With Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs, Kerouac takes to the road, crossing America to save the world from a Lovecraftian cult.

The limited edition hardcover includes the short story "Jitterbuggin'", an afterword, a bound-in ribbon bookmark, and a unique Lovecraftian senryū written by Mamatas.

As recently as 2009, major genre publications such as Tor.com published an article on the book[2] by novelist Jon Evans.

Hite also declared the book one of the top five Mythos novels of all time via Twitter.

[3] In an October 2010 podcast and interview,[4] author Nick Mamatas explained that his goal in writing Move Under Ground was to write a novel that would still be discussed ten years after its initial publication, referencing The Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly.