<h4>Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including the Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground, the Trotskyist Crowleyite noir novel Love is the Law, and the forthcoming I Am Providence. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and many other journals and anthologies. His collection of short Lovecraftian fiction, The Nickronomicon, was recently published by Innsmouth Free Press.</h4>

Nick Mamatas

The Real Mr. Difficult, or Why Cthulhu Threatens to Destroy the Canon, Self-Interested Literary Essayists, and the Universe Itself. Finally.

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including the Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground, the Trotskyist Crowleyite noir novel Love is the Law, and the forthcoming I Am Providence. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and many other journals and anthologies. His collection of short Lovecraftian fiction, The Nickronomicon, was recently published by Innsmouth Free Press.