 Indeed, the very notion of writing a ""pastiche"" that does little but rework Lovecraft's own themes and ideas have now become "passé" in serious weird writing".Three of the stories are direct or indirect sequels to Lovecraft's story "Pickman's Model" and Lovecraft himself appears as a character in several tales.Only one story, Stanley C. Sargent's "The Black Brat of Dunwich" is a reprint, all other stories are original to this anthology.