H. P. Lovecraft is dying to write. But the controversial horror writer cannot bring himself to finish his magnum opus, "The Shadow Out of Time", and it’s eating away at his stomach. Then over one long and shadowy Christmas night, Lovecraft receives three visitors at his tiny Rhode Island bedsit—his younger colleague Frank Belknap Long; then his estranged wife Sonia Greene; and finally the Crawling Chaos himself – the witch-cult king, the pharaonic Outer God, Nyarlathotep!

“The Failure of the Century", a blend of Lovecraftian Horror & A Christmas Carol, is the first play by award-winning Greek American writer & Hugo-award nominated editor Nick Mamatas. Nick is the author of instant cult classic Move Under Ground and the Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence. His latest novel, Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest, is an anticolonial sci-fi revision of Shakespeare’s play.

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