's story, "Pickman's Model." From that point, he (and others) begin to deduce that Lovecraft's stories were not fiction, but thinly-disguised prophecies and warnings to the human race. As they investigate, the novel gives us a kind of Cliffs Notes overview of Lovecraft's
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