H.P. Lovecraft 5: The Music of Erich Zann
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Music of Erich Zann American astronomer Max Finn can only find rooms at a rundown rooming house on the Rue D'Auseil while attending a symposium in Paris. Finn does not have the time or inclination to get to know his fellow boarders¸ but one sad gentleman¸ an old¸ mute street musician named Erich Zann¸ gets his attention. Each night when Zann comes home¸ the old man plays haunting melodies on his violins. Melodies that plague Finn's dreams at night and give him nightmares about an impossible cosmic land ruled by Nyarlathotep¸ also known as The Crawling Chaos¸ the messenger of the elder gods. Zann first played as a prisoner in a German concentration camp¸ used by the mute Jew to call on Nyarlathotep to destroy the camp and its very memory¸ with Zann's soul the price for the messenger's aid. A price Zann knows Nyarlathotep will soon come to collect. Overview Along with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King¸ Howard Phillips Lovecraft is considered one of America's most innovative and popular American horror writers. The master of the weird tale during the first decades of the 20 th Century until his premature death in 1937¸ Lovecraft's distinctive style and canon of work has influenced as many authors as the stories of Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett. Lovecraft's earliest published work¸ Herbert West: Re-Animator ¸ was turned into the 1985 cult classic film¸ Reanimator.