A chronicle of the life, work and mind of influential weird tale author H. P. Lovecraft, as told by many of today's luminaries of dark fantasy including John Carpenter (The Thing), Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Neil Gaiman (Coraline), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), Caitlin R. Kiernan ("Daughter of Hounds") and Peter Straub ("Ghost Story").