The Final Parchment

The Final Parchment: A Novel of the Pulp Era Two titans of terror. One final, forgotten correspondence. In the sweltering heat of Cross Plains, Texas, Robert E. Howard struggles against the encroaching shadows of his own mind. In the salt-air silence of Providence, Rhode Island, H.P. Lovecraft peers into cosmic abysses no man was meant to see. Though separated by half a continent, they are bound together by a bridge of ink—a friendship forged in the pages of Weird Tales and tempered in the fires of their own genius. But what if the letters we know were only the beginning? The Final Parchment reveals a lost series of fictionalized exchanges between the "Two-Gun Bob" of the West and the "Old Gent" of New England. Within these pages, Anne Hendricks weaves a haunting narrative of two men standing at the edge of the abyss, sharing secrets that would shape the gods and monsters of the modern age. Told entirely through intimate letters, telegrams, and unsent fragments, this gripping work of epistolary fiction explores the thin line between the creator and the creation. It is a tribute to the power of friendship, the weight of legacy, and the ghosts that haunt the writers of the weird. Step into the 1930s. Open the parchment. Discover the friendship that defined an era.