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Contents:

• ix - Introduction (New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos) - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 3 - Crouch End - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by Stephen King
• 33 - The Star Pools - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by A. A. Attanasio
• 73 - The Second Wish - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by Brian Lumley
• 101 - Dark Awakening - [Cthulhu Mythos] - shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
• 115 - Shaft Number 247 - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by Basil Copper
• 145 - Black Man with a Horn - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by T. E. D. Klein
• 187 - The Black Tome of Alsophocus - [Cthulhu Mythos] - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and Martin S. Warnes
• 197 - Than Curse the Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by David Drake
• 223 - The Faces at Pine Dunes - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• 255 - Notes on Contributors (New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos) - essay by uncredited

Contents:

• vii - The Cthulhu Mythos - essay by August Derleth
• 3 - The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 31 - The Return of the Sorcerer - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• 45 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• 53 - The Black Stone - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1931) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
• 69 - The Hounds of Tindalos - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
• 83 - The Space-Eaters - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette by Frank Belknap Long
• 111 - The Dweller in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1944) - novelette by August Derleth
• 146 - Beyond the Threshold - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1941) - novelette by August Derleth
• 170 - The Shambler from the Stars - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1935) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• 179 - The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 201 - The Shadow from the Steeple - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1950) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• 222 - Notebook Found in a Deserted House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1951) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• 242 - The Salem Horror - [Michael Leigh] - (1937) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• 259 - The Haunter of the Graveyard - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by J. Vernon Shea
• 272 - Cold Print - [Cthulhu Mythos] - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell [as by J. Ramsey Campbell ]
• 286 - The Sister City - [Cthulhu Mythos] - shortstory by Brian Lumley
• 300 - Cement Surroundings - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by Brian Lumley
• 321 - The Deep Ones - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by James Wade
• 351 - The Return of the Lloigor - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novella by Colin Wilson
• 402 - Biographical (Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos) - shortfiction by uncredited

Contents:

• ix - Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn! - essay by Jim Turner [as by James Turner (I) ]
• 3 - The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 33 - The Return of the Sorcerer - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• 48 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• 56 - The Black Stone - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1931) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
• 74 - The Hounds of Tindalos - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
• 88 - The Space-Eaters - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette by Frank Belknap Long
• 116 - The Dweller in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1944) - novelette by August Derleth
• 153 - Beyond the Threshold - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1941) - novelette by August Derleth
• 177 - The Shambler from the Stars - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1935) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• 187 - The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 211 - The Shadow from the Steeple - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1950) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• 231 - Notebook Found in a Deserted House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1951) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• 250 - The Salem Horror - [Michael Leigh] - (1937) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• 267 - The Terror from the Depths - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1976) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 313 - Rising with Surtsey - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1971) - novelette by Brian Lumley
• 343 - Cold Print - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1969) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• 359 - The Return of the Lloigor - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1969) - novella by Colin Wilson
• 410 - My Boat - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1976) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• 427 - Sticks - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1974) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 449 - The Freshman - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1979) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• 468 - Jerusalem's Lot - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1978) - novelette by Stephen King
• 503 - Discovery of the Ghooric Zone - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1977) - shortstory by Richard A. Lupoff (variant of Discovery of the Ghooric Zone - March 15, 2337)

What men know is called science; what they have not yet learned they call magic. But both are real.... -- In the world of today and the near future, three people inexorably linked by a common interest in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, discover: --

• that the legendary creatures he created in his fantasies have hideous counterparts in reality...
• that his fiction is incredible fact...
• that his message is a warning...

Bloch was a protège of H. P. Lovecraft, and, at the age of fifteen, the youngest member of the "Lovecraft Circle." This book, based on Lovecraftian themes, is his homage to the man.

Of all the Lovecraft pastiches, Strange Eons most emphatically takes the bleak implications of his mythos to their logical conclusion.

One of the early works of pulp terror, The Horror from the Hills is the legendary first tale of the Cthulhu Mythos. It is drawn from the disturbing nightmares of Belknap Long's friend and colleague, H. P. Lovecraft, the master writer of supernatural fiction of the modern age. A blood-sucking demon from the fourth dimension is mistakenly exhibited in a Manhattan museum and feasts on the blood of its admirers.

One of Lovecraft's longest works, this novella was turned into a graphic novel by British artist I. N. J. Culbard in 2010 (more on his work later). At the Mountains of Madness owes much of its creeping melancholy to not only Lovecraft's fascination with polar exploration, but also to the legacy of polar exploration in fiction, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Told in the first-person by Miskatonic geologist Dr. William Dyer, At the Mountains of Madness details a scientific expedition to Antarctica that unearths the ancient and ruined city of the Elder Things of the Necronomicon.

This Novel was originally serialized in 1936 February, March and April issues of Astounding Stories. It has been anthologized many times, including the anthology Foundations of Fear: An Exploration of Horror, edited by David G. Hartwell, and has also been included in a myriad of collections, including the collections Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror and The The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories.

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft is available free on the Internet.

This short story originally appeared in Weird Tales in 1928. It has been anthologized many times, including the anthology The Dark Descent, edited by David G. Hartwell, and has also been included in a myriad of collections, including the collections The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories and The Dunwich Horror and Others.

It was the basis for the 2005 featurette The Call of Cthulhu.

The February 1928 issue of Weird Tales containing "The Call of Cthulhu" is available free on Internet Archives.

Set in the rural wilderness of western Massachusetts, "The Dunwich Horror" follows one Wilbur Whateley, the bastard offspring of a family devoted to worshipping to "Great Old Ones" and to studying the Necronomicon, Lovecraft's fictional grimoire full of forsaken lore and magic. Whateley is ultimately defeated by Professor Warren Rice and Dr. Francis Morgan, two representatives of Lovecraft's many scholarly protagonists. "The Dunwich Horror" is notable not only for its use of anachronistic Yankee dialects, but also its numerous references to the fictional Miskatonic University and the superstition surrounding whip-poor-wills.

This short story originally appeared in Weird Tales in 1929. It has been anthologized many times, including the anthology Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Phyllis Fraser and Herbert A. Wise, and has also been included in a myriad of collections, including the collections Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft and The Dunwich Horror and Others.

The Dunwich Horror is the basis for several films of the same name.

The April 1929 issue of Weird Tales containing "The Dunwich Horror" is available free on Internet Archives.

Like At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Out of Time is one of Lovecraft's longest and most involved novellas. Moreover, The Shadow Out of Time was also turned into a graphic novel by Culbard in 2013. After a protracted coma which saw him become a topic of fascination for psychologists and psychiatrists around the world, the former Miskatonic Professor Nathaniel Peaslee embarks on a journey through the Australian outback in order to discover the lost civilization of the Yithians, a race of brilliant extraterrestrials who can travel through both space and time. Like other great minds from different epochs, Peaslee once had his mind switched with that of a Yithian in order for the alien to learn as much as possible about human civilization during the early 20th century. A profoundly pessimistic tale, The Shadow Out of Time was published nine months before Lovecraft died of cancer in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. He was 46.

This Novella was originally published June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. It has been anthologized many times, including the anthology Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Horror Novels, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, and has also been included in a myriad of collections, including the collections The Dunwich Horror and Others also Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

The novella "The Shadow Out of Time" is available free on the Internet.

As with "The Dunwich Horror," this short story is set in the fictional Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth, yet another "strange, little town" in the history of American horror. As the narrator, an amateur genealogist named Robert Olmstead, goes deeper and deeper into town, he uncovers the unholy marriage between Innsmouth, the Marsh family and the weird creatures that live just out past the coastal waters. "The Shadow over Innsmouth" is a good example of another one of Lovecraft's favorite tropes: guilt inherited by tainted blood. As such, "The Shadow over Innsmouth" takes fears of miscegenation to the extreme.

This novella was originally published by Visionary Press as a limited run chapbook in 1937. The first major stand alone publication was in the January 1942 issue of Weird Tales. It has been anthologized many times, including the anthology H. P. Lovecraft and Others: Shadows Over Innsmouth, edited by Stephen Jones, and has also been included in a myriad of collections, including the collections The Dunwich Horror and Others and The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories.

The novella "The Shadow over Innsmouth" is available free on the Internet.

Into the Dark Magic of the House of Carnby There Comes a Visitor of Dread.

This short story is included in the collections:

• The Return of the Sorcerer (2012), Clark Ashton Smith
• Out of Space and Time (1942), (Clark Ashton Smith
• Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987), editors Martin H. Greenberg, Carol Serling, Charles G. Waugh
• The Door to Saturn: Volume Two of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith (2007), Clark Ashton Smith

It first appeared in the September 1931 Issue of Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror available free on Internet Archives.

BFA winning and WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Whispers #3, March 1974. The story has been reprinted many times. It can be found in the anthologies:

• Night Chills (1975), edited by Kirby McCauley
• First World Fantasy Awards (1977), edited by Gahan Wilson
• Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror (1977), edited by Stuart David Schiff
• The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981), edited by Barry N. Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg and Bill Pronzini
• The Dark Descent: The Evolution of Horror (1987), edited by David G. Hartwell
• The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993), edited by Stephen Jones
• The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 (2012), edited by John Pelan
• The Book of Cthulhu 2 (2012), edited by Ross E. Lockhart

It is included in the collections In a Lonely Place (1983) and Karl Edward Wagner: Masters of the Weird Tale (2011).

WFA nomintaed novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Lovecraft's Legacy (1990), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert E. Weinberg. A limmited edition chapbook was published in 1992. The story can also be found in the collection The Barrens and Others (1998).

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