Howard Phillips Lovecraft is a young writer of penny-a-word pulps in Providence, Rhode Island who suddenly finds himself on the brink of madness. His psychotic father died in an asylum, his catatonic mother is a current patient, and young Howard fears he’s next. When a strangely ominous book goes on display at the Brown University library bizarre murders begin to plague the city and Howard comes to believe he’s somehow responsible.

Now, Lovecraft is the only one who can stop the nightmares given terrible life by his inner demons and a curse that unleashes them upon the hapless world each night.