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There is a lake in the Severn Valley, near a town called Brichester. It is an eerie, haunted place, both by day and by night. Night especially though, is a time when no one in their right mind would go anywhere near it, or those oddly deserted houses that stand, albeit barely, on the edge of the shore. But why? What is it that moves about in that lake, a thing that makes its presence known with three sinister glowing eyes that protrude from beneath the water?

Some believe it is an entity that traveled to Earth, many thousands of years ago inside a hollow meteor.

Ramsey Campbell, Nick Mamatas, John Goodrich, Robert M. Price, Pete Rawlik, W.H. Pugmire, Edward Morris, Scott R. Jones, Thana Niveau, William Meikle, Orrin Grey, Tom Lynch, Konstantine Paradias, Josh Reynolds, Lee Clarke Zumpe, and Tim Waggoner, these are, The Children of Gla’aki.

Contents:

• 5 - Introduction (The Children of Gla'aki) - essay by Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons
• 9 - The Inhabitant of the Lake - [Severn Valley] - (1964) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• 41 - Country Mouse, City Mouse - short story by Nick Mamatas
• 50 - Tribute Band - short story by John Goodrich
• 69 - In Search of Lake Monsters - short story by Robert M. Price
• 78 - The Collection of Gibson Flynn - short story by Peter Rawlik [as by Pete Rawlik]
• 93 - The Secret Painting of Thomas Cartwright - short story by W. H. Pugmire
• 99 - I Want to Break Free - short story by Edward Morris
• 110 - The Spike - short story by Scott R. Jones
• 128 - The Dawning of His Dreams - short story by Thana Niveau
• 137 - The Lakeside Cottages - short story by William Meikle
• 154 - Invaders of Gla'aki - short story by Orrin Grey
• 163 - Scion of Chaahk - short story by Tom Lynch
• 178 - Cult of Panacea - short story by Konstantine Paradias
• 188 - Squatters Rights - short story by Josh Reynolds
• 201 - Beneath Cayuga's Churning Waves - short story by Lee Clark Zumpe
• 218 - The Nature of Water - short story by Tim Waggoner
• 232 - Night of the Hopfrog - novelette by Tim Curran
• 255 - Mirror Fishing - novelette by John Langan
• 279 - From the Depths of Time: Afterword - essay by Ramsey Campbell

In this Cthulhu Mythos inspired anthology, editors Glynn Owen Barrass & Brian M. Sammons invited their authors to Take a steampunk world, fill it with giant steam powered robots, and have them herding shoggoths for the betterment of mankind. Have them rebel, and have do-gooders set about trying to free them. Fill a world with Deep Ones or Ghouls, or create a world where magic is a part of everyday life, or where America was never discovered because something kept eating the ships, or the Nazis won WWII thanks to outside influences. Perhaps the Chinese built the Great Wall to keep something out other than Mongol hordes. So, how did they do? Fantastically of course!

Contents:

• Introduction (Through a Mythos Darkly) - essay by Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons
• The Roadrunners - short fiction by Cody Goodfellow
• Scrimshaw - short fiction by Jeffrey Thomas
• Sweet Angie Tailor in: Subterranean Showdown - short story by John Langan
• An Old and Secret Cult - short fiction by Robert M. Price
• Stewert Behr--Deanimator - short fiction by Peter Rawlik [as by Pete Rawlik]
• To Kill a King - short fiction by Don Webb
• The Last Quest - short story by William Meikle
• Fate of the World - short fiction by Christine Morgan
• Red in the Water, Salt on the Earth - short fiction by Konstantine Paradias
• The Night They Drove Cro Magnon Down - short fiction by D. A. Madigan
• Sacrifice - short fiction by Sam Stone
• Get Off Your Knees, I'm Not Your God - short fiction by Edward Morris
• Excerpts from the Diaries of Henry P. Linklatter - short fiction by Stephen Mark Rainey
• Plague Doctor - short fiction by Tim Waggoner
• Amidst the Blighted Swathes of Grey Desolation - short fiction by Lee Clark Zumpe
• Cognac, Communism, and Cocaine - short fiction by Nick Mamatas and Molly Tanzer
• Kai Monstrai Ateik (When the Monsters Come) - short fiction by Damien Angelica Walters