The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft (1994)




London, England and San Francisco, CA.: Creation Books (book, anthology, 1st), 1994.
9.625" x 6.75" x 0.375", 182 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-871591-32-1.

The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft, an anthology of writings about or inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, edited by D. M. Mitchell, with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. First published in softcover by Creation Books (London, England) in 1994, reprinted in 1996. Shown is the first printing

William S. Burroughs contributes "Wind Die. You Die. We Die.", pp. 65-68.  Other contributors include J.G. Ballard, Michael Gira, Alan Moore, et al.




This was re-released in an expanded second edition in 2003, and the Burroughs contribution is at pp. 26-30 in this edition.
9.625" x 6.875" x 0.5", 221 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-84068-087-3.

Shoaf II.360 (for the 2nd printing)

Contents:

  • Ramsey Cambell:
    • introduction
    • "Potential" (prose)
  • D. M. Mitchell:
    • foreword
    • "Ward 23" (prose)
  • Grant Morrison: "Lovecraft in Heaven" (prose)
  • James Havoc & Mike Philbin: "Third Eye Butterfly" (comic)
  • Robert M. Price: "A Thousand Young" (prose)
  • Brian Lumley: "The NIght Sea-Maid Went Down" (prose)
  • Henry Wessels: "From this Swamp" (prose)
  • J. G. Ballard: "Prisoner of the Coral Deep" prose)
  • David Conway: "Black Static" (prose)
  • Dan Kellett: "Red Mass" (prose)
  • William S. Burroughs: "Wind Die. You Die. We Die." (prose)
  • John Coulthart & H. P. Lovecraft: "The Call of Cthulhu" (comic)
  • Simon Whitechapel: "Walpurgisnachtmusik" (prose)
  • D. F. Lewis: "Meltdown" (prose)
  • John Beal: "Beyond Reflection" (prose)
  • C. G. Brandrick & D. M. Mitchell: "This Exquisite Corpse" (prose)
  • Michael Gira: "Extracted from the Mouth of the Consumer, Rotting Pig" (prose)
  • Adèle Olivia Gladwell: "Hypothetical Materfamilias" (prose)
  • Don Webb: "The Sound of a Door Opening" (prose)
  • Alan Moore: "The Courtyard" (prose)
  • Rick Grimes: "Pills for Miss Betsy" (comic)
  • Peter Smith: "The Dreamers in Darkness" (prose)
  • Stephen Sennitt: "Sex-Invocation of the Great Old Ones (23 Nails)" (prose)
  • John Coulthart: art
  • Robert Taylor: art
  • Carina Van Der Snee: art

 Additional Contents in the Expanded Second Edition: 

  • Alan Moore: 
    • "Recognition"
    • "Zaman's Hill"
  • Grant Morrison: "Lovecraft in Heaven"
  • Ramsey Campbell: "Potential"
  • Phil Hine: "Cthulhu Madness"
  • Stephen Sennitt: "Reluctant Prophet"
  • John Beal: "Fractals, Stars and Nyarlathotep"
  • Frater Monstrum: "H. P. Lovecraft and The Loch Ness Monster"
  • John Coulthart: cover art

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