IN BOOKSTORES AUGUST 30, 2022
168 pages | $36.95 | 978-2-89694-564-1
Few people know that the city of Quebec hosted on three occasions in the early thirties a taciturn and discreet visitor, whose vision marked fantasy literature with a hot iron: Howard Philips Lovecraft. The man who gave birth to a formidable mythology populated by antediluvian creatures and inspired in his wake the greatest authors of the genre, wrote for himself a history of New France and a guide for walkers in the city “with a thousand ramparts “.
From this material, Christian Quesnel and Ariane Gélinas have painted a Parallel History of Quebec where the codes of Lovecraftian mythology dominate as terrifying masters. We are thus witnessing the meeting between the Great Old Ones of New France and the Great Old Ones teeming in the writings of the master of cosmic horror. A brilliant amalgamation of the wanderings of the writer in the “city of enigmas walled up behind the closed shutters of dreams” and a “Lovecraft-style” account of the feats of arms of Qartier or Loui Heyber, La cité oblique is intended to be a formidable and highly hallucinatory tribute to the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, but also a fascinating re-reading of the past.
Christian Quesnel has been working for several years on what should already be considered his magnum opus, set with a vertiginous text by Ariane Gélinas.
The book will also be offered in a second collector’s version, in limited edition, which will delight both Quesnel and Lovecraft enthusiasts.
TENTACULAR LAUNCHES!
The release of La cité oblique will give rise to two launches in the presence of the authors, Christian Quesnel and Ariane Gélinas.
August 30
at the Barberie in Quebec
in partnership with the Pantoute bookshop
(310, rue Saint-Roch Quebec (QC) Canada G1K 6S2)
August 31
at Bar Nestor in Montreal
(6289 Rue St-Hubert, Montreal, QC, H2S 2L9