William Scott Home

Part of a circle of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror writers that paid homage to M. P. Shiel and H. P. Lovecraft, Home is considered by many to be a unique talent in his own right.

[3] While he had a number of mainstream poems printed in "little magazines" during high school years, it was not until the publication of his story, "The Fruits of Yebo's Sins", in Weirdbook in 1971 that he found his niche.

In 1977 Ganley published a collection of Home's short stories, Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons,[8] illustrated by fantasy art legend Steven E. Fabian.

In 1987, Thomas Ligotti included Home's essay "The Horror Theme after H. P. Lovecraft" (first published in HLP) in the Gale Research compilation Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.

[15] In the early 1980s, John D. Squires made a photocopy booklet of his own favorites from among Homes's poems, including Onyx and Bloodstone and The Ransom of Enchanted Castles; copies of the informal collection still show up on the book market now and then.

[16] In 1985, Randy Everts of The Strange Company published two collections of Home's original verse: Black Diamond Gates,[17] pieces reflecting the 1200-1600 AD era of magic and experimental science; and Stain of Moonlight,[18] which offers more general poems.

[22] Commenting on his later inclusion of Home's article as part of the Lovecraft commentary in the monumental Twentieth Century Literary Criticism series, Ligotti praised it as "lucid and insightful".

"[9b] In 2011, Ligotti named Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons the weirdest piece of fiction he had ever read:[23] ... so complex and recondite that it's all but unreadable, much like that of Clark Ashton Smith.