Douglas Wynne

The Winchester House: a rambling Victorian mansion shrouded in secrecy and speculation. Built by the reclusive heiress of a rifle fortune with endless, labyrinthine additions, rumors swirl of vengeful spirits, occult mysteries, and a temple of resurrection. But when Father Diego Montero hears the dying confession of a carpenter who worked there, he discovers an even darker tale. It is the story of a mother who raised a ghost, of a sorceress who built a castle to house her dead daughter's spirit, and of a blood pact forged with a dark power. Drawn into the mystery at the heart of the notorious house, Father Diego is wholly unprepared for what he discovers. To defend against a force that threatens to wreak havoc on the world at large, he must rely on his own secret occult knowledge and risk expulsion from the Church. But with his personal demons lurking in the shadows, can he save Winchester House and its occupants from the evil that infuses it, or will it crumble under the weight of its dark history?

Catherine Littlefield was raised in a seaside New England town haunted by whispers of arcane lore that remained tantalizingly out of reach to a daughter of well-to-do Baptists. But when her studies at Barnard College in New York lead to an encounter with a secret society, she is offered access to the knowledge she has always sought...if she can pass a test. Dispatched to California to infiltrate the occult world of a rival magician-a pioneering rocket scientist with ties to the apocalyptic Starry Wisdom Church-Catherine soon discovers that she's not the only one spying on Jack Parsons. A fledgling government agency devoted to the investigation of weird science in the aftermath of World War II has assigned a pair of hard-nosed agents to gather information on her target, whose experiments with sex magic and eldritch artifacts are approaching a cosmic crescendo. Drawn into the volatile chemistry of Jack's inner circle and tempted with knowledge and power, Catherine must determine what's at stake for a world threatened by dark forces and decide where her true loyalties lie. Featuring 25 pages of black-and-white illustrations by Mat Fitzsimmons

The Lovecraft eZine is a magazine of Weird Fiction and Lovecraftian Horror, with over 200,000 readers. Thanks for reading This issue: "Cthulhu Does Stuff," a comic by by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson "The Spaces Between," by Pete Rawlik "The Voyager," by Douglas Wynne "Endure Within a Dying Frame," by Michael Griffin "Catch Me If You Can," by Marcus Grimm "DreamShock," by Benjamin Knox & Toby Bennett "The Secret Goatman Spookshow," by Jonathan Raab "Winter Things," by Raven Daemorgan "Further," by F. J. Bergmann