Rainbringer: Zora Neale Hurston Against The Lovecraftian Mythos

Product Description

“The oaths of secrecy she [Zora Neale Hurston] swore, and the terrifying physical and emotional ordeals she endured…left their mark on her, and there were certain parts of her material which she never dared to reveal, even in scientific publications.” – Alan LomaxZORA! She traveled the 1930’s south alone with a loaded forty four and an unmatched desire to see and to know. She was at home in the supper clubs of New York City, back road juke joints, under ropes of Spanish moss, and dancing around the Vodoun peristyle. Her experiences brought us Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules And Men, Tell My Horse, and Jonah’s Gourd Vine. But between the lines she wrote lie the words unwritten, truths too fantastic to divulge….until now. LEAVES FLOATING IN A DREAM’S WAKE, BEYOND THE BLACK ARCADE. EKWENSU’S LULLABY. KING YELLER. GODS OF THE GRIM NATION. THE SHADOW IN THE CHAPEL OF EASE. BLACK WOMAN, WHITE CITY. THE DEATHLESS SNAKE. Eight weird and fantastic stories spanning the breadth of her amazing life. Eight times when she faced the nameless alien denizens of the outer darkness and didn’t blink. ZORA! Celebrated writer, groundbreaking anthropologist, Hoodoo initiate, footloose queen of the Harlem Renaissance, Mythos detective.

Review

“….Zora Neale Hurston is a protagoist that Erdelac imbues with such power and intelligence that she grabs you by the scruff of the neck and drags you into her complex and colourful world….An absolutely incredible achievement; the sign of an author at the very peak of his game as a composer of horror fiction.” – The Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer. 

 “…sings with vibrant courage and invention….
By embracing Lovecraft’s trope of the Other as threat, Erdelac manages to show that for the former slaves and freedom fighters who became the African American diaspora, Whiteness defines Otherness, a horror that pervades every crack in the edifice of their civilization from broken pavement to shattered souls. The mythic nature of these gods and demons demonstrates without a word spent making the analogy that there’s something far more terrifying than the cosmic indifference of loathsome gods: racism.
” – European Review of Speculative Fiction

“…if you’re a fan of anthropology, black history, monsters, and kick-ass women, Rainbringer: Zora Neale Hurston Against The Lovecraftian Mythos is for you.” – Night Springs Radio