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H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

Some tales take us to the remote corners of the world, such as the Peru of "Cult of the Dead" or the Antarctica of "Devil's Bathtub." Like Lovecraft, Gresh fuses weirdness and science fiction in such tales as "Mandelbrot Mindrot" and "Willie the Protector." Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" has been a particularly fruitful source of inspiration for Gresh, as such tales as "Dreams of Death" and "Necrotic Cove" attest.

Michel Houellebecq

From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft

'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.' In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houellebecq, the controversial and bestselling author of ATOMISED, focuses his considerable analytical skills on H.P. Lovecraft, one of the seminal horror writers of the early 20th century.

Houellebecq's insights into the craft of writing illuminate both Lovecraft and Houellebecq's own work. The two are kindred spirits, sharing a uniquely dark worldview. But even as he outlines Lovecraft's rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq's adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion that characterises Houellebecq's new novel. This is indispensable reading for anyone interested in Lovecraft, Houellebecq, or the past and future of horror.

Swedish Cults

Anders Fager

Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager's stories, Sweden is revealed as a place where dark and unimaginable things happen. Where deep in the woods bloody sacrifices are made to ancient and monstrous deities. Where two young people's road trip to visit their grandmother takes a turn for the bizarre and nightmarish. Where a woman's comfortable middle-class life is suddenly upended when her boyfriend develops a mysterious illness that leaves him with a constant erection and speaking in strange tongues. Where an avant garde artist discovers the veil that separates Stockholm from the shadowy city of Carcosa.

H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror

A best of the best anthology that Lovecraft himself appreciated and recommended.

Contents:

1 - Supernatural Horror in Literature - [Supernatural Horror in Literature] - (1927) - essay by H. P. Lovecraft
66 - The Signalman - (1866) - shortstory by Charles Dickens
78 - The House and the Brain - (1859) - novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain)
113 - The Body Snatcher - (1884) - shortstory by Robert Louis Stevenson
130 - The Spider - (1915) - novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
151 - The Foot of the Mummy - (1882) - shortstory by Théophile Gautier (trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)
161 - The Horla - [Le Horla - 2] - (1890) - novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
183 - The Fall of the House of Usher - (1839) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
202 - The Damned Thing - (1893) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
211 - The Upper Berth - (1885) - novelette by F. Marion Crawford
229 - The Yellow Sign - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
248 - The Shadows on the Wall - (1903) - shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
263 - The Dead Valley - (1895) - shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
271 - Fishhead - (1913) - shortstory by Irvin S. Cobb
282 - Lukundoo - (1907) - shortstory by Edward Lucas White
295 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
306 - The Mark of the Beast - (1890) - shortstory by Rudyard Kipling
318 - Negotium Perambulans - (1922) - shortstory by E. F. Benson
333 - Mrs. Lunt - (1926) - shortstory by Hugh Walpole [as by Sir Hugh Walpole]
346 - The Hog - [Carnacki (William Hope Hodgson)] - (1947) - novelette by William Hope Hodgson
385 - The Great God Pan - (1894) - novella by Arthur Machen
434 - Count Magnus - (1904) - shortstory by M. R. James
448 - Lovecraft and the 'Literature of Cosmic Fear' - (1993) - essay by Stephen Jones

Providence

Caroline Kepnes

Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share a bond so intense that it borders on the mystical. But before Jon can declare his love for his soul mate, he is kidnapped, his plans for a normal life permanently dashed.

Four years later, Chloe has finally given up hope of ever seeing Jon again. Then, a few months before graduation, Jon reappears. But he is different now: bigger, stronger, and with no memory of the time he was gone. Jon wants to pick up where he and Chloe left off... until the horrifying instant he realizes that he possesses strange powers that pose a grave threat to everyone he cares for. Afraid of hurting Chloe, Jon runs away, embarking on a journey for answers.

Meanwhile, in Providence, Rhode Island, healthy college students and townies with no connection to one another are suddenly, inexplicably dropping dead. A troubled detective prone to unexplainable hunches, Charles "Eggs" DeBenedictus suspects there's a serial killer at work. But when he starts asking questions, Eggs is plunged into a whodunit worthy of his most outlandish obsessions.

In this dazzling new novel--and with an intense, mesmerizing voice--Caroline Kepnes makes keen and powerful observations about human connection and how love and identity can dangerously blur together.

Tales of Pain and Wonder

West of Innsmouth: A Cthulhu Western

Through a cycle of interconnected narratives, Kiernan unflinchingly explores a surreal world where the fantastic and the mundane are never separated by more than the insubstantial thickness of a shadow. From the murderous backstreets of New Orleans to an abandoned shipyard of the Hudson River, from sun-weary Los Angeles to a maze of dank and forgotten tunnels beneath Manhattan, these stories present a landscape at once alien and undeniably familiar.

Including such acclaimed tales as "Estate" (selected for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror), "Postcards from the King of Tides" (selected for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror), "In the Water Works" (the basis of Kiernan's award-winning second novel, Threshold), and "Tears Seven Times Salt" (to be reprinted in The Century's Best Horror), Tales of Pain and Wonder is destined to stand as a modern classic of weird and supernatural fiction.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Pain, Wonder, and Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tales of Pain and Wonder) - essay by Douglas E. Winter
xi - Preface (Tales of Pain and Wonder) - essay
1 - Anamorphosis - (1996) - novelette
21 - To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889) - (1996) - novelette
41 - Bela's Plot - (1997) - short story
55 - Tears Seven Times Salt - (1996) - short story
69 - Superheroes - (1997) - short story
83 - Glass Coffin - [Salmagundi Desvernine] - (1999) - short story
99 - Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun - [Salmagundi Desvernine] - (1997) - novelette
117 - Estate - (1997) - short story
131 - The Last Child of Lir - (1997) - short story
149 - A Story for Edward Gorey - (1997) - short story
161 - Salammbô - (1999) - short story (variant of Salammbo)
177 - Paedomorphosis - (1998) - short story
191 - Postcards from the King of Tides - (1998) - short story
211 - Rats Live on No Evil Star - (1999) - short story
223 - Salmagundi - [Salmagundi Desvernine] - (1998) - short fiction
235 - In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888) - [Dancy Flammarion] - (2000) - short story
249 - The Long Hall on the Top Floor - (1999) - short story
261 - San Andreas - (2000) - short fiction
279 - Angels You Can See Through - (2000) - short fiction
289 - Lafayette - (2000) - short story
305 - ...Between the Gargoyle Trees - [Salmagundi Desvernine] - (2000) - short fiction
321 - Epilogue: Zelda Fitzgerald in Ballet Attire - (2000) - poem

Hideyuki Kikuchi

Bounty hunter Shooter searches the badlands of 1880s Kansas for four outlaws-the "Dreams Made Flesh" minions born of the fleeting thoughts of Cthulhu-and manages to shoot one, but the outlaw's corpse vanishes to leave only mysteries: he shot bullet after bullet, but never reloaded, and his gun was icy cold.

In Dodge City he meets up with Bat Masterson, Doc Holiday, and Wyatt Earp, employing the powers of the Esoteric Order of Dagon to kill the four Dreams before they attract undue attention to the Church's own attempts to awaken the Master.

The shootout at the OK Corral will decide the victor-and possibly the fate of humanity.

A unique mash-up blending two of America's favorite literary genres-the western and the Cthulhu Mythos-with a dash of Japanese ninja for added zest, brought to life with the humor and bold imagination that made his Vampire Hunter D series such a success in English translation.

Revival

Stephen King

A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.

In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.

Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of thirteen, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family's horrific loss. In his mid-thirties--addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate--Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.

This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft
Leslie S. Klinger

From across strange aeons comes the long-awaited annotated edition of "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale" (Stephen King).

"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century... the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period's most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of "incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates).

In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.

Over the course of his career, Lovecraft--"the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber)--made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction," Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization.

Following his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep.

280 color illustrations

The Eater of Souls

Henry Kuttner

A five-minute tale of a strange entity on a distant world.

This short story appears in the collection, The Book of Iod: The Eater of Souls & Other Tales (1995), by Henry Kutner

Originally appeared in Weird Tales, January 1937 available free on Internet Archives.

The Salem Horror

Henry Kuttner

A ghastly horror from the witchcraft days of three centuries ago reared its dreadful form in the Witch Room of that old house in Derby Street.

This short story appears in the collections:

The Book of Iod: The Eater of Souls & Other Tales (1995), by Henry Kutner
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1969), edited by August Derleth

Originally appeared in Weird Tales, May 1937 available free on Internet Archives.

The Night Ocean

Paul La Farge

Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them.

A tour-de-force of storytelling, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century, whose stories continue to win new acolytes, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story "The Night Ocean"); his student, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan -- the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself.

As a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent, from a remote Ontario town, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception -- about the way that stories earn our trust, and betray it.

The Fisherman

John Langan

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

Sturgeon and Hugo Award nominated novella.

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures... and the carved stones tens of millions of years old... and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird.

Table of Contents:

At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
The Statement of Randolph Carter - [Randolph Carter] - (1920) - short story

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

H. P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies

Table of Contents:

By Way of Introduction (Beyond the Wall of Sleep) - essay by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity - essay by H. P. Lovecraft
The Commonplace Book - (1938) - essay by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of Commonplace Book)
History and Chronology of the Necronomicon - short fiction (variant of History of the Necronomicon 1938)
Memory - (1923) - poem
What the Moon Brings -(1922) - poem
Nyarlathotep - (1920) - poem
Ex Oblivione - (1921) - poem
The Tree - (1921) - short story
The Other Gods - (1933) - short story
The Quest of Iranon - (1935) - short story
The Doom That Came to Sarnath - (1920) - short story
The White Ship - (1919) - short story
From Beyond - (1934) - short story
Beyond the Wall of Sleep - (1919) - short story
The Unnamable - (1925) - short story
The Hound - (1924) - short story
The Moon-Bog - (1926) - short story
The Evil Clergyman - (1939) - short story
Herbert West--Reanimator - (1922) - novelette (variant of Herbert West: Reanimator)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - novella
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - novel
The Crawling Chaos - (1921) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft [as by H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley ]
The Green Meadow - (1918) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft [as by H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley ]
The Curse of Yig - short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop [as by Zealia Brown-Reed ]
The Horror in the Museum - (1933) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald [as by Hazel Heald ]
Out of the Eons - (1935) - novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Hazel Heald ]
The Mound - novella by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop [as by Zealia Brown-Reed ]
The Diary of Alonzo Typer - (1938) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and William Lumley [as by William Lumley ]
The Challenge from Beyond - (1935) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long [as by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long, Jr. ]
In the Walls of Eryx - (1939) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling
Ibid - (1938) - short story
Sweet Ermengarde - short story
Providence - (1924) - poem
On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park - (1920) - poem
Old Christmas - (1918) - poem
New England Fallen - poem
On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight - (1915) - poem
Astrophobos - (1918) - poem
Sunset - (1917) - poem
A Year Off - poem
A Summer Sunset and Evening - (1937) - poem
To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema - (1919) - poem
The Ancient Track - (1930) - poem
The Eidolon - (1918) - poem
The Nightmare Lake - (1919) - poem
The Outpost - (1930) - poem
The Rutted Road - (1917) - poem
The Wood - (1929) - poem
Hallowe'en in a Suburb - (1926) - poem
Primavera - (1925) - poem
October - (1920) - poem
To a Dreamer - (1921) - poem
Despair - (1919) - poem
Nemesis - (1918) - poem
Psychopompos - (1919) - poem
The Book - (1934) - poem
Pursuit - (1934) - poem
The Key - (1935) - poem
Recognition - (1936) - poem
Homecoming - (1935) - poem
The Lamp - (1931) - poem
Zaman's Hill - (1934) - poem
The Port - (1930) - poem
The Courtyard - (1930) - poem
The Pigeon-Flyers - poem
The Well - (1930) - poem
The Howler - (1932) - poem
Hesperia - (1930) - poem
Star-Winds - (1930) - poem
Antarktos - (1930) - poem
The Window - (1931) - poem
A Memory - poem
The Gardens of Yin - (1932) - poem
The Bells - (1930) - poem
Night-Gaunts - (1936) - poem
Nyarlathotep - (1931) - poem
Azathoth - (1931) - poem
Mirage - (1931) - poem
The Canal - (1932) - poem
The Familiars - (1930) - poem
The Elder Pharos - (1931) - poem
Expectancy - poem
Nostalgia - (1930) - poem
Background - (1930) - poem
The Dweller - (1930) - poem
Alienation - (1931) - poem
Harbour Whistles - (1930) - poem
Recapture - (1930) - poem
Evening Star - poem
Continuity - (1936) - poem
Yule Horror - (1926) - poem (variant of Festival 1925)
408 - To Mr. Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God" - (1937) - poem (variant of To Virgil Finlay: Upon His Drawing for Robert Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God")
To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., Upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures - (1938) - poem (variant of To Clark Ashton Smith)
Where Once Poe Walked - (1937) - poem
Christmas Greeting to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell--1925 - (1925) - poem
Brick Row - (1930) - poem
The Messenger - (1938) - poem
The Cthulhu Mythology: A Glossary - (1942) - essay by Francis T. Laney
An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft - essay by W. Paul Cook

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

With more than 100 movies based on his writing, H.P. Lovecraft ranks among the most adapted authors in history--along with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. His unnervingly scary tales appeal to both diehard fans of horror and readers with mainstream tastes, and H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies presents the very best of his filmed stories. Additionally, this unique collection provides an enlightening historical introduction, short headnotes for each story calling out interesting trivia, and an appendix with credits for each screen version.

THE STORIES INCLUDE:

"The Colour out of Space": filmed twice, once as a vehicle for Boris Karloff called Die, Monster, Die!
"The Dunwich Horror," also filmed two times, once with Dean Stockwell "Pickman's Model" and "Cool Air": both for Rod Serling's Night Gallery TV program
"The Call of Cthulhu," which laid the foundation for the Cthulhu Mythos

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were first released. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as attract those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.

Table of Contents:

Map of Arkham, circa 1930 - (1970) - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
Night-Gaunts - [Fungi from Yuggoth] - (1930) - poem
Dagon - (1919) - short story
The Statement of Randolph Carter - [Randolph Carter] - (1920) - short story
The Doom That Came to Sarnath - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - short story
The Cats of Ulthar - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - short story
The Nameless City - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1921) - short story
Herbert West--Reanimator - [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] - (1922) - novelette
The Music of Erich Zann - [Erich Zann] - (1922) - short story
The Lurking Fear - (1928) - novelette
The Hound - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1924) - short story
The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette
Under the Pyramids - (1924) - novelette
The Unnamable - [Randolph Carter] - (1925) - short story
In the Vault - (1925) - short story
The Outsider - [Dream Cycle] - (1926) - short story
The Horror at Red Hook - (1927) - novelette
The Colour Out of Space - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1927) - novelette
Pickman's Model - (1927) - short story
The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette
Cool Air - (1928) - short story
The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
The Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1929) - short story
The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette
The Whisperer in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - novella
The Strange High House in the Mist - [Dream Cycle] - (1931) - short story
The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
From Beyond - [Dream Cycle] - (1934) - short story by
Through the Gates of the Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1934) - novelette
At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella
The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
The Thing on the Doorstep - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1937) - novelette
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - [Dream Cycle] - (1943) - novel
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - [Randolph Carter] - (1943) - novella
To a Dreamer - (1921) - poem
Afterword A Gentleman of Providence - essay by Stephen Jones
Primary Collaborations and Revisions - essay by uncredited

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction have been waiting for: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including Lovecraft's masterpiece, THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME--the shocking revelation of the mysterious forces that hold all mankind in their fearsome grip.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the Twentieth Century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." Stephen King

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Heritage of Horror - (1982) - essay by Robert Bloch
The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette
The Picture in the House - (1919) - short story
The Outsider - [Dream Cycle] - (1926) - short story
Pickman's Model - (1927) - short story
In the Vault - (1925) - short story
The Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1929) - short story
The Music of Erich Zann - [Erich Zann] - (1922) - short story
The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette
The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette
The Whisperer in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - novella
The Colour Out of Space - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1927) - novelette
The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
The Thing on the Doorstep - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1937) - novelette
The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." -Stephen King

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi
Suggestions for Further Reading - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi
A Note on the Text - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi
Dagon - (1919)
The Statement of Randolph Carter - (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family - (1987) - (variant of The White Ape 1920)
Celephaïs - (1922)
Nyarlathotep - (1920)
The Picture in the House - (1919)
The Outsider - (1926)
Herbert West--Reanimator - (1922)
The Hound - (1924)
The Rats in the Walls - (1924)
The Festival - (1925)
He - (1926)
Cool Air - (1928)
The Call of Cthulhu - (1928)
The Colour Out of Space - (1927)
The Whisperer in Darkness - (1931)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth - (1936)
The Haunter of the Dark - (1936)
Explanatory Notes - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

A nameless terror surges through centuries to engulf the soul of Charles Dexter Ward, a brilliant New England antiquarian. Evil spirits, malefic gods whose memory lives on in whispered legends and fear-stricken superstitions, still lurk in vile catacombs beneath the surface of a blighted land. Ward is driven to unleash these loathsome horrors upon a defenceless world, possessed by the demonic shade of his ancestor Joseph Curwen, a warlock steeped in the blackest arts of magic. Now Ward too must master these obscene rituals, and pay the price in blood. Human blood.

The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward remains the only full-length work of fiction by HP Lovecraft, the master of 20th century horror. It has inspired such classic horror films as Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond.

The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," and many more hair-raising tales.

The Dunwich Horror and Others

"[Lovecraft's] dream fantasy works are as terrifying and haunting as his tales of horror and the macabre. A master craftsman, Lovecraft brings compelling visions of nightmarish fear, invisible worlds and the demons of the unconscious. If one author truly represents the very best in American literary horror, it is H. P. Lovecraft."
--John Carpenter, Director of At the Mouth of Madness, Halloween, and Christine

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales:

THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH--Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse consume the land of Mnar.
THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER--"You fool, Warren is DEAD!"
THE NAMELESS CITY--Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos.
THE CATS OF ULTHAR--In Ulthar, no man may kill a cat... and woe unto any who tries.
THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH--The epic nightmare adventure with tendrils stretching throughout the entire Dream Cycle.
AND TWENTY MORE TALES OF SURREAL TERROR

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Concerning Dreams and Nightmares- (1995)- essay by Neil Gaiman
Azathoth- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- short story
The Descendant- (1926)- short story
The Thing in the Moonlight- [Dream Cycle]- (1941)- short story
Polaris- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short story
Beyond the Wall of Sleep- (1919)- short story
The Doom That Came to Sarnath- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short story
The Statement of Randolph Carter- [Randolph Carter]- (1920)- short story
The Cats of Ulthar- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short story
Celephais- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- short story
From Beyond- [Dream Cycle]- (1934)- short story
Nyarlathotep- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short fiction
The Nameless City- [Cthulhu Mythos]- (1921)- short story
The Other Gods- [Dream Cycle]- (1933)- short story
Ex Oblivione- [Dream Cycle]- (1921)- poem
The Quest of Iranon- [Dream Cycle]- (1935)- short story
The Hound- [Cthulhu Mythos]- (1924)- short story
Hypnos- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- short story
What the Moon Brings- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- poem
Pickman's Model- (1927)- short story
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath- [Randolph Carter]- (1943)- novella
The Silver Key- [Randolph Carter]- (1929)- short story
The Strange High House in the Mist- [Dream Cycle]- (1931)- short story
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward- [Dream Cycle]- (1943)- novel
The Dreams in the Witch-House- [Cthulhu Mythos]- (1933)- novelette
Through the Gates of the Silver Key- [Randolph Carter]- (1934)- novelette

The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night.

The Dunwich Horror and Others contains the following tales:

H. P. Lovecraft and His Work by August Derleth
In the Vault
Pickman's Model
The Rats in the Walls
The Outsider
The Colour out of Space
The Music of Erich Zann
The Haunter of the Dark
The Picture in the House
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
Cool Air
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Terrible Old Man
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Out of Time

Virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, H.P. Lovecraft is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.

Lovecraft was master of the supernatural story, and this volume features almost every work of fiction Lovecraft wrote in his short life. Also included is a well-constructed forward, informative introductory paragraphs to each of the stories, and Lovecraft's famous essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature".

The Horror in the Museum

Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-authored--but all bear the mark of the master of primordial terror.

The Horror in the Museum -- Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the real thing.
The Electric Executioner -- Aboard a train, a traveler must match wits with a murderous madman.
The Trap -- This mirror wants a great deal more than your reflection.
The Ghost - Eater--In an ancient woodland, the past comes to life with a bone-crunching vengeance.

AND TWENTY MORE STORIES OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL!

Table of Contents:

Introduction - essay by Stephen Jones
Lovecraft's "Revisions" - (1970) - essay by August Derleth
Note on the Texts - essay by S. T. Joshi
The Green Meadow - (1918) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Elizabeth Neville Berkeley and Lewis Theobald, Jr.]
The Last Test - (1928) - novella by Adolphe de Castro and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Adolphe de Castro]
The Electric Executioner - (1930) - novelette by Adolphe de Castro and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Adolphe de Castro]
The Curse of Yig - (1929) - short story by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Zealia Bishop]
The Mound - (1940) - novelette by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Zealia Bishop]
Medusa's Coil - (1939) - novelette by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Zealia Bishop]
The Man of Stone - (1932) - short story by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Hazel Heald]
The Horror in the Museum - (1933) - novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Hazel Heald]
Winged Death - (1934) - novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Hazel Heald]
Out of the Aeons - (1989) - novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft (variant of Out of the Eons 1935) [as by Hazel Heald]
The Horror in the Burying-Ground - (1937) - short story by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Hazel Heald]
The Diary of Alonzo Typer - (1938) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and William Lumley [as by William Lumley]
The Horror at Martin's Beach - (1923) - short story by Sonia Greene and H. P. Lovecraft (variant of The Invisible Monster) [as by Sonia H. Greene]
Ashes - (1924) - short story by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft [as by C. M. Eddy, Jr.]
The Ghost-Eater - (1924) - short story by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft [as by C. M. Eddy, Jr.]
The Loved Dead - (1924) - short story by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft [as by C. M. Eddy, Jr.]
Deaf, Dumb and Blind - (1925) - short story by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft [as by C. M. Eddy, Jr.]
Two Black Bottles - (1927) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Wilfred Blanch Talman [as by Wilfred Blanch Talman]
The Trap - [Gerald Canevin] - (1932) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and Henry S. Whitehead [as by Henry S. Whitehead]
The Tree on the Hill - (1934) - short story by Duane W. Rimel
The Disinterment - (1935) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel [as by Duane W. Rimel]
"Till A' the Seas" - (1935) - short story by R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft (variant of "Till All the Seas") [as by R. H. Barlow]
The Night Ocean - (1936) - short story by R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft [as by R. H. Barlow]
The Crawling Chaos - (1921) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Elizabeth Neville Berkeley and Lewis Theobald, Jr.]

The Lurking Fear

The Lurking Fear and Other Stories

This short story originally appeared in Home Brew in 1923. It has been anthologized many times, and can also be found in the collection The Lurking Fear and Other Stories.

It was the basis for the 1994 movie Lurking Fear.

Twelve soul-chilling stories by the master of horror will leave you shivering in your boots and afraid to go out in the night. Only H.P. Lovecraft can send your heart racing faster than it's ever gone before. And here are the stories to prove it.

Table of Contents:

The Lurking Fear - (1923)
The Colour Out of Space - (1927)
The Nameless City - (1921)
Pickman's Model - (1927)
Arthur Jermyn - (1935) - (variant of The White Ape 1920)
The Unnamable - (1925)
The Call of Cthulhu - (1928)
The Moon-Bog - (1926)
Cool Air - (1928)
The Hound - (1924)
The Shunned House - (1928)

The Outsider and Others

Contents:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Outsider - essay by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
3 - Dagon - (1919) - shortstory
7 - Polaris - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - shortstory
10 - Celephais - [Dream Cycle] - (1922) - shortstory (variant of Celephaïs)
14 - Hypnos - [Dream Cycle] - (1922) - shortstory
19 - The Cats of Ulthar - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - shortstory
22 - The Strange High House in the Mist - [Dream Cycle] - (1931) - shortstory
28 - The Statement of Randolph Carter - [Randolph Carter] - (1920) - shortstory
32 - The Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1929) - shortstory
40 - Through the Gates of the Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1934) - novelette and E. Hoffmann Price [as ]
63 - The Outsider - [Dream Cycle] - (1926) - shortstory
67 - The Music of Erich Zann - (1922) - shortstory
73 - The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette
86 - Cool Air - (1928) - shortstory
92 - He - (1926) - shortstory
99 - The Horror at Red Hook - (1927) - novelette
113 - The Temple - (1925) - shortstory
121 - Arthur Jermyn - (1935) - shortstory (variant of The White Ape 1920)
127 - The Picture in the House - (1919) - shortstory
132 - The Festival - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1925) - shortstory
138 - The Terrible Old Man - (1921) - shortstory
140 - The Tomb - (1922) - shortstory
147 - The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
164 - In the Vault - (1925) - shortstory
170 - Pickman's Model - (1927) - shortstory
179 - The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
194 - The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
217 - The Thing on the Doorstep - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1937) - novelette
234 - The Nameless City - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1921) - shortstory
242 - The Lurking Fear - (1923) - shortstory
255 - The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette
274 - The Colour Out of Space - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1927) - novelette
292 - The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette
319 - The Whisperer in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - novella
359 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
400 - The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella
442 - At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
507 - Supernatural Horror in Literature - [Supernatural Horror in Literature] - (1927) - essay

The Terrible Old Man

The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness

In "The Terrible Old Man," the inhabitants of Kingsport are harboring a strange, secret person... or is he a person at all?

This story was originally published in The Tryout, July 1921. It has been printed many times. It was collected in The Outsider and Others (1939) and The Dunwich Horror and Others (1984) as well as a great many other Lovecraft compilations.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com.

The Doom That Came to Dunwich

One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes:

Imprisoned With the Pharaohs -- Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night.
At the Mountains of Madness -- An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland.
Herbert West: Reanimator -- Mad experiments yield hideous results in this, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator.
Cool Air -- An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock.
The Terrible Old Man -- The intruders seek a fortune but find only death!

AND TWENTY-FOUR MORE BLOOD-CHILLING TALES!

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Man Who Loved His Craft - (1996) - essay by Barbara Hambly
Early Tales - (1996) - essay by uncredited
The Beast in the Cave - (1918) - short story
The Alchemist - (1916) - short story
Poetry and the Gods - (1920) - short story by Anna Helen Crofts and H. P. Lovecraft
The Street - (1920) - short story
The Transition of Juan Romero - (1919) - short story
The Book - (1938) - short fiction
Dagon - (1919) - short story
The Tomb - (1922) - short story
Memory - (1923) - poem
The White Ship - [Dream Cycle] - (1919) - short story
Arthur Jermyn - (1935) - short story
The Temple - (1925) - short story
The Terrible Old Man - (1921) - short story
The Crawling Chaos - (1921) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft
The Tree - (1921) - short story
The Moon-Bog - (1926) - short story
Herbert West: Reanimator - [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] - (1922) - novelette
The Lurking Fear - (1928) - novelette
The Festival - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1925) - short story
The Unnamable - [Randolph Carter] - (1925) - short story
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs - (1924) - novelette
The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
He - (1926) - short story
The Horror at Red Hook - (1927) - novelette
Cool Air - (1928) - short story
Nathicana - (1927) - poem
At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
In the Walls of Eryx - (1939) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling
The Evil Clergyman - (1939) - short story

Richard A. Lupoff

"Did you know that DNA extracted from a laboratory mouse and injected into the cells of a common fruit fly has produced eyes on the legs of that fly? Eyes, young miss, eyes. Think of what you've just read."

Lovecraftian stories are the bread and butter of the true horror fan.

During his lifetime, Lovecraft himself encouraged other writers to develop stories in the vein we now call Lovecraftian: horror, based around the idea that Earth had been colonized by malign aliens in the remote past, long before mankind arose and became civilized, who eventually became worshipped and feared as evil Gods by their human servitors.

Eventually these aliens had been "banished" to another dimensional limbo by a benign Elder Race, but might one day return to reclaim the Earth "when the stars are right."

That deep seated unease threads through this collection of Richard. A Lupoff's short stories that seem to share a common universe.

Contents:

5 - Introduction (The Doom That Came to Dunwich) - essay by Philip Harbottle
11 - Acknowledgements (The Doom That Came to Dunwich) - essay by uncredited
13 - The Doom That Came to Dunwich - (1996) - short story
32 - The Secret of the Sahara - (2005) - novelette
58 - The Turret - (1995) - novelette
89 - The Peltonville Horror - (2004) - short fiction
105 - The Devil's Hop Yard - (1978) - novelette
121 - Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley - (1982) - novelette
160 - Brackish Waters - (2005) - novelette
189 - The Adventure of the Voorish Sign - (2003) - novelette
214 - Nothing Personal - (2010) - short story

Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You

Scotto Moore

I was home alone on a Saturday night when I experienced the most beautiful piece of music I had ever heard in my life.

Beautiful Remorse is the hot new band on the scene, releasing one track a day for ten days straight. Each track has a mysterious name and a strangely powerful effect on the band's fans.

A curious music blogger decides to investigate the phenomenon up close by following Beautiful Remorse on tour across Texas and Kansas, realizing along the way that the band’s lead singer, is hiding an incredible, impossible secret.

Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors

Adam Nevill

These selected terrors range from the speculative to supernatural horror, encompass the infernal and the occult, and include stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell.

Hasty for the Dark is the second short story collection from the award-winning and widely appreciated British writer of horror fiction, Adam L. G. Nevill. The author's best horror stories from 2009 to 2015 are collected here for the first time.

The hardest journeys in life and death are taken underground.
No blackmail is as ghastly as extortion from angels.
A swift reckoning often travels in handheld luggage.
Once considered inhumane and now derelict, this zoo may not be as empty as assumed.
A bad marriage, a killer couple, and part of a wider movement.
No sign of life aboard an abandoned freighter, but what is left below deck tells a strange story.
The origin of our species is not what we think.
In destitution, the future for revolution and mass murder is so bright.
Your memories may not be your own, and your life nothing more than a ritual that will compel you to perform an atrocity...

Table of Contents:

On All London Underground Lines - (2010) - short fiction
The Angels of London - (2013) - novelette
Always in Our Hearts - (2013) - short fiction
Eumenides (The Benevolent Ladies) - (2017) - short story
The Days of Our Lives - (2016) - short story
Hippocampus - (2015) - short story
Call the Name - (2015) - short fiction
White Light, White Heat - (2016) - short fiction
Little Black Lamb - (2017) - short story

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

Adam Nevill

In ghastly harmony with the nightmarish visions of the award-winning writer's novels, these stories blend a lifelong appreciation of horror culture with the grotesque fascinations and childlike terrors that are the author's own. Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2017.

Adam Nevill's best early horror stories are collected here for the first time.

A bestial face appears at windows in the night.
In the big white house on the hill angels are said to appear.
A forgotten tenant in an isolated building becomes addicted to milk.
A strange goddess is worshipped by a home-invading disciple.
The least remembered gods still haunt the oldest forests.
Cannibalism occurs in high society at the end of the world.
The sainted undead follow their prophet to the Great Dead Sea.
A confused and vengeful presence occupies the home of a first-time buyer...

The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

John Pelan

Descend to the depths of primal horror with this chilling collection of original stories drawn from H. P. Lovecraft's shocking, terrifying, and eerily prescient Cthulhu Mythos. In twenty-one dark visions, a host of outstanding contemporary writers tap into our innermost fears, with tales set in a misbegotten new world that could have been spawned only by the master of the macabre himself, H. P. Lovecraft.

Contents:

vii - Introduction: The Call of Lovecraft - essay by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams
1 - Details - shortstory by China Miéville
21 - Visitation - shortstory by James Robert Smith
33 - The Invisible Empire - novelette by James Van Pelt
57 - A Victorian Pot Dresser - novelette by L. H. Maynard and M. P. N. Sims
85 - The Cabin in the Woods - novelette by Richard Laymon
109 - The Stuff of the Stars, Leaking - shortstory by Tim Lebbon
125 - Sour Places - shortstory by Mark Chadbourn
141 - Meet Me on the Other Side - shortstory by Yvonne Navarro
161 - That's the Story of My Life - shortstory by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams
181 - Long Meg and Her Daughters - novella by Paul Finch
243 - A Fatal Exception Has Occurred At ... - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
261 - Dark of the Moon - shortstory by James S. Dorr
275 - Red Clay - shortstory by Michael Reaves [as by J. Michael Reaves ]
291 - Principles and Parameters - novelette by Meredith L. Patterson
325 - Are You Loathsome Tonight? - (1998) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
331 - The Serenade of Starlight - shortstory by W. H. Pugmire (variant of Serenade of Starlight) [as by W. H. Pugmire, Esq. ]
345 - Outside - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
355 - Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea - [Dandridge Cycle] - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
371 - A Spectacle of a Man - shortstory by Weston Ochse
389 - The Firebrand Symphony - (2001) - novelette by Brian Hodge
437 - Teeth - novelette by Matt Cardin
463 - Notes on the Contributors (Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft) - essay by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams

Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos

When H. P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers--among them his closest peers--added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from the pulp era that played a pivotal role in reflecting the master's dark vision.

Contents:

Fane of the Black Pharaoh - (1937) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
Introduction (Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos) - (1992) - essay by Robert M. Price
Ithaqua - (1941) - shortstory by August Derleth
Music of the Stars - (1943) - shortstory by Duane W. Rimel
Preface (Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos) - (1992) - essay by Robert Bloch
Spawn of the Green Abyss - (1946) - novelette by C. Hall Thompson
The Abyss - (1941) - shortstory by Robert A. W. Lowndes
The Aquarium - (1962) - shortstory by Carl Jacobi
The Bells of Horror - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
The Guardian of the Book - (1937) - shortstory by Henry Hasse
The Horror Out of Lovecraft - (1969) - shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim
The House of the Worm - (1933) - novelette by Mearle Prout
The Invaders - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
The Lair of the Star-Spawn - (1932) - novelette by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
The Lord of Illusion - (1982) - shortstory by E. Hoffmann Price
The Scourge of B'Moth - (1929) - novelette by Bertram Russell
The Seven Geases - [Hyperborea] - (1934) - novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
The Thing on the Roof - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1932) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
The Thing That Walked on the Wind - (1933) - shortstory by August Derleth
The Warder of Knowledge - (1992) - shortstory by Richard F. Searight
To Arkham and the Stars - (1966) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
The Fire of Asshurbanipal (alternative version) - (1972) - novelette by Robert E. Howard

The New Lovecraft Circle

Spontaneous Human Combustion

H. P. Lovecraft was the eerily prescient genius who first electrified readers in Weird Tales magazine. His tales changed the face of horror forever and inspired the bloodcurdling offerings of a new generation. These brilliant dark visionaries forge grisly trails through previously uncharted realms of mortal terror.

Contents:

ix - Preface (The New Lovecraft Circle) - essay by Ramsey Campbell
xi - Introduction (The New Lovecraft Circle) - essay by Robert M. Price
3 - The Plain of Sound - (1964) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
14 - The Stone on the Island - (1964) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
25 - The Statement of One John Gibson - (1984) - shortstory by Brian Lumley
43 - Demoniacal - (1972) - shortstory by David Sutton
51 - The Kiss of Bugg-Shash - (1978) - shortstory by Brian Lumley
67 - The Slitherer from the Slime - (1958) - shortstory by Lin Carter and Dave Foley [as by H. P. Lowcraft]
75 - The Doom of Yakthoob - [The Book of Episodes - 1] - (1971) - shortstory by Lin Carter
77 - The Fishers from Outside - (1988) - shortstory by Lin Carter
91 - The Keeper of the Flame - shortstory by Gary Myers
95 - Dead Giveaway - (1976) - shortstory by J. Vernon Shea
112 - Those Who Wait - novelette by James Wade
136 - The Keeper of Dark Point - (1967) - novelette by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby]
164 - The Black Mirror - novelette by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
190 - I've Come to Talk with You Again - (1995) - shortstory by Karl Edward Wagner
195 - The Howler in the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1984) - novelette by Richard L. Tierney
220 - The Horror on the Beach - (1976) - novelette by Alan Dean Foster
242 - The Whisperers - (1977) - shortstory by Richard A. Lupoff
257 - Lights! Camera! Shub-Niggurath! - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
287 - Saucers from Yaddith - (1984) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
303 - Vastarien - (1987) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
316 - The Madness Out of Space - (1982) - novelette by Peter Cannon [as by Peter H. Cannon ]
347 - Aliah Warden - (1985) - shortstory by Roger Johnson
355 - The Last Supper - (1981) - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
359 - The Church at Garlock's Bend - (1987) - shortstory by David Kaufman
372 - The Spheres Beyond Sound - (1987) - shortfiction by Stephen Mark Rainey [as by Mark Rainey]

The Grimscribe's Puppets

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Thomas Ligotti is beyond doubt one of the Grandmasters of Weird Fiction. In The Grimscribe's Puppets, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., has commissioned both new and established talents in the world of weird fiction and horror to contribute all new tales that pay homage to Ligotti and celebrate his eerie and essential nightmares. Poppy Z. Brite once asked, "Are you out there, Thomas Ligotti?" This anthology proves not only is he alive and well, but his extraordinary illuminations have proven to be a visionary and fertile source of inspiration for some of today's most accomplished authors.

Table of Contents:

Livia Llewellyn "Furnace"
Daniel Mills "The Lord Came at Twilight"
Michael Cisco "The Secrets of the Universe"
Kaaron Warren "The Human Moth"
Joel Lane "Basement Angels"
Darrell Schweitzer "No Signal"
Robin Spriggs "THE XENAMBULIST: A Fable in Four Acts"
Nicole Cushing "The Company Town"
Cody Goodfellow "The Man Who Escaped This Story"
Michael Kelly "Pieces of Blackness"
Eddie M. Angerhuber "The Blue Star"
Jon Padgett "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism"
Robert M. Price "The Holiness of Desolation"
Michael Griffin "Diamond Dust"
Richard Gavin "After the Final"
Scott Nicolay "Eyes Exchange Bank"
Simon Strantzas "By Invisible Hands"
Paul Tremblay "Where We Will All Be"
Allyson Bird "Gailestis"
Jeffrey Thomas "The Prosthesis"
John Langan "Into the Darkness, Fearlessly"
Gemma Files "Oubliette"

Cthulhu's Reign

Darrell Schweitzer

Some of the darkest hints in all of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos relate to what will happen after the Old Ones return and take over the earth. What happens when Cthulhu is unleashed upon the world? What happens when the other Old Ones, long since banished from our universe, break through and descend from the stars? What would the reign of Cthulhu be like on a totally transformed planet where mankind is no longer the master? Find out in these exciting, brand-new stories.

Contents:

1 - Introduction (Cthulhu's Reign) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
8 - The Walker in the Cemetery - novelette by Ian Watson
37 - Sanctuary - shortstory by Don Webb
56 - Her Acres of Pastoral Playground - shortstory by Mike Allen
73 - Spherical Trigonometry - shortstory by Ken Asamatsu
91 - What Brings the Void - novelette by Will Murray
112 - The New Pauline Corpus - shortstory by Matt Cardin
128 - Ghost Dancing - shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
139 - This Is How the World Ends - shortstory by John R. Fultz
150 - The Shallows - novelette by John Langan
176 - Such Bright and Risen Madness in Our Names - shortstory by Jay Lake
184 - The Seals of New R'lyeh - shortstory by Gregory Frost
200 - The Holocaust of Ecstasy - shortstory by Brian Stableford
218 - Vastation - shortstory by Laird Barron
236 - Nothing Personal - shortstory by Richard A. Lupoff
247 - Remnants - novella by Fred Chappell
303 - About the Authors (Cthulhu's Reign) - essay by uncredited
309 - About the Editor (Cthulhu's Reign) - essay by uncredited

Resume with Monsters

William Browning Spencer

Philip Kenan does not appear to be the most reliable narrator. Obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, he keeps malign cosmic entities at bay by constantly revising his novel, The Despicable Quest. While Philip's preoccupied with the monsters lurking behind every cubicle at his dead-end job, his exasperated girlfriend flees — heading straight into the horror that lies at the heart of the corporate world.

William Browning Spencer's imaginative update on Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos offers a witty and wicked satire of office culture. This macabre masterpiece from one of America's foremost cult authors won the 1995 International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Novel.

"If Woody Allen had ever written a Cthulhu Mythos novel, it might have come out like this." —The New York Review of Science Fiction

"An explosive story of menace, suspense, mystery, and love. Don't miss it." — Roger Zelazny

Author William Browning Spencer is "a brilliant writer of fantasy who's also a very considerable serious novelist." — Kirkus Reviews

Mr. X

Peter Straub

Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan is cursed with visions of horror committed by a savage figure he calls "Mr. X." This year, Ned's visions will become flesh and blood.

A dreadful premonition brings Ned home to find his mother on her deathbed. She reveals the never-before-disclosed name of his father and warns him of grave danger. Driven by a desperate sense of need, Ned explores his dark past and the astonishing legacy of his kin. Accused of violent crimes he has not committed and pursued by a shadowy twin, Ned enters a hidden world of ominous mysteries, where he must confront his deepest nightmares....

Richard Thomas

With a foreword by Brian Evenson.

In this new collection, Richard Thomas has crafted fourteen stories that push the boundaries of dark fiction in an intoxicating, piercing blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Equally provocative and profound, each story is masterfully woven with transgressive themes that burrow beneath the skin.

A poker game yields a strange prize that haunts one man, his game of chance now turned into a life-or-death coin flip.
A set of twins find they have mysterious new powers when an asteroid crashes in a field near their house, and the decisions they make create an uneasy balance.
A fantasy world is filled with one man's desire to feel whole again, finally finding love, only to have the shocking truth of his life exposed in an appalling twist.
A father and son work slave labor in a brave new world run by aliens and mount a rebellion that may end up freeing them all.
A clown takes off his make-up in a gloomy basement to reveal something more horrifying under the white, tacky skin.

Powerful and haunting, Thomas' transportive collection dares you to examine what lies in the darkest, most twisted corners of human existence and not be transformed by what you find.

The Kraken Sea

E. Catherine Tobler

Fifteen-year-old Jackson is different from the other children at the foundling hospital. Scales sometimes cover his arms. Tentacles coil just below his skin. Despite this Jackson tries to fit in with the other children. He tries to be normal for Sister Jerome Grace and the priests. But when a woman asks for a boy like him, all that changes. His name is pinned to his jacket and an orphan train whisks him across the country to Macquarie's.

At Macquarie's, Jackson finds a home unlike any he could have imagined. The bronze lions outside the doors eat whomever they deem unfit to enter, the hallways and rooms shift and change at will, and Cressida--the woman who adopted him--assures him he no longer has to hide what he is. But new freedoms hide dark secrets. There are territories, allegiances, and a kraken in the basement that eats shadows.

As Jackson learns more about the new world he's living in and about who he is, he has to decide who he will stand with: Cressida, the woman who gave him a home and a purpose, or Mae, the black-eyed lion tamer with a past as enigmatic as his own. The Kraken Sea is a fast paced adventure full of mystery, Fates, and writhing tentacles just below the surface, and in the middle of it all is a boy searching for himself.

Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology

Jim Turner

In Cthulhu 2000, a host of horror and fantasy's top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft--with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made the master proud.

Contents:

Cthulhu 2000 - essay by Jim Turner
The Barrens - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1989) - novella by F. Paul Wilson
Pickman's Modem - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1992) - shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Shaft Number 247 - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1980) - novelette by Basil Copper
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1990) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
The Adder - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1989) - shortstory by Fred Chappell
Fat Face - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1987) - novelette by Michael Shea
The Big Fish - [The Diogenes Club] - (1993) - novelette by Kim Newman
"I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket ... But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!" - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1964) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
H.P.L. - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1990) - novelette by Gahan Wilson
The Unthinkable - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1991) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Black Man with a Horn - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1980) - novelette by T. E. D. Klein
Love's Eldritch Ichor - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1990) - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
The Last Feast of Harlequin - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1990) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
The Shadow on the Doorstep - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1986) - shortstory by James P. Blaylock
Lord of the Land - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1990) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
The Faces at Pine Dunes - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1980) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
On the Slab - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1981) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1985) - novella by Roger Zelazny

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology

Jim Turner

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)

The Web of Easter Island

Donald Wandrei

The Web of Easter Island was first written in 1932 under the title Dead Titans, Waken!. The manuscript was rejected by several publishers including Harper & Brothers, but was eventually revised and published by Arkham House. It is loosely related to the Cthulhu Mythos (it is dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft) and follows the exploits of Carter E. Graham from England to Easter Island, where ancient horror is discovered and combated.

Dead Titans, Waken! has been edited for publication by S.T. Joshi and was to have been issued during the 1990s by Fedogan and Bremer, however, it was finally published by Centipede Press in a limited edition of 300 copies in March 2012.

The Mind Parasites

Colin Wilson

The story is about Professor Gilbert Austin's conflict with the Tsathogguans, invisible mind parasites that menace the most brilliant people on earth.

A Dreamer and a Visionary: H. P. Lovecraft in His Time

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognized as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature?

S. T. Joshi, the leading authority on Lovecraft, traces in detail the course of Lovecraft's life and shows how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social and intellectual currents of his time.

Wrath of N'kai

Arkham Horror: Book 1

Josh Reynolds

An international thief of esoteric artifacts stumbles onto a nightmarish cult in 1920s New England...

Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror gestating within it.

The Last Ritual

Arkham Horror: Book 2

S. A. Sidor

A mad surrealist's art threatens to rip open the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch horror and conspiracy...

Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists quickly fall under his charismatic spell. Balthazarr throws a string of decadent parties for Arkham's social elite, conjuring arcane illusions which blur the boundaries between nightmare and reality. Only slowly does Alden come to suspect that Balthazarr's mock rituals are intended to break through those walls and free what lies beyond. Alden must act, but it might already be too late to save himself, let alone Arkham.

Mask of Silver

Arkham Horror: Book 3

Rosemary Jones

A stunning return to Arkham Horror when a movie director shoots his silent horror masterpiece in eerie Arkham, capturing crawling nightmares instead of moving pictures, in this chilling novel of creeping dread...

Hollywood make-up artist and costumier, Jeany Lin, travels to Arkham to work on the new "nightmare movie" by enigmatic director Sydney Fitzmaurice. The star is her sister, Renee Love, Sydney's collaborator and lover. Desperate to outdo the thrills and terror of Lon Chaney's popular pictures, Sydney prepares occult-infused dream sequences for Love and her co-stars to perform. But there's more than mere imagery at play as the cast suffer recurring nightmares, accidents, and impossible waking visions. When events take a sinister turn and people start dying on set, it's up to Jeany to unmask the monsters before Sydney's obsessions doom them all.

Litany of Dreams

Arkham Horror: Book 4

Ari Marmell

Dark incantations expose the minds of Miskatonic University students to supernatural horrors...

The mysterious disappearance of a gifted student at Miskatonic University spurs his troubled roommate, Elliot Raslo, into an investigation of his own. But Elliot already struggles against the maddening allure of a ceaseless chant that only he can hear... When Elliot's search converges with that of a Greenland Inuk's hunt for a stolen relic, they are left with yet more questions. Could there be a connection between Elliot's litany and the broken stone stele covered in antediluvian writings that had obsessed his friend? Learning the answers will draw them into the heart of a devilish plot to rebirth an ancient horror.

Cult of the Spider Queen

Arkham Horror: Book 6

S. A. Sidor

An ancient horror deep in the Amazon jungle spins a web of nightmares to ensnare adventurers, explorers, and their souls, in this skin-crawling Arkham Horror novel of cosmic dread.

When Arkham Advertiser reporter Andy van Nortwick receives a mysterious film reel in the mail, with a simple note: "Maude Brion is very much alive!", he steps onto a path which will lead him to the brink of madness. Brion, the famous actress and film director, vanished a year ago on an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon rainforest, delving into the legend of the Spider Queen. Thrilled by the prospect of his big break, Nortwick swings the funds to launch a rescue mission. He gathers a team of explorers and a keen folklorist to bring back Brion and cement his reputation. But deep in the Amazon jungle, the boundaries between intrepid adventurers, dreamers, and deranged fanatics blur inside a web of terror.

The Deadly Grimoire

Arkham Horror: Book 7

Rosemary Jones

A daring actress and a barnstorming pilot team up to save the world from supernatural disaster in this uncanny pulp adventure set in the world of Arkham Horror...

Betsy Baxter is the plucky stunt-actor star of the 1920s serial adventure, The Flapper Detective. While researching a wing-walking scene, she meets the fearless Winifred Habbamock and discovers a shared background of eerie encounters and eldritch phenomena. For years, Betsy has been investigating the disappearance of an old friend during the horror-struck filming of The Mask of Silver, when she learns of his reappearance in Arkham, she and Winifred hit the road to investigate. But Arkham is full of mysteries and danger. Betsy will need all her skills, and new allies, to prevent an otherworldly cataclysm from consuming her and all of Arkham.

Secrets in Scarlet

Arkham Horror: Book 8

Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells

A secret organization ruthlessly seeks power over supernatural terrors in this globe-trotting anthology of arcane mystery and adventure...

Beyond our world lies another, one full of paranormal forces and eldritch horrors, and once that membrane has been pierced, life can never be the same again. In every corner of the globe, persons unknown are seizing objects of extreme supernatural power. They declare themselves defenders of humanity, fighting off the darkness which presses against the veil shrouding our reality from the unknowable. But do their claims of altruism ring true? And should they be permitted to wield such power? From the world of Arkham Horror comes an exciting new anthology that delves into new mysteries.

Contents:

7 - The Man in the Bubble - short story by David Annandale
29 - City of Waking Dreams - novelette by Davide Mana
73 - Brother Bound - novelette by Jason Fischer
107 - Honor Among Thieves - novelette by Carrie Harris
147 - A Forty Grain Weight of Nephrite - novelette by Steven Philip Jones
189 - Strange Things Done - novelette by Lisa Smedman
233 - In Art, Truth - novelette by James Fadeley
277 - Crossing Stars - novelette by M. J. Newman
325 - The Red and the Black - short story by Josh Reynolds

Shadow of Pnath

Arkham Horror: Book 9

Josh Reynolds

An expert thief outwits foes old and new to defeat a sinister summoning, in this hair-raising noir-thriller from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror...

Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she stole to put into the safer hands of Miskatonic University. With her new apprentice, Pepper Kelly, Zorzi tracks the infamous Zanthu Tablets to Paris. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies. When Pepper is kidnapped, it becomes clear that someone is out for revenge. Zorzi must rescue her apprentice, find the tablets, and prevent an old enemy from summoning an army of vengeful ghouls from the depths of the catacombs. Stealing relics is a lot harder the second time around...

Lair of the Crystal Fang

Arkham Horror: Book 10

S. A. Sidor

When a mysterious killer haunts Arkham, three struggling investigators must confront the eldritch horrors of their past...

In the swirling sewers beneath Arkham, excavators uncover a crystalline formation that hints at dark events from the city's past. As the discovery makes headlines, so too does a series of bizarre murders. With no leads, the Arkham police are always one step behind. Acting on a hunch, down-on-his luck former journalist Andy Van Nortwick reunites with adventurer Jake Williams and struggling filmmaker Maude Brion to unearth the truth. The trio know of the supernatural horrors that lurk beyond this world, and the reality haunts them. But time is running out and between them they must face their nightmares before the city of Arkham is lost to blood and chaos.

The Ravening Deep

Arkham Horror: Book 11

Tim Pratt

A nightmarish power unleashed from the depths infiltrates Arkham...

When dissolute fisherman Abel Davenport discovers an ancient temple in the deep ocean, he under the influence of a long dead god. In his attempts to restore the god's cult, Abel unleashes a plague of twisted doppelgangers on Arkham. Horrified by the consequences, Davenport realizes that he alone cannot stop the monsters from resurrecting the Ancient One. Sometimes the only way to end one cult is to start another... Teaming up with redeemed cultist Diana Stanley and notorious thief Ruby Standish is the first step. The second is convincing Carl Sanford, the powerful leader of Arkham's Silver Twilight Lodge, to join their cause. Together they might be the only hope of averting a cataclysmic eldritch invasion.

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Book 15

Black Wings of Cthulhu: 21 Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Collection of early Lovecraft stories inspired by Lord Dunsany.

Table of Contents:

About The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and H. P. Lovecraft: Through the Gates of Deeper Slumber - essay by Lin Carter
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - (1943) - novella
Celephais - (1922) - shortstory
The Silver Key - (1929) - shortstory
Through the Gates of the Silver Key - (1934) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price
The White Ship - (1919) - shortstory
The Strange High House in the Mist - (1931) - shortstory
Postscript About The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and H. P. Lovecraft - (1966) - poem by Lin Carter

Beneath the Rising

Beneath the Rising: Book 1

Premee Mohamed

HOPE HAS A PRICE

Nick Prasad has always enjoyed a quiet life in the shadow of his best friend, child prodigy and technological genius Joanna 'Johnny' Chambers. But all that is about to end.

When Johnny invents a clean reactor that could eliminate fossil fuels and change the world, she awakens primal, evil Ancient Ones set on subjugating humanity.

From the oldest library in the world to the ruins of Nineveh, hunted at every turn, they will need to trust each other completely to survive...

A Broken Darkness

Beneath the Rising: Book 2

Premee Mohamed

It's been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force their way into the world from the shapeless void.

Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity - including his former friend Johnny.

Right on cue, the unveiling of Johnny's latest experiment sees more portals opened to Them, leaving her protesting her innocence even as the two of them are thrown together to fight the darkness once more...

The Void Ascendant

Beneath the Rising: Book 3

Premee Mohamed

SURVIVAL HAS CONSEQUENCES

Seven years ago, the last survivor of Earth crashed through uncountable dimensions to a strange new world. Nick Prasad found shelter, and a living, as a prophet for the ruling family--servants of the Ancient Ones who destroyed his home.

Now, he's been offered a chance to rid the multiverse of the Ancient Ones, past and present and forever, although he'll have to betray his new masters to do it.

The first step is jailbreaking a god--and that's the easy part...

Bird Box

Bird Box: Book 1

Josh Malerman

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world--a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.

Something is out there...

Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.

Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat--blindfolded--with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster?

Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey--a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Under the guidance of the stalwart Tom, a motely group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror, creating order from the chaos. But when supplies ran low, they were forced to venture outside--and confront the ultimate question: in a world gone mad, who can really be trusted?

Interweaving past and present, Josh Malerman's breathtaking debut is a horrific and gripping snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Book 1

Black Wings of Cthulhu 2: 18 Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Contents:

Introduction - (2010) - essay by S. T. Joshi
Pickman's Other Model (1929) - (2008) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Desert Dreams - (2010) - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
Engravings - (2010) - shortstory by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Copping Squid - (2009) - novelette by Michael Shea
Passing Spirits - (2010) - shortstory by Sam Gafford
The Broadsword - (2010) - novella by Laird Barron
Usurped - (2010) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
Denker's Book - (2010) - shortstory by David J. Schow
Inhabitants of Wraithwood - (2010) - novelette by W. H. Pugmire
The Dome - (2010) - shortstory by Mollie L. Burleson
Rotterdam - (2010) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
Tempting Providence - (2010) - novelette by Jonathan Thomas
Howling in the Dark - (2010) - shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
The Truth About Pickman - (2010) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
Tunnels - (2010) - shortstory by Philip Haldeman
The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash - (2010) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
Violence, Child of Trust - (2010) - shortstory by Michael Cisco
Lesser Demons - (2010) - novelette by Norman Partridge
An Eldritch Matter - (2010) - shortstory by Adam Niswander
Substitutions - (2010) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
Susie - (2010) - shortstory by Jason Van Hollander

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Book 2

Black Wings of Cthulhu 3: 17 Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Contents:

7 - Introduction: "Black Wings of Cthulhu 2" - (2012) - essay by S. T. Joshi
11 - When Death Wakes Me to Myself - (2012) - shortfiction by John Shirley
45 - View - (2012) - shortfiction by Tom Fletcher
61 - Houndwife - (2012) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
85 - King of Cat Swamp - (2012) - shortfiction by Jonathan Thomas
107 - Dead Media - (2012) - shortfiction by Nick Mamatas
125 - The Abject - (2012) - shortfiction by Richard Gavin
149 - Dahlias - (2012) - shortfiction by Melanie Tem
159 - Bloom - (2012) - shortfiction by John Langan
195 - And the Sea Gave Up the Dead - (2012) - shortfiction by Jason C. Eckhardt
213 - Casting Call - (2012) - shortfiction by Don Webb
231 - The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with the Hundred Knives - (2012) - shortfiction by Darrell Schweitzer
251 - The Other Man - (2012) - shortfiction by Nicholas Royle
263 - Waiting at the Crossroads Motel - (2012) - shortfiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
275 - The Wilcox Remainder - (2012) - shortfiction by Brian Evenson
291 - Correlated Discontents - (2012) - shortfiction by Rick Dakan
317 - The Skinless Face - (2012) - shortfiction by Donald Tyson
353 - The History of a Letter - (2012) - shortstory by Jason V Brock
369 - Appointed - (2012) - shortfiction by Chet Williamson

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Book 3

Black Wings of Cthulhu 4: 17 New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Contents:

China Holiday - (2014) - novelette by Peter Cannon
Dimply Dolly Doofy - (2014) - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
Down Black Staircases - (2014) - novelette by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Further Beyond - (2014) - novella by Brian Stableford
Hotel del Lago - (2014) - shortstory by Mollie L. Burleson
Houdini Fish - (2014) - novelette by Jonathan Thomas
Introduction (Black Wings of Cthulhu 3) - (2014) - essay by S. T. Joshi
Necrotic Cove - (2014) - shortstory by Lois H. Gresh [as by Lois Gresh ]
One Tree Hill (The World as Cataclysm) - (2013) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Spiderwebs in the Dark - (2014) - novelette by Darrell Schweitzer
The Hag Stone - (2014) - novelette by Richard Gavin
The Man with the Horn - (2014) - shortstory by Jason V Brock
The Megalith Plague - (2014) - shortstory by Don Webb
The Turn of the Tide - (2014) - shortstory by Mark Howard Jones
Thistle's Find - (2014) - shortstory by Simon Strantzas
Underneath an Arkham Moon - (2014) - shortstory by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and W. H. Pugmire
Waller - (2014) - novella by Donald Tyson
Weltschmerz - (2014) - novelette by Sam Gafford

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Book 4

Black Wings of Cthulhu 6: Twenty-One New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Contents:

A Prism of Darkness - (2015) - shortfiction by Darrell Schweitzer
Black Ships Seen South of Heaven - (2015) - shortfiction by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Broken Sleep - (2015) - shortfiction by Cody Goodfellow
Contact - (2015) - shortfiction by John Pelan and Stephen Mark Rainey
Cult of the Dead - (2015) - shortfiction by Lois H. Gresh
Dark Redeemer - (2015) - shortfiction by Will Murray
Fear Lurks Atop Tempest Mount - (2015) - shortfiction by Charles Lovecraft
Half Lost in Shadow - (2015) - shortstory by W. H. Pugmire
In the Event of Death - (2015) - shortfiction by Simon Strantzas
Night of the Piper - (2015) - shortfiction by Ann K. Schwader
Revival - (2015) - shortfiction by Stephen Woodworth
Sealed by the Moon - (2015) - shortfiction by Gary Fry
The Dark Sea Within - (2015) - shortfiction by Jason V Brock
The Rasping Absence - (2015) - shortfiction by Richard Gavin
The Wall of Asshur-sin - (2015) - shortfiction by Donald Tyson
Trophy - (2015) - shortfiction by Melanie Tem
We Are Made of Stars - (2015) - shortfiction by Jonathan Thomas

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Book 6

Black Wings VII: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Volume 6 in the successful and critically acclaimed series of Lovecraftian horror anthologies by the most prominent acolytes of the horror master.

From claustrophobic fear in isolated New England towns to terrifying threats that span the infinite cosmos, the tales herein are fuelled by H. P. Lovecraft's creations. While his horrors originate in a vast cosmos outside of space and time, the terrors they bring strike ordinary humans caught up in conflicts far beyond their control.

Contents:

Introduction - essay by S. T. Joshi (2017)
Pothunters - (2017) - novelette by Ann K. Schwader
The Girl in the Attic - (2017) - short story by Darrell Schweitzer
The Once and Future Waite - (2017) - novelette by Jonathan Thomas
Oude Goden - (2017) - short story by Lynne Jamneck
Carnivorous - (2017) - short story by William F. Nolan
On a Dreamland's Moon - (2017) - poem by Ashley Dioses
Teshtigo Creek - (2017) - short story by Aaron Bittner
Ex Libris - (2012) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
You Shadows That in Darkness Dwell - (2017) - short story by Mark Howard Jones
The Ballad of Asenath Waite - (2017) - poem by Adam Bolivar
The Visitor - (2017) - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
The Gaunt - (2017) - short story by Tom Lynch
Missing at the Morgue - (2017) - short story by Donald Tyson
The Shard - (2017) - short story by Don Webb
The Mystery of the Cursed Cottage - (2017) - short story by David Hambling
To Court the Night - (2017) - poem by K. A. Opperman
To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks - (2017) - short story by W. H. Pugmire
Mister Ainsley - (2017) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
Satiety - (2017) - short story by Jason V Brock
Provenance Unknown - (2017) - novelette by Stephen Woodworth
The Well - (2017) - poem by D. L. Myers

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Book 7

The Wreck of the 'Charles Dexter Ward'

This seventh volume of S. T. Joshi's acclaimed Black Wings series features an international cast of contributors who use the work of H. P. Lovecraft as a springboard for powerful and thought-provoking tales that probe the terrors and uncertainties of life in the twenty-first century.

Lovecraft was a devotee of science, but he recognised that science's role in human life is ambiguous. In this volume, Katherine Kerestman, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Donald Tyson probe the sense of human insignificance that science brings in its wake. Lovecraft knew that realism of setting fostered his signature contribution of cosmicism. Stories by Donald R. Burleson, Nancy Kilpatrick, Geoffrey Reiter, and Aditya Dwarkesh take us from the frozen realm of Antarctica to the sweltering heat of Calcutta; from ancient New England to the remote stretches of Pennsylvania. Tales by David Hambling and Mark Howard Jones tease out weirdness even in the familiar locales of Great Britain.

Contents:

Introduction -- S. T. Joshi
The Resonances -- Ramsey Campbell
Er Lasst Sich Nicht Lesen -- Steven Woodworth
How Curwen Got His Hundred Years -- Jonathan Thomas
The Pit of G'narrh -- Donald R. Burleson
Open Adoption -- Ann K. Schwader
The Lime Kiln -- Geoffrey Reiter
Father Thames -- David Hambling
Who Killed Augustus Bourbaki? -- Aditya Dwarkesh
Can We Keep Him? -- Darrell Schweitzer
The Things We Do Not See -- Steve Rasnic Tem
Global Warming -- Katherine Kerestman
A Very Old Song Mark -- Howard Jones
Deception Island -- Nancy Kilpatrick
And The Devil Hath Power -- John Shirley
The Amber Toad -- Donald Tyson
An Elemental Infestation -- Mark Samuels
With Eyes Opened -- Ngo Binh Anh Khoa

Boojum: Book 3

Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Bear

This novelette originally appeared in two installments in audio format at Drablecast, Augusts/September 2012. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (2013), edited by Gardner Dozois, and New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird (2015), edited by Paula Guran.

Listen to the full story for free at Drabblecast - Part 1 - Part 2.

The Book of Cthulhu

Book of Cthulhu: Book 1

Ross E. Lockhart

The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century''s most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of the 21st century have planted their seeds in this fertile soil. The Book of Cthulhu harvests the weirdest and most corpulent crop of these modern mythos tales. From weird fiction masters to enigmatic rising stars, The Book of Cthulhu demonstrates how Mythos fiction has been a major cultural meme throughout the 20th century, and how this type of story is still salient, and terribly powerful today.

Contents:

Introduction (The Book of Cthulhu) - essay by Ross E. Lockhart
Andromeda Among the Stones - [Dandridge Cycle] - (2002) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Tugging - (1976) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
A Colder War - (2000) - novelette by Charles Stross
The Unthinkable - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1991) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Flash Frame - (2011) - shortstory by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Some Buried Memory - shortfiction by W. H. Pugmire
The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins - (2011) - shortstory by Molly Tanzer
Fat Face - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1987) - novelette by Michael Shea
Shoggoths in Bloom - (2008) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
Black Man with a Horn - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1980) - novelette by T. E. D. Klein
Than Curse the Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1980) - novelette by David Drake
Jeroboam Henley's Debt - (1982) - shortstory by Charles R. Saunders
Nethescurial - (1991) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
Calamari Curls - (2006) - shortstory by Kage Baker
Jihad Over Innsmouth - (2007) - shortstory by Edward R. Morris [as by Edward Morris ]
Bad Sushi - (2007) - novelette by Cherie Priest
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife - shortfiction by John Hornor Jacobs
The Doom That Came to Innsmouth - (1999) - shortstory by Brian McNaughton
Lost Stars - (2003) - shortstory by Ann K. Schwader
The Oram County Whoosit - (2008) - novelette by Steve Duffy
The Crawling Sky - [Reverend Jedidiah Mercer] - (2009) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
The Fairground Horror - (1976) - novelette by Brian Lumley
Cinderlands - (2010) - shortstory by Tim Pratt
Lord of the Land - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1990) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
To Live and Die in Arkham - (2010) - shortfiction by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
The Shallows - (2010) - novelette by John Langan
The Men from Porlock - shortfiction by Laird Barron

The Book of Cthulhu 2

Book of Cthulhu: Book 2

Ross E. Lockhart

When Night Shade Books unleashed The Book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world, it was critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond.

For nearly a century, H. P. Lovecraft's tales of malevolent Great Old Ones existing beyond the dimensions of this world, beyond the borders of sanity, have captured and held the imaginations of writers and aficionados of the dark, the macabre, the fantastic, and the horrible. Now, because you demanded more, anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has risked all to dive back into the Cthulhu canon, combing through mind-shattering manuscripts and moldering tomes to bring you The Book of Cthulhu II, with even more tales of tentacles, terror, and madness.

Featuring monstrous stories by many of weird fiction's brightest lights, The Book of Cthulhu II brings you even more tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's greatest creation: The Cthulhu mythos.

This year, the stars are right...

Contents:

Introduction - essay by Ross E. Lockhart
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar - (1998) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea (1957) - (2002) - shortfiction by Caitlín R. Kiernan
This Is How the World Ends - (2010) - shortstory by John R. Fultz
The Drowning at Lake Henpin - shortfiction by Paul Tobin
The Ocean and All Its Devices - (1994) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
Take Your Daughters to Work - (2007) - shortstory by Livia Llewellyn
The Big Fish - (1993) - novelette by Kim Newman
Rapture of the Deep - (2009) - shortstory by Cody Goodfellow
Once More, from the Top - (2001) - shortstory by Adam Scott Glancy
The Hour of the Tortoise - shortfiction by Molly Tanzer
I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee - shortstory by Christopher Reynaga
Objects from the Gilman-Waite Collection - (2003) - shortstory by Ann K. Schwader
Of Melei, of Ulthar - (2009) - shortstory by Gord Sellar
A Gentleman from Mexico - (2007) - shortstory by Mark Samuels
The Hands That Reek and Smoke - (2008) - shortfiction by W. H. Pugmire
Akropolis - (2007) - shortstory by Matt Wallace
Boojum - (2008) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Nyarlathotep Event - (2011) - shortfiction by Jonathan Wood
The Black Brat of Dunwich - (1997) - shortstory by Stanley C. Sargent
The Terror from the Depths - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1976) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
Black Hill - (2011) - shortstory by Orrin Grey
The God of Dark Laughter - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Chabon
Sticks - (1974) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
Hand of Glory - shortfiction by Laird Barron

The Hastur Cycle: Second Revised Edition

Call of Cthulhu: Book 1

Singers of Strange Songs: A Celebration of Brian Lumley

Contents:

The Hastur Cycle: Second Revised Edition - interior artwork by Earl Geier
vii - The Mythology of Hastur - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
vii - Carcosa - (1969) - poem by Richard L. Tierney
1 - Haïta the Shepherd - (1891) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
7 - An Inhabitant of Carcosa - (1886) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
11 - The Repairer of Reputations - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
38 - The Yellow Sign - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
54 - The River of Night's Dreaming - (1981) - novella by Karl Edward Wagner
84 - More Light - (1970) - novelette by James Blish
113 - The Novel of the Black Seal - (1895) - novelette by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the Black Seal)
145 - The Whisperer in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - novella by H. P. Lovecraft
199 - Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley - (1982) - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
233 - The Mine on Yuggoth - (1964) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
244 - Planetfall on Yuggoth - (1972) - shortstory by James Wade
248 - The Return of Hastur - (1939) - novelette by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth ]
271 - The Feaster from Afar - (1976) - shortstory by Joseph Payne Brennan
283 - Black Lotus - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 20] - (1965) - poem by Lin Carter
283 - The Unspeakable - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 21] - (1965) - poem by Lin Carter
284 - Carcosa - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 22] - (1961) - poem by Lin Carter
284 - The Candidate - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 23] - (1965) - poem by Lin Carter
285 - Carcosa Story about Hali - (1989) - shortstory by Lin Carter
288 - King in Yellow: A Tragedy in Verse - (1993) - shortstory by Lin Carter and Robert M. Price [as by Lin Carter]

Call of Cthulhu: Book 2

Scott David Aniolowski

Contents:

Singers of Strange Songs: A Celebration of Brian Lumley - interior artwork by Allen Koszowski
ix - Introduction: The Caller of the Black and the Lord of the Worms - essay by Scott David Aniolowski
1 - City Out of Time - (1977) - poem by Brian Lumley
2 - Cement Surroundings - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1969) - novelette by Brian Lumley
21 - Bad Soil - shortstory by Don D'Ammassa
34 - The Temple of Yig - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
43 - Not to Force the Rhymes - novelette by Benjamin Adams
69 - In His Daughter's Darkling Womb - novelette by Tina L. Jens
94 - The Reliable Vacuum Company - shortstory by James Robert Smith
107 - The Nullity of Choice - shortstory by John Tynes
118 - Where I Go, Mi-Go - shortstory by Lois H. Gresh
135 - Subway Accident - shortstory by Gregory Nicoll
140 - The High Rollers - shortstory by James Robert Smith and Benjamin Adams
158 - A Forty Share in Innsmouth - shortstory by C. J. Henderson
168 - Shudder Wyrm - novelette by Stephen Mark Rainey
187 - Spaghetti - (1985) - novella by Brian Lumley

The Scroll of Thoth: Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones

Call of Cthulhu: Book 3

Richard L. Tierney

Contents:

The Scroll of Thoth - interior artwork by Dave Carson
ix - Introduction: Sword of the Avatar - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - The Sword of Spartacus - [Simon of Gitta] - (1978) - novelette
18 - The Fire of Mazda - [Simon of Gitta] - (1984) - novelette
55 - The Seed of the Star-God - [Simon of Gitta] - (1984) - novelette
92 - The Blade of the Slayer - [Simon of Gitta] - (1986) - shortstory
112 - The Soul of Kephri - [Simon of Gitta] - (1984) - novelette
149 - The Ring of Set - [Simon of Gitta] - (1977) - novelette
172 - The Worm of Urakhu - [Simon of Gitta] - (1988) - novelette
208 - Curse of the Crocodile - [Simon of Gitta] - (1987) - shortstory
227 - The Treasure of Horemkhu - [Simon of Gitta] - (1987) - novelette
262 - The Scroll of Thoth - [Simon of Gitta] - (1977) - novelette
277 - The Dragons of Mons Fractus - [Simon of Gitta] - (1984) - novelette
313 - The Pillars of Melkarth - [Simon of Gitta] - (1990) - novella

The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones

Call of Cthulhu: Book 4

The Complete Pegana: All the Tales Pertaining to the Realm of Pegana

Contents:

The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones - interior artwork by Dave Carson
vii - Introduction: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - essay by Robert M. Price
xv - The Innsmouth Look - interior artwork by David T. Pudelwitts
1 - Of Yoharneth-Lahai - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
3 - The Harbor-Master - (1899) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
24 - Fishhead - (1913) - shortstory by Irvin S. Cobb
34 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
88 - The Deep Ones - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1969) - novelette by James Wade
120 - A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth - (1969) - shortstory by James Wade
125 - The Innsmouth Head - (1975) - shortstory by Franklyn Searight
142 - Innsmouth Gold - (1986) - shortstory by Henry J. Vester, III
165 - Custos Sanctorum - (1987) - shortstory by Roger Johnson
178 - Rapture in Black - (1988) - shortstory by Stephen Mark Rainey
189 - Live Bait - (1996) - shortstory by Stanley C. Sargent
206 - Devil Reef - shortstory by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
224 - The Transition of Zadok Allen - (1995) - shortstory by Robert M. Price [as by Lewis Theobald, III ]
230 - Shadow Over Innsmouth - (1942) - poem by Virginia Anderson
231 - Innsmouth--Dread City by the Sea - (1950) - poem by R. Flavie Carson
232 - After Innsmouth - (1990) - poem by Ann K. Schwader

Call of Cthulhu: Book 5

Lord Dunsany

Contents:

vii - Introduction (The Complete Pegana) - (1998) - essay by S. T. Joshi
1 - The Gods of Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905) - collection
7 - The Gods of Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
8 - Of Skarl the Drummer - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
9 - Of the Making of the Worlds - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
11 - Of the Game of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
13 - The Chaunt of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
14 - The Sayings of Kib - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
15 - Concerning Sish - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
17 - The Sayings of Slid - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
20 - The Deeds of Mung - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
22 - The Chaunt of the Priests - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
23 - The Sayings of Limpang-Tung - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
25 - Of Yoharneth-Lahai - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
26 - Of Roon, the God of Going - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
30 - The Revolt of the Home Gods - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
33 - Of Dorozhand - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
35 - The Eye in the Waste - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
37 - Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
40 - Yonath the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
42 - Yug the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
43 - Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
44 - Kabok the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
46 - Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
48 - Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
51 - Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
54 - Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
57 - Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
60 - The Sayings of Imbaun - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
62 - Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
63 - Of Ood - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
64 - The River - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
67 - The Bird of Doom and the End - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
69 - Time and the Gods - (1906) - collection
73 - Time and the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
77 - The Coming of the Sea - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
82 - A Legend of the Dawn - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
89 - The Vengeance of Men - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
93 - When the Gods Slept - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
100 - The King That Was Not - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
103 - The Cave of Kai - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
109 - The Sorrow of Search - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
116 - The Men of Yarnith - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
123 - For the Honour of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
127 - Night and Morning - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
130 - Usury - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
133 - Mlideen - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
135 - The Secret of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
138 - The South Wind - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
141 - In the Land of Time - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
150 - The Relenting of Sarnidac - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
155 - The Jest of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
156 - The Dreams of a Prophet - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory (variant of The Dreams of the Prophet)
159 - The Journey of the King - [Pegana] - (1906) - novelette
195 - Beyond the Fields We Know - [Pegana] - (1919) - essay
199 - Idle Days on the Yann - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 1] - (1910) - shortstory
217 - A Shop in Go-by Street - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 2] - (1912) - shortstory
225 - The Avenger of Perdóndaris - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 3] - (1912) - shortstory

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror

Call of Cthulhu: Book 6

Daniel Harms

Contents:

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: Second Edition - (1998) - interior artwork by Dave Carson
Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: Second Edition - interior artwork by Dave Carson
Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: Second Edition - interior artwork by M. Wayne Miller
vii - Foreword to the First Edition (Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: Second Edition) - essay by Daniel Harms
363 - Appendix A: History of the Necronomicon - essay by Daniel Harms (variant of Appendix A: Chronology of the History of the Necronomicon 1994)
376 - Appendix B: Locations of the Necronomicon - (1994) - essay by Daniel Harms
382 - Appendix C: Contents of the Necronomicon - essay by Daniel Harms (variant of Appendix C: Some Contents of the Necronomicon 1994)
385 - Appendix D: Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos - essay by Shannon Appel
407 - Bibliography (Encyclopedia Cthulhiana) - (1994) - essay by Daniel Harms

The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-Walker of the Icy Wastes

Call of Cthulhu: Book 7

Contents:

The Ithaqua Cycle - interior artwork by Dave Carson
ix - Ghost Riders in the Sky - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - About "The Wendigo" - essay by Robert M. Price
2 - The Wendigo - (1910) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
40 - About "The Thing from Outside" - essay by Robert M. Price
41 - The Thing from Outside - (1923) - shortstory by George Allan England (variant of The Thing From--"Outside")
57 - About "The Thing That Walked on the Wind" - essay by Robert M. Price
58 - The Thing That Walked on the Wind - (1933) - shortstory by August Derleth
68 - About "The Snow-Thing" - essay by Robert M. Price
69 - The Snow-Thing - (1941) - shortstory by August Derleth (variant of Ithaqua)
80 - About "Beyond the Threshold" - essay by Robert M. Price
81 - Beyond the Threshold - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1941) - novelette by August Derleth
102 - About "Born of the Winds" - essay by Robert M. Price
103 - Born of the Winds - (1975) - novelette by Brian Lumley
145 - About "Spawn of the North" - essay by Robert M. Price
146 - Spawn of the North - (1975) - shortstory by George C. Diezel, II and Gordon Linzner
161 - About "They Only Come Out at Night" - essay by Robert M. Price
162 - They Only Come Out at Night - (1975) - shortstory by Randy Medoff
169 - About "Footsteps in the Sky" - essay by Robert M. Price
170 - Footsteps in the Sky - (1986) - shortstory by Pierre Comtois
187 - About "Jendick's Swamp" - essay by Robert M. Price
188 - Jendick's Swamp - (1987) - shortstory by Joseph Payne Brennan
200 - About "The Wind Has Teeth" - essay by Robert M. Price
201 - The Wind Has Teeth - (1990) - novelette by G. Warlock Vance and Scott H. Urban
219 - About "Stalker of the Wild Wind" - essay by Robert M. Price
220 - Stalker of the Wild Wind - (1993) - shortstory by Stephen Mark Rainey [as by Stephen M. Rainey ]
234 - The Country of the Wind - (1994) - shortstory by Pierre Comtois
234 - About "The Country of the Wind" - essay by Robert M. Price
244 - About "Wrath of the Wind-Walker" - essay by Robert M. Price
245 - Wrath of the Wind-Walker - shortstory by James Ambuehl

Nightmare's Disciple

Call of Cthulhu: Book 8

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

In this original novel of Mythos mystery and horror, a serial killer is terrorizing Schenectady. NY. Detective Chrisopher James Stewart must follow the trail of mutilated bodies and solve the enigmatic clues before the murderer strikes again.

Here is a wealth of terror and exuberant scenes, a detailed Cthulhu Mythos novel of the present day. In it H. P. Lovecraft is more prophet than anyone dares to dream.

The Antarktos Cycle

Call of Cthulhu: Book 9

Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon

Contents:

ix - Introduction: Lovecraft's Cosmic History - (1999) - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - Antarktos - [Fungi from Yuggoth - 15] - (1930) - poem by H. P. Lovecraft
3 - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - [Pym - 1] - (1838) - novel by Edgar Allan Poe
141 - The Sphinx of the Ice Fields (excerpt) - (1975) - shortfiction by Jules Verne
165 - The Greatest Adventure - (1929) - novel by John Taine
305 - At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel by H. P. Lovecraft
393 - The Tomb of the Old Ones - (1999) - novella by Colin Wilson
489 - At the Mountains of Murkiness - (1940) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
498 - The Thing from Another World - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
547 - The Brooding City - (1990) - shortstory by John S. Glasby
562 - The Dreaming City - (1987) - shortstory by Roger Johnson

Call of Cthulhu: Book 10

Song of Cthulhu: Tales of the Spheres Beyond Sound

Contents:

Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon - interior artwork by Dave Carson
vii - The One That Got Away - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - About "The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth" - essay by Robert M. Price
2 - The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and John S. Glasby
52 - About "Understudy" - essay by Robert M. Price
53 - Understudy - (1997) - shortstory by Gary Myers
62 - About "The Doom That Came to Innsmouth" - essay by Robert M. Price
63 - The Doom That Came to Innsmouth - shortstory by Brian McNaughton
88 - About "Return to Y'ha-nthlei" - essay by Robert M. Price
89 - Return to Y'ha-nthlei - (1997) - shortstory by John S. Glasby
106 - About "The Old Ones' Signs" - essay by Robert M. Price
107 - The Old Ones' Signs - shortstory by Pierre Comtois
131 - About "Fleas of the Dragon" - essay by Robert M. Price
132 - Fleas of the Dragon - [Teddy London] - shortstory by C. J. Henderson
173 - About "Mail Order Bride" - essay by Robert M. Price
174 - Mail Order Bride - shortstory by Ann K. Schwader
190 - About "The Idol" - essay by Robert M. Price
191 - The Idol - shortstory by Scott David Aniolowski
205 - About "The Guardian of the Pit" - essay by Robert M. Price
206 - The Guardian of the Pit - (1996) - shortstory by Franklyn Searight
221 - About "Trust Me" - essay by Robert M. Price
222 - Trust Me - shortstory by Stanley C. Sargent
228 - About "Just a Tad Beyond Innsmouth" - essay by Robert M. Price
229 - Just a Tad Beyond Innsmouth - (1997) - shortstory by Stanley C. Sargent
241 - About "The Deep End" - essay by Robert M. Price
242 - The Deep End - shortstory by Gregory Luce
269 - About "It Was the Day of the Deep One" - essay by Robert M. Price
270 - It Was the Day of the Deep One - (1997) - shortstory by Peter Cannon [as by Peter H. Cannon]

The Three Impostors

Call of Cthulhu: Book 12

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), popular Welsh writer of the bizarre and fantastic, created some of the finest horror stories ever written. On the surface, everything appears normal and cheerful in this bustling suburb of neatly laid out homes and well-trimmed hedges. But nothing is really as it seems. For in this world of impostors, conspiracies combine with dark forces to veil a once-ordinary London neighborhood in a cloud of mystery and fear.

A masterpiece of Gothic horror and suspense that inspired such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors is Machen's famous collection of "weird tales" — a string of shocking short stories woven together with a fine narrative thread. Rich with terror, adventure, satire, deception, and dreamlike fantasy, it is a classic of occult literature written by a stylistic master.

Call of Cthulhu: Book 13

Stephen Mark Rainey

Like any eclectic catalog of dark music, this volume of stories explores many levels of emotion, each writer composing his own unique movement to the symphony. Here, you will find a wide range of voices, some spinning tales of pure, deep dread, much as might be found in the most successful works of HPL himself. Others venture into territory that the Old Gent would never have imagined, or wanted to imagine... There's even a touch of whimsy to be found, yet always mingled with the strain of darkness like that faced by Erich Zann in his gatrret in the rue d'Auseil.

Contents:

Song of Cthulhu: Tales of the Spheres Beyond Sound - interior artwork by Dave Carson
xiii - Introduction (Song of Cthulhu: Tales of the Spheres Beyond Sound) - essay by Stephen Mark Rainey
1 - The Music of Erich Zann - (1922) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
8 - The Dark Beauty of Unheard Horrors - (1992) - essay by Thomas Ligotti
14 - In the Rue d'Auseil - shortstory by Fred Chappell
19 - The Plain of Sound - (1964) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell [as by J. Ramsey Campbell ]
29 - The Last Show at Verdi's Supper Club - (1992) - shortstory by Stephen Mark Rainey
37 - Water Music for the Tillers of Soil - (1999) - shortstory by Tom Piccirilli
49 - Shallow Fathoms - shortstory by M. Christian
57 - How Nyarlathotep Rocked Our World - shortstory by Gregory Nicoll
69 - Listen - shortstory by James Robert Smith
75 - Mud - (2000) - shortstory by Brian McNaughton
88 - Paedomorphosis - (1998) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
99 - Intruders - shortstory by Hugh B. Cave
111 - Chant - shortstory by Robert Weinberg
121 - Ghoul's Tale: A Narrative from the Necronomicon Transcribed from the Dee Edition - shortstory by Robert M. Price
126 - The Next Big Thing - shortstory by Rob Suggs
141 - The Flautists - shortstory by Edward P. Berglund
148 - Fall from Grace - shortstory by D. F. Lewis
154 - Drums - novelette by William R. Trotter
181 - The Enchanting of Lila Woods - shortstory by E. A. Lustig
201 - Yog-Sothoth, Superstar - shortstory by Thomas F. Monteleone

Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard

Call of Cthulhu: Book 14

Robert E. Howard

Contents:

xiii - Introduction: Raven, Son of Morn (Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard) - (2001) - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - The Black Stone - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1931) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
17 - Worms of the Earth - [Bran Mak Morn] - (1932) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
44 - The Little People - (1970) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
50 - People of the Dark - (1932) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
66 - The Children of the Night - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1931) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
80 - The Thing on the Roof - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1932) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
90 - The Abbey (fragment) - (1975) - shortfiction by Robert E. Howard
99 - The Fire of Asshurbanipal - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1936) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
119 - The Door to the World - (1977) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard and Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. [as by Robert E. Howard and Joseph S. Pulver ]
139 - The Hoofed Thing - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1970) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard (variant of Usurp the Night)
156 - Dig Me No Grave - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1937) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
168 - The House in the Oaks - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1971) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard and August Derleth
184 - The Black Bear Bites - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1974) - shortstory by Robert E. Howard
196 - The Shadow Kingdom - [Kull of Valusia] - (1929) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
221 - The Gods of Bal-Sagoth - [Turlogh O'Brien] - (1931) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
252 - Skull-Face - [Steve Harrison] - (1929) - novella by Robert E. Howard
323 - Black Eons - [James Allison] - (1985) - novelette by Robert E. Howard and Robert M. Price
340 - The Challenge from Beyond (Part 1 of 5) - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1935) - shortfiction by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Challenge from Beyond) [as by C. L. Moore ]
343 - The Challenge from Beyond (Part 2 of 5) - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1935) - shortfiction by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Challenge from Beyond) [as by A. Merritt ]
344 - The Challenge from Beyond (Part 3 of 5) - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1935) - shortfiction by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Challenge from Beyond) [as by H. P. Lovecraft ]
350 - The Challenge from Beyond (Part 4 of 5) - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1935) - shortfiction by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Challenge from Beyond) [as by Robert E. Howard ]
352 - The Challenge from Beyond (Part 5 of 5) - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1935) - shortfiction by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Challenge from Beyond) [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]

The Book of Eibon

Call of Cthulhu: Book 15

The Necronomicon: The Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab

Contents:

xi - Ultima Thule and Mhu Thulan (map) - interior artwork by Laurence J. Cornford
xvii - The Ebony Book: Introduction to The Book of Eibon - essay by Robert M. Price
3 - About "History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon" - essay by Robert M. Price
4 - History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon - shortfiction by Lin Carter (variant of History & Chronology of the Book of Eibon 1984)
9 - About "The Life of Eibon" - essay by Robert M. Price
10 - The Life of Eibon According to Cyron of Varaad - shortstory by Lin Carter
20 - About "Eibon Saith" - essay by Robert M. Price
21 - Eibon Saith; or, The Apophthegmata of Eibon - (1997) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
27 - About "The Double Tower" - essay by Robert M. Price
28 - The Double Tower: The History of Zloigm the Necromancer - (1973) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter (variant of The Double Tower) [as by Lin Carter ]
34 - About "The Devouring of S'lithik Hhai" - essay by Robert M. Price
35 - The Devouring of S'lithik Hhai: The History of X'hyl the Apothecary - (1998) - shortstory by John R. Fultz (variant of The Devouring of S'lithik Hhai)
43 - About "The Scroll of Morloc" - essay by Robert M. Price
45 - The Scroll of Morloc: The History of the Shaman Yhemog - (1975) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter (variant of The Scroll of Morloc) [as by Lin Carter ]
53 - About "The Descent into the Abyss" - essay by Robert M. Price
55 - The Descent into the Abyss: The History of the Sorcerer Haon-Dor - (1981) - novelette by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter (variant of The Descent Into the Abyss 1980) [as by Lin Carter ]
65 - About "The Secret in the Parchment" - essay by Robert M. Price
66 - The Secret in the Parchment: The History of the Thaumaturge Ptomeron - (1988) - shortstory by Lin Carter (variant of The Secret in the Parchment)
72 - About "The Face from Below" - essay by Robert M. Price
74 - The Face from Below: The History of Pnom the Exoercist - shortstory by Laurence J. Cornford
81 - About "The Sphinx of Abormis" - essay by Robert M. Price
82 - The Sphinx of Abormis: The History of the Wizard Hormagor - shortstory by Laurence J. Cornford
88 - About "The Alkahest" - essay by Robert M. Price
89 - The Alkahest: The History of Enoycla the Alchemist - shortstory by Laurence J. Cornford
96 - About "The Coming of the White Worm" - essay by Robert M. Price
97 - The Coming of the White Worm: The History of Evagh the Warlock (Chapter IX of The Book of Eibon) - [Hyperborea] - (1941) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The Coming of the White Worm)
115 - About "The Light from the Pole" - essay by Robert M. Price
117 - The Light from the Pole: The History of Pharazyn the Enchanter - (1981) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter (variant of The Light From the Pole 1980)
130 - About "The Stairs in the Crypt" - essay by Robert M. Price
131 - The Stairs in the Crypt: The History of the Necromancer Avalzaunt - (1976) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter (variant of The Stairs in the Crypt)
141 - About "The Feaster from the Stars" - essay by Robert M. Price
143 - The Feaster from the Stars: The History of Yzduggor the Eremite - (1984) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter (variant of The Feaster from the Stars) [as by Lin Carter ]
150 - About "The Green Decay" - essay by Robert M. Price
151 - The Green Decay: The History of Nabulus the Wonder-Worker - (1997) - shortstory by Robert M. Price (variant of The Green Decay)
159 - About "The Utmost Abomination" - essay by Robert M. Price
161 - The Utmost Abomination - (1973) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter
171 - About "Uttressor" - essay by Robert M. Price
172 - Uttressor - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith and Laurence J. Cornford and Richard L. Tierney
184 - About "Annotations for the Book of Night" - essay by Robert M. Price
185 - Annotations for the Book of Night - (1997) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
191 - About "The Burrower Beneath" - essay by Robert M. Price
193 - The Burrower Beneath - (1997) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
199 - About "In the Vale of Pnath" - essay by Robert M. Price
200 - In the Vale of Pnath - (1975) - shortstory by Lin Carter
205 - About "Shaggai" - essay by Robert M. Price
206 - Shaggai - (1971) - shortstory by Lin Carter
211 - About "The Haunting of Uthnor" - essay by Robert M. Price
212 - The Haunting of Uthnor - shortstory by Laurence J. Cornford
218 - About "The Offspring of the Tomb" - essay by Robert M. Price
219 - The Offspring of the Tomb - shortstory by Laurence J. Cornford
227 - About "The Demon of the Ring" - essay by Robert M. Price
229 - The Demon of the Ring - shortstory by Laurence J. Cornford
235 - About "The Door to Saturn" - essay by Robert M. Price
236 - The Door to Saturn - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
257 - About "Payrus of the Dark Wisdom" by Lin Carter - essay by Robert M. Price
258 - The Unbegotten Source - [Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom - 1] - shortstory by Lin Carter
261 - The Polar Ones - [Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom - 2] - shortstory by Lin Carter
263 - The Elder Beings - [Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom - 3] - shortstory by Lin Carter
264 - The Great Race of Yith - [Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom - 4] - shortstory by Lin Carter
265 - The City of the Archives - [Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom - 5] - shortstory by Lin Carter
266 - The Coming of Cthulhu - [Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom - 6] - shortstory by Lin Carter
273 - About "Psalms of the Silent" - essay by Robert M. Price
274 - Petition: To Tsathoggua - poem by Richard L. Tierney
276 - To Atlach-Nacha - poem by Richard L. Tierney
277 - The Prayer of Yzduggor the Apostate - poem by Richard L. Tierney
278 - Prayer to Lord Yok-Zothoth - poem by Richard L. Tierney
279 - The Appeasement of Ghizguth - poem by Richard L. Tierney
280 - The Summoning of Pharol - poem by Richard L. Tierney
281 - The Unresponding Gods (from the Fragementary "Genealogies of Pnom" Preserved by the Wizard Eibon) - poem by Richard L. Tierney
283 - The House of Haon-Dor - poem by Richard L. Tierney
284 - The Dark Sorcerer - poem by Richard L. Tierney
285 - The Contemplative God - poem by Richard L. Tierney
286 - The Door to Cykranosh; or, Eibon's Lament - poem by Richard L. Tierney
287 - Hyperborea; or, Eibon's Prophecy - poem by Richard L. Tierney
288 - The Minions of Zstylzhemgni - poem by Richard L. Tierney
289 - Ycnágnnissz - poem by Richard L. Tierney
290 - Ubbo-Sathla - poem by Michael Fantina
290 - Ubbo-Sathla - interior artwork by Jason C. Eckhardt
291 - Azathoth - poem by Michael Fantina
292 - Tsathoggua

Call of Cthulhu: Book 16

The Tsathoggua Cycle: Terror Tales of the Toad God

Contents:

The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab - (1996) - interior artwork by Earl Geier
The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab: Second Edition, Expanded and Corrected - (2002) - interior artwork by Andy Hopp
ix - The Figure in the Flying Carpet - (1996) - essay by Robert M. Price
4 - The Terrible Parchment - (1937) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
12 - Dr. Xander's Cottage - (1941) - shortstory by Martin D. Brown
16 - The Mantle of Graag - (1941) - shortstory by Robert A. W. Lowndes and Henry Dockweiller and Frederik Pohl [as by Robert A. W. Lowndes and Henry Dockweiller and Frederick Pohl ]
25 - Settler's Wall - (1968) - novelette by Robert A. W. Lowndes (variant of The Long Wall 1942)
54 - The Howler in the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1984) - novelette by Richard L. Tierney
90 - Demons of Cthulhu - (1959) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
106 - The Castle in the Window - (1968) - shortstory by Steffan B. Aletti
119 - Concerning the Forthcoming Inexpensive Paperback Translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred - (1992) - novelette by John Brunner
155 - The Adder - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1989) - shortstory by Fred Chappell
185 - Preface to the Al-Azif - (1996) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp (variant of Preface (Al Azif) 1973)
192 - John Dee's Necronomicon: A Fragment - (1996) - shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
197 - Introitus (The Necronomicon: The Dee Translation) - [The Necronomicon: The Dee Translation] - (1989) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
197 - The Doom of Yakthoob - [The Book of Episodes - 1] - (1971) - shortstory by Lin Carter
200 - The Thing Under Memphis - [The Book of Episodes - 2] - (1984) - shortstory by Lin Carter
204 - In the City of Pillars - [The Book of Episodes - 3] - (1974) - shortstory by Lin Carter (variant of The City of Pillars)
209 - The Vault Beneath the Mosque - [The Book of Episodes - 5] - (1985) - shortstory by Lin Carter
213 - Mnomquah - [The Book of Episodes - 6] - (1985) - shortstory by Lin Carter
221 - The Madness Out of Time - [The Book of Episodes - 7] - (1986) - shortstory by Lin Carter
229 - Dreams of the Black Lotus - [The Book of Episodes - 8] - (1987) - shortstory by Lin Carter
236 - The Shadow from the Stars - [The Book of Episodes - 9] - (1988) - shortstory by Lin Carter
242 - The Transition of Abdul Alhazred - [The Book of Episodes - 10] - shortstory by Lin Carter
248 - Of the Powers of the Sorcerer - [The Book of Preparations - 1] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
249 - Of that Which Is Needful to Sorcery - [The Book of Preparations - 2] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
250 - Of the Old Ones and the Favors They Bestow - [The Book of Preparations - 3] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
252 - Of the Times and Seasons to Be Observed - [The Book of Preparations - 4] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
254 - Of the Powers of the Moon - [The Book of Preparations - 5] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
255 - Concerning Them from Outside - [The Book of Preparations - 6] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
257 - The Punishment of the Old Ones - [The Book of Preparations - 7] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
259 - Of that Which Is Foretold of Their Return - [The Book of Preparations - 8] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
260 - The Liers-in-Wait - [The Book of Preparations - 9] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
261 - Of the Worlds Beyond this World, and the Modes of Travel - [The Book of the Gates - 1] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
263 - Of Foul Necromancy - [The Book of the Gates - 2] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
265 - The Peril that Lurketh Beyond Time - [The Book of the Gates - 3] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
266 - Those that Aid the Unnamable Devourers - [The Book of the Gates - 4] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
267 - Of Tindalos, and the Hounds Thereof - [The Book of the Gates - 5] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
269 - If Thou Wouldst Raise the Dead - [The Book of the Gates - 6] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
270 - To Send Back Down that Which Thou Hast Called Up - [The Book of the Gates - 7] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
271 - Of the Signs of Hnaa - [The Book of the Gates - 8] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
273 - Of the Dream-Gates - [The Book of the Gates - 9] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
274 - Of Koth, and the Sign of Koth - [The Book of the Gates - 10] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
275 - The Ritual of the Silver Key - [The Book of the Gates - 11] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
277 - 'Umr At-Tawil - [The Book of the Gates - 12] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
279 - Of Opening the Door to Yog-Sothoth - [The Book of the Gates - 13] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
281 - Of Them from Outside and Their Spawn - [The Book of the Gates - 15] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
281 - The Ninth Verse that Summoneth Yog-Sothoth - [The Book of the Gates - 14] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
283 - Somewhat of the Gates that Open to Beyond - [The Book of the Gates - 16] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
285 - Of Leng and the Mysteries Thereof - [The Book of the Gates - 17] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
286 - Of the Coming-Hence of the Old Ones - [The Book of the Gates - 18] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
289 - The Openers of the Way - [The Book of the Gates - 19] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
290 - Of Calling Up that Which Thou Canst Not Put Down - [The Book of Dismissals - 1] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
292 - Of the Several Modes to Enforce the Dismissal - [The Book of Dismissals - 2] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
294 - Of Ib, and the Vengeance Thereof - [The Book of Dismissals - 3] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
297 - Of the Five-Pointed Star Carven of Grey Stone - [The Book of Dismissals - 4] - (1990) - shortfiction by Lin Carter
301 - The Sussex Manuscript - (1989) - novelette by Fred L. Pelton
351 - Why Abdul Al Hazred Went Mad - (1950) - shortstory by D. R. Smith
361 - History of the Necronomicon (An Outline) - (1938) - shortfiction by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of History of the Necronomicon)
367 - Necronomicon - shortstory by Robert C. Culp
383 - The Saga of Abdul Alhazred - novelette by Stephen T. Larkin
416 - The Life of the Master - (1996) - interior artwork by David T. Pudelwitts [as by David Pudelwitts ]
416 - The Life of the Master (A Biography of Abdul Alhazred by His Student, El-Rashi) - (1984) - shortstory by David T. St. Albans
434 - A Critical Commentary on the Necronomicon - (1988) - novella by Robert M. Price

Call of Cthulhu: Book 19

Arkham Tales: Legends of the Haunted City

Contents:

xi - Bat/rachian: Introduction to the Tsathoggua Cycle - essay by Robert M. Price
2 - About "From the Parchments of Pnom" - essay by Robert M. Price
3 - From the Parchments of Pnom - (1997) - essay by Clark Ashton Smith
8 - About "The Seven Geases" - essay by Robert M. Price
9 - The Seven Geases - [Hyperborea] - (1934) - novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
33 - About "The Testament of Athammaus" - essay by Robert M. Price
34 - The Testament of Athammaus - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
56 - About "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" - essay by Robert M. Price
57 - The Tale of Satampra Zeiros - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1931) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
71 - About "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles" - essay by Robert M. Price
72 - The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1958) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The Theft of Thirty-nine Girdles)
84 - About "Shadow of the Sleeping God" - essay by Robert M. Price
85 - The Shadow of the Sleeping God - (1998) - shortstory by James Ambuehl
99 - About "The Curse of the Toad" - essay by Robert M. Price
100 - The Curse of the Toad - (1978) - shortstory by Terry Dale and Loay Hall
100 - About "Dark Swamp" - essay by Robert M. Price
109 - Dark Swamp - (1983) - shortstory by James Arthur Anderson [as by James Anderson ]
118 - About "The Old One" - essay by Robert M. Price
119 - The Old One - (1989) - novelette by John S. Glasby
148 - About "The Oracle of Sàdoqua" - essay by Robert M. Price
149 - The Oracle of Sàdoqua - (1989) - shortstory by Ron Hilger
165 - About "Horror Show" - essay by Robert M. Price
166 - Horror Show - (1997) - shortstory by Gary Myers
176 - About "The Tale of Toad Loop" - essay by Robert M. Price
177 - The Tale of Toad Loop - (1998) - shortstory by Stanley C. Sargent
193 - About "The Crawling Kingdom" - essay by Robert M. Price
194 - The Crawling Kingdom - (1996) - shortstory by Rod Heather
206 - About "The Resurrection of Kzadool-Ra" - essay by Robert M. Price
207 - The Resurrection of Kzadool-Ra - (1987) - shortstory by Henry J. Vester, III

Call of Cthulhu: Book 20

William Jones

Contents:

vii - Introduction to Arkham Tales - essay by William Jones
1 - Mysterious Dan's Legacy - shortstory by Matthew Baugh
19 - Vaughn's Diary - shortstory by Robert Vaughn
36 - The Orb - shortstory by Tony Campbell
54 - The Nether Collection - shortstory by Cody Goodfellow
74 - Worms - shortstory by Pat Harrigan
91 - They Thrive in Darkness - shortstory by Ron Shiflet
108 - What Sorrows May Come - shortstory by Lee Clark Zumpe
125 - Arkham Pets - shortstory by James Ambuehl
130 - Small Ghost - shortstory by Michael Minnis
148 - Burnt Tea - shortstory by Michael Dziesinski
165 - Arkham Rain - shortstory by John Goodrich
183 - Regrowth - shortstory by David Conyers
199 - The Idea of Fear - shortstory by C. J. Henderson
212 - Disconnected - shortstory by Brian M. Sammons
237 - The Lady in the Grove - shortstory by Scott Lette
253 - On Leave to Arkham - shortstory by Bill Bilstad
272 - Geometry of the Soul - shortstory by Jason Andrew

The Spiraling Worm: Man vs. the Cthulhu Mythos

Call of Cthulhu: Book 21

John Sunseri
David Conyers

Contents:

5 - Introduction (The Spiraling Worm) - essay by C. J. Henderson
8 - Made of Meat - [Harrison Peel - 1] - (2005) - shortstory by David Conyers
27 - To What Green Altar - [Harrison Peel - 2] - novelette by John Sunseri
67 - Impossible Object - [Harrison Peel - 3] - (2005) - shortstory by David Conyers
87 - False Containment - [Harrison Peel - 4] - (2005) - novelette by David Conyers
120 - Resurgence - [Harrison Peel - 5] - novelette by John Sunseri
163 - Weapon Grade - [Harrison Peel - 6] - novella by David Conyers
206 - The Spiraling Worm - [Harrison Peel - 7] - novella by David Conyers and John Sunseri
309 - Afterword (The Spiraling Worm) - essay by David Conyers and John Sunseri
315 - About the Authors (The Spiraling Worm) - essay by uncredited

Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World

Call of Cthulhu: Book 22

William Jones

Contents:

9 - The Long Road Home - shortstory by Paul Melniczek
23 - In Waters Black the Lost Ones Sleep - novelette by Angeline Hawkes
49 - Where Men Had Seldom Trod - novelette by Lee Clark Zumpe
77 - Something to Hold the Door Closed - shortstory by Lon Prater
89 - Terror from Middle Island - shortstory by Durant Haire and Stephen Mark Rainey
105 - Children of the Mountain - shortstory by Stewart Sternberg
117 - They Who Dwell Below - shortstory by William Jones
133 - Wagon Train for the Star - shortstory by Scott Lette
149 - Incident at Dagon Wells - shortstory by Ron Shiflet
165 - Ahiga and the Machine - shortstory by Robert J. Santa
177 - The Dead Man's Hand - shortstory by Jason Andrew
189 - Jedediah Smith and the Undying Chinaman - shortstory by Charles P. Zaglanis
205 - Snake Oil - shortfiction by Matthew Baugh
221 - Cemetery, Nevada - novelette by Tim Curran
251 - The Rider of the Dark - (2004) - shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer

The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson: Horriplicating Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Call of Cthulhu: Book 23

William Jones

Contents:

11 - Author's Note (The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson) - essay
15 - Foreword (The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson) - shortfiction
19 - Feasters of the Dark - (2003) - shortstory
35 - The Transgression of Effram Harris - (2004) - shortstory
45 - Shadow of the Past - novelette
75 - The Whispering Dead - novelette
103 - The Haunted Horror - shortstory
115 - Harami - (2004) - shortstory
129 - The Missing Curiosity - novelette
159 - The Mysterious Millionaire - novelette
191 - An Ancient Summoning - shortstory
217 - Through the Eye of a Needle - (2006) - shortstory
237 - Afterword (The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson) - shortfiction

The Klarkash-Ton Cycle: Clark Ashton Smith's Cthulhu Mythos Fiction

Call of Cthulhu: Book 24

Clark Ashton Smith

Contents:

v - Introduction to The Klarkash-Ton Cycle - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - The Ghoul - (1934) - shortstory
8 - A Rendering from the Arabic - shortstory
25 - The Hunters from Beyond - (1932) - shortstory
44 - The Vaults of Abomi - shortstory
67 - The Nameless Offspring - (1932) - novelette
88 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - shortstory
98 - The Werewolf of Averoigne - [Averoigne] - (1984) - shortstory
115 - The Eidolon of the Blind - shortfiction
133 - Vulthoom - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1935) - novelette
162 - The Treader of the Dust - (1935) - shortstory
172 - The Infernal Star - (1989) - novelette
203 - Story Intros (The Klarkash-Ton Cycle) - essay by Robert M. Price

Mysteries of the Worm: Early Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Call of Cthulhu: Book 25

Robert Bloch

Contents:

Mysteries of the Worm - interior artwork by Steven Gilberts
2 - The Secret in the Tomb - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
3 - The Secret in the Tomb - (1935) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
9 - The Suicide in the Study - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
10 - The Suicide in the Study - (1935) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
15 - The Shambler from the Stars - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
16 - The Shambler from the Stars - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1935) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
24 - The Faceless God - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
25 - The Faceless God - (1936) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
39 - The Grinning Ghoul - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
40 - The Grinning Ghoul - (1936) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
49 - The Opener of the Way - essay by Robert M. Price
50 - The Opener of the Way - (1936) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
62 - The Dark Demon - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
63 - The Dark Demon - (1936) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
72 - The Brood of Bubastis - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
73 - The Brood of Bubastis - (1937) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
85 - The Mannikin - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
86 - The Mannikin - (1937) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
100 - The Creeper in the Crypt - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
101 - The Creeper in the Crypt - (1937) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
110 - The Secret of Sebek - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
111 - The Secret of Sebek - (1937) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
125 - Fane of the Black Pharaoh - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
126 - Fane of the Black Pharaoh - (1937) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
141 - The Eyes of the Mummy - essay by Robert M. Price
142 - The Eyes of the Mummy - (1938) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
154 - The Sorcerer's Jewel - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
155 - The Sorcerer's Jewel - (1939) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
169 - Black Bargain - essay by Robert M. Price
170 - Black Bargain - (1942) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
185 - The Unspeakable Betrothal - essay by Robert M. Price
186 - The Unspeakable Betrothal - (1949) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
198 - The Shadow from the Steeple - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
199 - The Shadow from the Steeple - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1950) - novelette by Robert Bloch
217 - Notebook Found in a Deserted House - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
218 - Notebook Found in a Deserted House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1951) - novelette by Robert Bloch
236 - Terror in Cut-Throat Cove - (1993) - essay by Robert M. Price
237 - Terror in Cut-Throat Cove - (1958) - novelette by Robert Bloch
269 - Philtre Tip - essay by Robert M. Price
270 - Philtre Tip - (1961) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
276 - Afterword (Mysteries of the Worm) - (1981) - essay by Robert Bloch
280 - Demon-Dreaded Lore: Robert Bloch's Contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos - (1993) - essay by Lin Carter (variant of Demon-Dreaded Lore 1981)

The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race

Call of Cthulhu: Book 26

Eldritch Evolutions: 26 Weird Science Fiction, Dark Fantasy and Horror Stories

The Yith Cycle: Lovecratian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel

Contents:

7 - Emanations from Yith - essay by Robert M. Price
13 - John Taine, "The Purple Sapphire" - essay by Robert M. Price
14 - The Purple Sapphire - (1924) - novel by John Taine
197 - Duane W. Rimel, "Dreams of Yith" - essay by Robert M. Price
198 - The Dreams of Yid - poem by Duane W. Rimel
199 - Dreams of Yith - (1934) - poem by Duane W. Rimel and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Duane W. Rimel ]
203 - Duane W. Rimel, "The Jewels of Charlotte" - essay by Robert M. Price
204 - The Jewels of Charlotte - (1935) - shortstory by Duane W. Rimel
211 - Richard F. Searight, "The Sealed Casket" - essay by Robert M. Price
212 - The Sealed Casket - (1935) - shortstory by Richard F. Searight
219 - Richard F. Searight, "The Warder of Knowledge" - essay by Robert M. Price
220 - The Warder of Knowledge - (1992) - shortstory by Richard F. Searight
233 - H. P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Out of Time" - essay by Robert M. Price
235 - The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella by H. P. Lovecraft
294 - H. P. Lovecraft, "The Challenge from Beyond - essay by Robert M. Price
295 - The Challenge from Beyond - [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] - (1935) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long [as by H. P. Lovecraft ]
302 - August W. Derleth, "The Shadow Out of Space" - essay by Robert M. Price
303 - The Shadow Out of Space - (1957) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth ]
321 - August W. Derleth, "The Dark Brotherhood" - essay by Robert M. Price
322 - The Dark Brotherhood - (1966) - shortfiction by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth ]
345 - Alan D. Gullette, Walter C. de Bill, Jr., and Ted C. Pons "The Horror from Yith' - essay by Robert M. Price
346 - The Horror from Yith, Part I: The Shadow from Yith - (1973) - shortfiction by Alan Gullette [as by Alan D. Gullette ]
361 - The Horror from Yith, Part II: The Horror from Yith - (1974) - shortfiction by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
377 - The Horror from Yith, Part III: Beneath the Dunes - (1975) - shortfiction by Ted C. Pons
387 - Walter C. DeBill Jr., "The Changeling" - essay by Robert M. Price
388 - The Changeling - (2002) - shortfiction by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
424 - P. Schyuler Miller, "The Sands of Time - essay by Robert M. Price
425 - The Sands of Time - [Sands of Time - 1] - (1937) - novella by P. Schuyler Miller
453 - Richard L. Tierney, "Countdown for Kalara" - essay by Robert M. Price
454 - Countdown for Kalara - (1980) - novelette by Richard L. Tierney
503 - Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, "The Winds of Yith" - essay by Robert M. Price
504 - The Winds of Yith - (1987) - shortfiction by W. H. Pugmire

Call of Cthulhu: Book 27

Undead & Unbound: Unexpected Tales from Beyond the Grave

Contents:

9 - Underlying Darkness - essay
11 - Introduction (Eldritch Evolutions) - essay by Robert Weinberg
14 - Snip My Suckers - (1995) - shortstory
21 - Psychomidew Love - shortstory (variant of Psychomildew Love 1995)
29 - Soleman - shortstory (variant of Sole Man 1996)
48 - Where I Go, Mi-Go - (1997) - shortstory
69 - Mandelbrot Moldrot - (1996) - novelette
89 - Cafebabe - (1993) - shortstory
104 - Digital Pistil - (1994) - shortstory
114 - Let Me Make You Suffer - (1995) - shortstory
127 - Little Whorehouse of Horrors - (1998) - shortstory
138 - Watch Me If You Can - (1993) - shortstory
152 - Algorithms & Nasal Structures - (1998) - shortstory
166 - Debutante Ball - shortstory
173 - Smokestack Snout Neurology - shortstory
184 - The Battle of BatBrew Bulge - shortstory
195 - Underground Pipeline - shortstory
209 - Instant Gratification - (1994) - shortstory
221 - Lust of the Giant Sloth - shortstory
235 - AnOde to Thee: (or: Surfing Those Tubular Waves) - (1994) - shortstory (variant of AnOde to Thee, Or: Surfing Those Tubular Waves 1993)
239 - Geisha Black - shortstory
250 - Skinhead Bonehead - shortstory
262 - Wee Sweet Girlies - shortstory
275 - Julia Brainchild - (2010) - shortstory
290 - There's No Place Like Void - (2011) - shortstory
306 - Showdown at Red Hook - shortstory
320 - Scourge of the Old Ones - (2011) - shortstory
332 - The Lagoon of Insane Plants - (2011) - shortstory

Call of Cthulhu: Book 28

Brian M. Sammons

Contents:

6 - Introduction (Undead & Unbound) - essay by Brian M. Sammons and David Conyers
9 - Blind Item - shortstory by Cody Goodfellow
25 - Dead Baby Keychain Blues - shortstory by Gary McMahon
37 - A Personal Apocalypse - shortstory by Mercedes M. Yardley
51 - The Unexpected - shortstory by Mark Allan Gunnells
63 - Incarnate - shortstory by David Dunwoody
83 - Marionettes - shortstory by Robert Neilson
103 - Undead Night of the Undeadest Undead - shortstory by C. J. Henderson
121 - I Am Legion - shortstory by Robert M. Price
127 - When Dark Things Sleep - shortstory by Damien Walters Grintalis
137 - Descanse En Paz - shortstory by William Meikle
149 - Thunder in Old Kilpatrick - shortstory by Gustavo Bondoni
163 - Phallus Incarnate - shortstory by Glynn Barrass [as by Glynn Owen Barrass ]
177 - Wreckers - shortstory by Tom Lynch
187 - Scavenger - shortstory by Oscar Rios
199 - In the House of Millions of Years - shortstory by John Goodrich
209 - Romero 2.0 - shortstory by Brian M. Sammons and David Conyers
229 - Mother Blood - shortstory by Scott David Aniolowski
247 - The Unforgiving Court - shortstory by David Schembri
271 - North of the Arctic Circle - shortstory by Peter Rawlik
276 - Contributor Biographies (Undead & Unbound) - essay by uncredited

Eldritch Chrome: Unquiet Tales of a Mythos-Haunted Future

Call of Cthulhu: Book 29

Brian M. Sammons
Glynn Owen Barrass

Contents:

6 - Introduction (Eldritch Chrome) - essay by Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Barrass [as by Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass]
9 - Obsolete, Absolute - shortstory by Robert M. Price
16 - The Place that Cannot Be - shortstory by D. L. Snell
30 - The Battle of Arkham - shortstory by Peter Rawlik
40 - The Wurms In the Grid - shortstory by Nickolas Cook
56 - SymbiOS - shortstory by William Meikle
64 - Playgrounds of Angolaland - shortstory by David Conyers
83 - Sonar City - shortstory by Sam Stone
99 - The Blowfly Manifesto - shortstory by Tim Curran
117 - Flesh & Scales - shortstory by Ran Cartwright
130 - Inlibration - shortstory by Michael Tice
140 - Hope Abandoned - shortstory by Tom Lynch
152 - Immune - shortstory by Terrie Leigh Relf
167 - Real Gone - shortstory by David Dunwoody
182 - CL3ANS3 - shortstory by Carrie Cuinn
192 - Dreams of Death - shortstory by Lois H. Gresh [as by Lois Gresh]
203 - The Gauntlet - shortstory by Glynn Barrass and Brian M. Sammons [as by Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons]
224 - Indifference - shortstory by C. J. Henderson
246 - Open Minded - shortstory by Jeffrey Thomas
263 - Contributor Biographies - essay by uncredited

Steampunk Cthulhu: Mythos Terror in the Age of Steam

Call of Cthulhu: Book 31

Brian M. Sammons

Contents:

6 - Introduction (Steampunk Cthulhu) - essay by Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Barrass [as by Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass ]
10 - Those Above - shortstory by Jeffrey Thomas
30 - The Blackwold Horror - shortstory by Adam Bolivar
40 - No Hand to Turn the Key - shortstory by Carrie Cuinn
56 - The Reverend Mr. Goodworks & the Yeggs of Yig - shortstory by Edward M. Erdelac
78 - Carnacki--The Island of Doctor Munroe - [Carnacki (William Meikle)] - shortstory by William Meikle
92 - Pain Wears No Mask - shortstory by John Goodrich
106 - Before the Least of These Stars - shortstory by Lee Clark Zumpe
130 - The Promised Messiah - shortstory by D. J. Tyrer
142 - Unfathomable - shortstory by Christine Morgan
169 - The Flower - shortstory by Christopher M. Geeson
181 - Tentacular Spectacular - shortstory by Thana Niveau
198 - Fall of an Empire - shortstory by Glynn Barrass and Brian M. Sammons [as by Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons ]
220 - The Baying of the Hounds - shortstory by Leigh Kimmel
232 - Mr. Brass & the City of Devils - shortstory by Josh Reynolds
247 - The Source - shortstory by D. L. Snell
271 - Happy Birthday, Dear Cthulhu - shortstory by Robert Neilson
291 - The Strange Company - shortstory by Peter Rawlik [as by Pete Rawlik]

Atomic-Age Cthulhu: Tales of Mythos Horror in the 1950s

Call of Cthulhu: Book 32

Glynn Owen Barrass
Brian M. Sammons

THE DECADE OF THE 1950s: while many places in the world are still recovering from the horrors of the Second World War, it is a good time for America. The economy and industry are roaring, the middle class is exploding, and everyone can own their own home. The nation is filled with pride after a hard-won victory. The future never seemed brighter, and yet...

...never before have we faced a global threat as dire as the atomic bomb. Humanity has always waged war, but now we can eradicate all life on the planet. Educational films promise survival of a nuclear blast. In movies, the classic monsters of the 30s and 40s are replaced by horrors spawned of the atom.

Enemies are everywhere, and there are dangers in our midst: devilish rock n roll, morally corrupt books, and sinister comic books corrupt the minds of our youth.

The dreaded Red Menace of Communism is poised to overthrow our government and strip-away all of our personal freedoms. Their comrades are everywhere and could be anyone, including your neighbor, your friend, or a member of your family. There are godless Communists spreading across the globe, and they must be stopped by any means necessary!

So here you have the world of Atomic-Age Cthulhu, bringing Lovecraftian horror to the postwar Golden Age.

Contents:

Bad Reception - short story by Jeffrey Thomas
Unamerican - short fiction by Cody Goodfellow
Fallout - [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] - short story by Sam Stone (variant of Fall Out)
Eldritch Lunch - short fiction by Adam Bolivar
Little Curly - short fiction by Neil Baker
The Day the Music Died - short fiction by Charles Christian
The Terror That Came to Dounreay - short fiction by William Meikle
The Romeo Transference - short fiction by Josh Reynolds
It Came to Modesto - short fiction by Edward M. Erdelac [as by Ed Erdelac]
Within the Image of the Divine - short fiction by Bear Weiter
Yellow Is the Color of the Future - short fiction by Jason Andrew
Fears Realized - short fiction by Tom Lynch
Professor Patriot and the Doom That Came to Niceville - short fiction by Christine Morgan
Rose-Colored Glasses - short fiction by Michael Szymanski
The Preserved Ones - short fiction by Christopher M. Geeson
Putnam's Monster - short fiction by Scott T. Goudsward
Operation Switch - [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] - short fiction by Peter Rawlik [as by Pete Rawlik]
Names on the Black List - short fiction by Robert M. Price
The End of the Golden Age - short fiction by Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons

Cthulhu's Heirs: New Cthulhu Mythos Fiction

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 3

Thomas M. K. Stratman

Stratman describes the tales as "more than 20 writers' visions into the landscape of Lovecraft Country."

Contents:

"Watch the Whiskers Sprout" by D. F. Lewis
"The Death Watch" by Hugh B. Cave
"The Return of the White Ship: The Quest for Cathuria" by Arthur William & Lloyd Breach
"Kadath/the Vision and the Journey" by t. Winter-Damon
"The Franklyn Paragraphs" by Ramsey Campbell
"Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock" by Robert M. Price
"1968 RPI" by Joe Murphy
"Those of the Air" by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason van Hollander
"Mr. Skin" by Victor Milán
"Just Say No" by Gregory Nicoll
"The Scourge" by Charles M. Saplak
"Pickman's Legacy" by Gordon Linzner
"Of Dark Things & Midnight Places" by David Niall Wilson
"The Likeness" by Dan Perez
"An Early Frost" by Scott David Aniolowski
"Scene: A Room" by Craig Anthony
"The Seven Cities of Gold" by Crispin Burnham
"Shadows of Her Dreams" by Cary G. Osborne
"The Herald" by Daniel M. Burrello
"Typo" by Michael D. Winkle
"Star Bright, Star Byte" by Marella Sands

The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 4

The Azathoth Cycle: Tales of the Blind Idiot God

Contents:

The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat With a Thousand Young - interior artwork by Dreyfus
xi - Introduction (Shub-Niggurath Cycle) - essay by Robert M. Price
3 - The Horn of Vapula - (1932) - shortstory by Lewis Spence
13 - The Demoniac Goat - (1947) - novelette by M. P. Dare
31 - The Ghostly Goat of Glaramara - (1979) - shortstory by J. S. Leatherbarrow
41 - The Moon-Lens - (1964) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
55 - The Ring of the Hyades - (1989) - novelette by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
81 - A Thousand Young - (1989) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
95 - The Seed of the Star-God - [Simon of Gitta] - (1984) - novelette by Richard L. Tierney
131 - Harold's Blues - (1976) - shortstory by Glen Singer
143 - Dreams in the House of Weir - (1980) - shortstory by Lin Carter
159 - Visions from Yaddith - (1988) - poem by Lin Carter
163 - Prey of the Goat - shortstory by Margaret L. Carter [as by M. L. Carter ]
177 - Sabbath of the Black Goat - shortstory by Stephen Mark Rainey [as by Stephen M. Rainey ]
187 - The Curate of Temphill - (1993) - shortstory by Robert M. Price and Peter Cannon [as by Robert M. Price and Peter H. Cannon]
201 - Grossie - shortstory by David Kaufman
213 - To Clear the Earth - shortstory by Will Murray

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 6

The Book of Iod: The Eater of Souls & Other Tales

Contents:

The Azathoth Cycle - interior artwork by Dreyfus
v - The Mad God: An Introduction to The Azathoth Cycle - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - Azathoth - poem by Edward Pickman Derby
9 - Azathoth in Arkham - shortstory by Peter Cannon
20 - The Revenge of Azathoth - shortstory by Peter Cannon
31 - The Pit of the Shoggoths - novelette by Stephen Mark Rainey [as by Stephen M. Rainey ]
50 - Hydra - [Azathoth] - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
64 - The Madness Out of Time - [The Book of Episodes - 7] - (1986) - shortstory by Lin Carter
71 - The Insects from Shaggai - (1964) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
93 - The Sect of the Idiot - [Azathoth] - (1988) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
103 - The Throne of Achamoth - [Simon of Gitta] - (1985) - novelette by Richard L. Tierney and Robert M. Price
129 - The Last Night of Earth - shortstory by Gary Myers
135 - The Daemon-Sultan - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
144 - Idiot Savant - novelette by C. J. Henderson
168 - The Space of Madness - [Azathoth] - (1993) - shortstory by Stephen Studach
178 - The Nameless Tower - novelette by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
197 - The Plague Jar - novelette by Allen Mackey
223 - The Old Ones' Promise of Eternal Life - essay by Robert M. Price [as by Robert M. Price, Ph.D.]

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 7

Henry Kuttner

Contents:

The Book of Iod - interior artwork by Earl Geier
v - The Khut-N'hah Mythos - (1995) - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - The Secret of Kralitz - (1936) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
11 - The Eater of Souls - (1937) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
17 - The Salem Horror - [Michael Leigh] - (1937) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
37 - The Black Kiss - [Michael Leigh] - (1937) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and Robert Bloch
59 - The Jest of Droom-Avista - (1937) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
65 - Spawn of Dagon - [Elak] - (1938) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
85 - The Invaders - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
105 - The Frog - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
125 - Hydra - [Azathoth] - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
143 - Bells of Horror - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner (variant of The Bells of Horror)
161 - The Hunt - (1939) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
179 - Beneath the Tombstone - (1984) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
189 - Dead of Night - [Anton Zarnak] - (1988) - shortstory by Lin Carter

Made in Goatswood: New Tales of Horror in the Severn Valley

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 8

Scott David Aniolowski

Contents:

Made in Goatswood - interior artwork by Earl Geier
ii - Made in Goatswood (frontispiece) - interior artwork by Allen Koszowski
vi - Needing Ghosts and Ancient Images - essay by Scott David Aniolowski
xi - The Severn River Valley (map) - interior artwork by J. Todd Kingrea
1 - A Priestess of Nodens - shortstory by A. A. Attanasio
9 - Ghost Lake - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
21 - Beauty - shortstory by Fred Behrendt
35 - Unseen - shortstory by Penelope Love
51 - Fortunes - shortstory by Keith Herber [as by Keith 'Doc' Herber ]
57 - Cross My Heart, Hope to Die - shortstory by J. Todd Kingrea
75 - I Dream of Wires - shortstory by Scott David Aniolowski
91 - The Turret - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
125 - The Second Effort - shortstory by John Tynes
131 - The Queen - shortstory by Diane Sammarco
143 - The Undercliffe Sentences - shortstory by Peter Cannon
161 - The Awakening - shortstory by Gary Sumpter
175 - Random Access - shortstory by Michael G. Szymanski
189 - Free the Old Ones - novelette by C. J. Henderson
211 - The Music of the Spheres - shortstory by Kevin A. Ross
223 - Growing Pains - shortstory by Richard Watts
233 - The Beard of Byatis - novelette by Robert M. Price
255 - The Horror Under Warrendown - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell

The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 9

The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror

Contents:

The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait - interior artwork by Earl Geier
ix - What Roodmas Horror - essay by Robert M. Price
xiii - The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait (frontispiece) - interior artwork by Allen Koszowski
1 - The Great God Pan - (1894) - novella by Arthur Machen
48 - The White People - (1904) - novelette by Arthur Machen
82 - The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
122 - The Shuttered Room - (1959) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth ]
153 - The Round Tower (Being the Narrative of Armitage Harper) - (1990) - novelette by Robert M. Price
177 - The Devil's Hop Yard - (1978) - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
192 - The Road to Dunwich - (1973) - shortstory by Ben P. Indick [as by Ben Indick ]
203 - The Tree-House - (1995) - shortstory by W. H. Pugmire and Robert M. Price
216 - You Can't Take It With You - [Teddy London] - (1987) - shortstory by C. J. Henderson
236 - Wilbur Whateley Waiting - (1987) - shortstory by Robert M. Price

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 11

The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter

Contents:

The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror - interior artwork by Earl Geier
vii - The Other Name of Azathoth - essay by Robert M. Price
vii - The Kraken - (1830) - poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]
xvii - Cthulhu as drawn by H. P. Lovecraft - interior artwork by H. P. Lovecraft
2 - A Shop in Go-by Street - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 2] - (1912) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
10 - Count Magnus - (1904) - shortstory by M. R. James
24 - The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
54 - The Black Island - [The Trail of Cthulhu - 5] - (1952) - novelette by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth]
88 - Some Notes Concerning a Green Box - (1971) - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
98 - Patiently Waiting - [Inspector Legrasse] - (1996) - novelette by C. J. Henderson
136 - The Sign of Kutullu - (1974) - shortstory by David C. Smith
142 - Recrudescence - (1988) - novelette by Leonard Carpenter
184 - Rude Awakening - (1995) - shortstory by Will Murray
198 - The Eye of Hlu-Hlu - (1993) - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
214 - Black Fire - (1995) - shortstory by Will Murray
226 - In the Light of the Lamp - (1993) - shortstory by Steven Paulsen
240 - Zombies from R'lyeh - (1994) - novelette by Pierre Comtois

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 13

Lin Carter

Contents:

The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter - interior artwork by Dave Carson
vii - Xothic Romance: Terrors Out of Time - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - The Red Offering - shortfiction
6 - The Dweller in the Tomb - (1971) - shortstory
17 - The Thing in the Pit - (1980) - shortstory
27 - Out of the Ages - (1975) - novelette
49 - The Horror in the Gallery - shortfiction
95 - The Winfield Heritance - (1981) - novelette
116 - Perchance to Dream - [Anton Zarnak] - (1988) - shortstory
127 - Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods - (1988) - shortstory
146 - Editor's Note (Dreams from R'lyeh: A Sonnet Cycle) - [Dreams from R'lyeh] - (1975) - shortfiction
149 - Arkham - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 2] - (1964) - poem
149 - Remembrances - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 1] - (1964) - poem
150 - The Festival - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 3] - (1964) - poem
150 - The Old Wood - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 4] - (1964) - poem
151 - The Locked Attic - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 5] - (1964) - poem
151 - The Shunned Church - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 6] - (1964) - poem
152 - The Last Ritual - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 7] - (1964) - poem
152 - The Library - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 8] - (1965) - poem
153 - Black Thirst - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 9] - (1971) - poem
153 - The Elder Age - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 10] - (1968) - poem
154 - Lost R'lyeh - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 11] - (1966) - poem
154 - Unknown Kadath - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 12] - (1966) - poem
155 - Abdul Alhazred - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 13] - (1966) - poem
155 - Hyperborea - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 14] - (1968) - poem
156 - The Book of Eibon - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 15] - (1968) - poem
156 - Tsathoggua - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 16] - (1965) - poem
157 - Black Zimbabwe - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 17] - (1975) - poem
157 - The Return - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 18] - (1966) - poem
158 - Black Lotus - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 20] - (1965) - poem
158 - The Sabbat - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 19] - (1961) - poem
159 - Carcosa - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 22] - (1961) - poem
159 - The Unspeakable - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 21] - (1965) - poem
160 - The Candidate - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 23] - (1965) - poem
160 - The Dream-Daemon - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 24] - (1961) - poem
161 - Dark Yuggoth - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 25] - (1961) - poem
161 - The Silver Key - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 26] - (1966) - poem
162 - Spawn of the Black Goat - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 28] - (1968) - poem
162 - The Peaks Beyond Throk - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 27] - (1968) - poem
163 - Beyond - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 29] - (1968) - poem
163 - The Accursed - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 30] - (1968) - poem
164 - The Million Favored Ones - [Dreams from R'lyeh - 31] - (1968) - poem
165 - Something in the Moonlight - (1980) - novelette
179 - The Fishers from Outside - (1988) - shortstory
194 - Behind the Mask - (1987) - shortstory
209 - The Strange Doom of Enos Harker - shortfiction with Robert M. Price
219 - The Soul of the Devil-Bought - [Anton Zarnak] - shortfiction by Robert M. Price
234 - The Bell in the Tower - (1989) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and Lin Carter

The Nyarlarthotep Cycle: The God of a Thousand Forms

Cthulhu Cycle: Book 14

At the Mountains of Madness

Contents:

The Nyarlathotep Cycle: The God of a Thousand Forms - interior artwork by Dave Carson
vii - Introduction: The Theology of Nyarlathotep - essay by Robert M. Price
1 - Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet - [Pegana] - shortstory by Lord Dunsany [as by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany]
3 - The Sorrow of Search - [Pegana] - shortstory by Lord Dunsany [as by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany]
9 - Nyarlathotep - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - poem by H. P. Lovecraft
14 - Three Poems - essay by Robert M. Price
15 - The Second Coming - (1920) - poem by William Butler Yeats
16 - Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls - (1987) - poem by Robert E. Howard
17 - Nyarlathotep - [Fungi from Yuggoth - 21] - (1931) - poem by H. P. Lovecraft
18 - The Dreams in the Witch House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of The Dreams in the Witch-House)
49 - The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
69 - The Dweller in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1944) - novelette by August Derleth
101 - The Titan in the Crypt - (1963) - shortstory by J. G. Warner
114 - Fane of the Black Pharaoh - (1937) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
129 - Curse of the Black Pharaoh - novella by Lin Carter
201 - The Curse of Nephren-Ka - shortstory by John Cockcroft
206 - The Temple of Nephren-Ka - shortstory by Philip J. Rahman and Glenn Rahman [as by Glenn A. Rahman and Philip J. Rahman]
215 - The Papyrus of Nephren-Ka - shortstory by Robert C. Culp
224 - The Snout in the Alcove - (1977) - shortstory by Gary Myers
233 - The Contemplative Sphinx - (1989) - poem by Richard L. Tierney
235 - Ech-Pi-El's Ægypt - poem by Ann K. Schwader
237 - The Elder Lords - poem by Ann K. Schwader
238 - The Tomb of Nephren-Ka - poem by Ann K. Schwader
239 - Lord of the Dead - poem by Ann K. Schwader
239 - Dream-Gates - poem by Ann K. Schwader

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.

The Call of Cthulhu

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.

The Dunwich Horror

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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.

Glynn Owen Barrass
Brian M. Sammons

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.

The Children of Gla'aki

Cthulhu Mythos Anthology

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

Through a Mythos Darkly

Cthulhu Mythos Anthology

Glynn Owen Barrass
Brian M. Sammons

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

The Disciples of Cthulhu

Disciples of Cthulhu: Book 1

Edward P. Berglund

Contents:

ii - The Disciples of Cthulhu (frontispiece) - interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
vii - Editor's Foreword (The Disciples of Cthulhu) - essay by Edward P. Berglund
9 - Introduction (The Disciples of Cthulhu) - essay by Robert Bloch
15 - The Fairground Horror - novelette by Brian Lumley
50 - The Silence of Erika Zann - shortstory by James Wade
61 - All-Eye - shortstory by Bob van Laerhoven (trans. of Hingoo 1978)
74 - The Tugging - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
101 - Where Yidhra Walks - novelette by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
130 - The Feaster from Afar - shortstory by Joseph Payne Brennan
141 - Zoth-Ommog - novella by Lin Carter
194 - Darkness, My Name Is - novelette by Eddy C. Bertin
242 - The Terror from the Depths - [Cthulhu Mythos] - novelette by Fritz Leiber

The Disciples of Cthulhu II: Blasphemous Tales of the Followers

Disciples of Cthulhu: Book 2

Edward P. Berglund

Bad things tend happen to people who go where they are not wanted, or who over-stay their welcome once they reach their destination.

This book contains thirteen new personal explorations of the Cthulhu Mythos. As its title suggests, this is a companion volume to Edward P. Berglund's earlier classic Mythos collection, The Disciples of Cthulhu. Both books are published by Chaosium, but their contents are entirely different. Twelve of the stories in Disciples II are original and have never been published before.

All the stories record the dire fates of people whose destinies intertwine with the Mythos.

Contents:

xiii - Editor's Preface (The Disciples of Cthulhu II: Blasphemous Tales of the Followers) - (2003) - essay by Edward P. Berglund
1 - The Bookseller's Second Wife - (2003) - novelette by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
32 - Eldritch - (2003) - novelette by Fred Olen Ray and Brad Linaweaver
53 - The Web - (2003) - shortstory by Gary Myers
60 - Passing Through - (2003) - shortstory by Robert Weinberg
73 - The Idol - (1999) - shortstory by Scott David Aniolowski
90 - Time in the Hourless House - (2003) - shortstory by A. A. Attanasio
95 - Special Order - (2003) - novelette by John Henry Campbell and Terry Lee Sanders and Oreta Forrestine Hinamon Taylor [as by Henry Lee Forrest]
121 - Lujan's Trunk - (2003) - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
135 - The San Francisco Treat - (2003) - shortstory by C. J. Henderson
141 - Acute Spiritual Fear - (2003) - novelette by Robert M. Price
172 - The Eldridge Collection - (2003) - novelette by Will Murray
194 - An Arkham Home Companion - (2003) - shortstory by Brad Strickland
198 - The Last Temptation of Ricky Perez - (2003) - shortstory by Benjamin Adams

The Night Land

Hyperion Classics of Science Fiction: Book 24

William Hope Hodgson

The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. H. P. Lovecraft's described the novel as "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written". According to critical consensus, in this work, despite his often laboured and clumsy language, Hodgson achieves a deep power of expression, which focuses on a sense not only of terror but of the ubiquity of potential terror, of the thinness of the invisible bound between the world of normality and an underlying reality for which humans are not suited.

In the distant future, the sun has burned out, plunging the world into perpetual twilight. All of the remaining humanity has dwindled to a single, eight-mile-high pyramid called The Last Redoubt. Horrific creatures have evolved that lurk in the darkness. After a second dying Lesser Redoubt is discovered, one man is determined to rescue its last surviving inhabitant, but that means traversing the unknown and terrifying Night Land.

H. P. Lovecraft and Others: Shadows Over Innsmouth

Lovecraft and Others: Book 1

H. P. Lovecraft and Others: Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth

Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's classic, today's masters of horror take up their pens and turn once more to that decayed, forsaken New England fishing village with its sparkling treasure, loathsome denizens, and unspeakable evil. This anthology features seventeen chilling stories by authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, as well as the original masterpiece of horror.

Contents:

ix - Introduction: Spawn of the Deep Ones (Shadows Over Innsmouth) - essay by Stephen Jones
1 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
51 - Beyond the Reef - novella by Basil Copper
101 - The Big Fish - [The Diogenes Club] - novelette by Kim Newman [as by Jack Yeovil ]
127 - Return to Innsmouth - (1992) - shortstory by Guy N. Smith
132 - The Crossing - shortstory by Adrian Cole
146 - Down to the Boots - (1989) - shortstory by D. F. Lewis
149 - The Church in High Street - (1962) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
161 - Innsmouth Gold - shortstory by David Sutton
173 - Daoine Domhain - (1992) - novelette by Peter Tremayne
191 - A Quarter to Three - (1988) - shortstory by Kim Newman
195 - The Tomb of Priscus - novelette by Brian Mooney
221 - The Innsmouth Heritage - (1992) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
237 - The Homecoming - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
255 - Deepnet - shortstory by David Langford
260 - To See the Sea - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
285 - Dagon's Bell - (1988) - novelette by Brian Lumley
316 - Only the End of the World Again - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
330 - Afterwords: Contributors' Notes (Shadows Over Innsmouth) - essay by uncredited

Lovecraft and Others: Book 2

H. P. Lovecraft and Others: Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth

For decades, H. P. Lovecraft's masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today's most prominent and well-respected horror authors - the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes.. Included is Lovecraft's own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Contents:

1 - Introduction: Weird Shadows... - essay by Stephen Jones
6 - Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" - (1931) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
13 - The Quest for Y'ha-nthlei - novelette by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
34 - Brackish Waters - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
62 - Voices in the Water - shortstory by Basil Copper
81 - Another Fish Story - [The Diogenes Club] - novelette by Kim Newman
115 - Take Me to the River - novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley ]
142 - The Coming - (1997) - shortstory by Hugh B. Cave
156 - Eggs - (2000) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
169 - From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6 - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
196 - Raised by the Moon - (2001) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
211 - Fair Exchange - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
228 - The Taint - novella by Brian Lumley
281 - Afterwords: Contributors' Notes - essay by uncredited

Lovecraft and Others: Book 3

H. P. Lovecraft
August Derleth

Respected horror anthologist Stephen Jones edits this collection of 17 stories inspired by the 20th century's master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," in which a young man goes to an isolated, desolate fishing village in Massachusetts, and finds that the entire village has interbred with strange creatures that live beneath the sea, and worship ancient gods.

Contents:

xiii - Introduction: Weirder Shadows... - essay by Stephen Jones
1 - The Port - [Fungi from Yuggoth - 8] - (1930) - poem by H. P. Lovecraft
2 - Innsmouth Bane - (2005) - shortstory by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
17 - Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in "The Case of the French Spy" - [The Diogenes Club] - (2005) - novelette by Kim Newman
46 - Innsmouth Clay - (1971) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
58 - The Archbishop's Well - novelette by Reggie Oliver
83 - You Don't Want To Know - novelette by Adrian Cole
108 - Fish Bride - (2009) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
119 - The Hag Stone - novelette by Conrad Williams
153 - On the Reef - (2011) - shortfiction by Caitlín R. Kiernan
162 - The Song of Sighs - shortstory by Angela Slatter
179 - The Same Deep Waters as You - novelette by Brian Hodge
218 - The Winner - (2005) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
232 - The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
237 - The Chain - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
258 - Into the Water - shortstory by Simon Kurt Unsworth
275 - Rising, Not Dreaming - (2011) - shortstory by Angela Slatter
279 - The Long Last Night - (2012) - novelette by Brian Lumley
314 - Afterwords: Contributors' Notes - essay by Stephen Jones

Lovecraft Country

Lovecraft Country: Book 1

Matt Ruff

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George--publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide--and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite--heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors--they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn--led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb--which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his--and the whole Turner clan's--destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism--the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

The Watchers Out of Time

Masters of Horror: Book 5

Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion -- and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print, including:

Wentworth's Day - A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and void, until he discovers just how terrifying interest rates can be.
The Shuttered Room - A sophisticated gentleman must settle his grandfather's estate, only to find that the house shelters dark secrets.
The Dark Brotherhood - A beautiful woman and her companion meet the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, in a tale as terrifying as anything Poe himself ever created.
Innsmouth Clay - A sculptor returns from Paris to create a statue not entirely of this world -- and not at all under his control.
Witches' Hollow - A new schoolteacher puts his soul in peril while trying to save one of his students from a ravenous creature.

Table of Contents:

Foreword - essay by April Derleth
The Lurker at the Threshold - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1945) - novel by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Survivor - (1954) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
Wentworth's Day - (1957) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Peabody Heritage - (1957) - novelette by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Gable Window - (1957) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Ancestor - (1957) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Shadow Out of Space - (1957) - novelette by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Lamp of Alhazred - (1957) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Shuttered Room - (1959) - novelette by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Fisherman of Falcon Point - (1959) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
Witches' Hollow - (1962) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Shadow in the Attic - (1964) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Dark Brotherhood - (1966) - novelette by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Horror from the Middle Span - (1967) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
Innsmouth Clay - (1971) - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
The Watchers Out of Time - short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft

Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!

Necroscope

Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! is a collection of eight long short stories featuring Brian Lumley's most popular characters and includes three brand-new stories of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope!

Titus Crow: Psychic detective, master magician, destroyer of the ancient Chthulian gods. In "Inception," we see the infant Titus at the moment his destiny falls upon him. In "Lord of the Worms," a simple secretarial job lands Crow on a sacrificial altar. And in "Name and Number," Henri Laurent de Marigny details a battle between Titus Crow and malevolent, occult winds which can rip living flesh from bone.

David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer: once men of the waking world, now agents for King Kuranes of the Dreamlands. Sips of "The Weird Wines of Naxas Niss" send the pair on a tumultuous journey from a buxom beauty's bed to the depths of a wizard's dungeon. Then, seeking his missing friend, David Hero boards an ill-fated airship that is home to "The Stealer of Dreams."

Harry Keogh, Necroscope: vampire killer without peer, capable of conversing with the dead. A sudden windfall brings Harry to Las Vegas, where he meets "Dead Eddie," a gambler who can't resist trying for one last big win from beyond the grave. In "Dinosaur Dreams, Harry's interest in fossils leads him to uncover the truth behind the death of a young amateur paleontologist... and to discover that it's not just dead people he can call on in a crisis.... Harry's undying love for his mother leads him down a dangerous path in "Resurrection."

Four of Lumley's greatest heroes. Three of his most popular worlds. Tales to chill and to delight. Open the book and be swept away.

Necroscope

Necroscope: Book 1

DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES... Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.

In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge.

The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead.

Dragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but world domination. he will rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead.

His only opponent: Harry Koegh, champion of the dead and the living.

To protect Harry, the dead will do anything - even rise from their graves!

Vamphyri!

Necroscope: Book 2

Not the end of life, Harry Keogh discovered--and not the end of his battle against he terrible evil of vampires. -- In a secluded English village, Yulian Bodescu plots his takeover of the world. Imbued with a vampire's powers before his birth, Bodescu rules men's minds and bodies with supernatural ease. He is secretly creating an army of vampiric monsters, things that once were men but were now walking masses of destructive hunger!

Harry Keogh, Necroscope, thought that the war with the vampires had ended with the destruction of Boris Dragasani--and of Harry's body! But the man who talks to the dead lives on, more powerful than ever, able to transport himself instantly to any spot on the globe and to speak mind-to-mind with both the living and the dead.

Are Harry's new powers enough to defeat Yulian Bodescu and his legion of monsters--or will the vampire army overrun the living earth?

The Source

Necroscope: Book 3

The third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming towers, impossible cliffs, and ravenous vampire-beasts.

Russia's Ural Mountains hide a deadly secret: a supernatural portal to the country of the vampires. Soviet scientists and ESP-powered spies, in a secret military base, study the portal--and the powerfully evil creatures that emerge from it, intent on ravaging mankind.

When Jazz Simmons, a British agent sent to infiltrate the base, is captured by the KGB espionage squad and forced through the portal, his last message tells Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, that the vampires are preparing for a mass invasion.

Harry has only one option--to strike first. He must carry the human-vampire war to the vampire's own lands. But his strongest psychic power will be useless there. What good is the power to summon the dead in a country where nothing ever dies, where every man, woman, and child become half-dead servants of the Vamphyri?

Deadspeak

Necroscope: Book 4

A new vampire stalks the earth, and only Harry Keogh can defeat him!

The silence of the grave is not silent at all. In their millions, the dead are screaming... but no one can hear them!

Atop a perilous cliff, deep in the Balkan mountains, rises the castle of the Ferenczy. Once it was a stronghold of the Vamphyri... and now it will be so again, for Janos Ferenczy, vampire and black magician, has risen from his ages-long sleep. Powerful and evil, Janos conjures dead men and women into a semblance of life and subjects them to fiendish tortures.

But the shrieks of the dead do not satisfy Janos's lust for blood-- for that he needs living humans. His terrifying armies of the risen dead will soon overwhelm a helpless, defenseless mankind....

Helpless and defenseless because a terrible battle against the vampires has destroyed Harry Keogh's deadspeak, leaving the Necroscope deaf to the teeming dead... and to their warnings of Janos's reign of terror.

To save the world, Harry must join forces and link minds with the most powerful, and deadliest, vampire of all!

Deadspawn

Necroscope: Book 5

New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird

There's a maniacal murderer on the loose, brutally slaughtering young women with a ferocity that rivals that of vampires Harry Koegh has spent his life combatting. The Necroscope's been asked to solve the crimes... asked by the dead spirits of the madman's victims.

Harry cannot turn down a request from the dead... even if it costs him his soul. In the climactic battle with the vampires, mankind prevailed and purged the vampires from earth--thanks to Harry, his team of psychically-gifted spies, and Faethor Ferenczy, long-dead 'father' of the world's vampires, who betrayed his own kind.

But Harry's alliance with Faethor has a terrible cost--Harry's very humanity is under attack from the vampire evil coiled in his mind!

New Cthulhu: Book 1

Paula Guran

For more than eighty years H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers of supernatural fiction, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and gaming. His themes of cosmic indifference, the utter insignificance of humankind, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history - written with a pervasive atmosphere of unexplainable dread - today remain not only viable motifs, but are more relevant than ever as we explore the mysteries of a universe in which our planet is infinitesimal and climatic change is overwhelming it. In the first decade of the twenty-first century the best supernatural writers no longer imitate Lovecraft, but they are profoundly influenced by the genre and the mythos he created. NEW CTHULHU: THE RECENT WEIRD presents some of the best of this new Lovecraftian fiction - bizarre, subtle, atmospheric, metaphysical, psychological, filled with strange creatures and stranger characters - eldritch, unsettling, evocative, and darkly appealing.

New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird

New Cthulhu: Book 2

Paula Guran

Many of the best weird fiction writers (and creators in most other media) have been profoundly influenced by the genre and the mythos H.P. Lovecraft created eight decades ago. Lovecraft's themes of cosmic indifference, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history - written with a pervasive atmosphere of unexplainable dread - are more relevant than ever as we explore the mysteries of a universe in which our planet is infinitesimal and climatic change is overwhelming it. A few years ago, New Cthulhu : The Recent Weird presented some of the best of this new Lovecraftian fiction from the first decade of the twenty-first century. Now, New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird brings you more eldritch tales and even fresher fiction inspired by Lovecraft.

Contents:

"Introduction" by Paula Guran
"The Same Deep Waters as You" by Brian Hodge
"Mysterium Tremendum" by Laird Barron
"The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
"Bloom" by John Langan
"At Home with Azathoth" by John Shirley
"The Litany of Earth" by Ruthanna Emrys
"Necrotic Cove" by Lois H. Gresh
"On Ice" by Simon Strantzas
"The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
"All My Love, A Fishhook" by Helen Marshall
"The Doom That Came to Devil Reef" by Don Webb
"Momma Durtt" by Michael Shea
"They Smell of Thunder" by W. H. Pugmire
"The Song of Sighs" by Angela Slatter
"Fishwife" by Carrie Vaughn
"In the House of the Hummingbirds" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"Who Looks Back?" by Kyla Ward
"Equoid" by Charles Stross
"The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft" by Marc Laidlaw

Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader

Night Gallery: Book 3

Martin H. Greenberg

Table of Contents:

ix - Introduction (Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader) - essay by Carol Serling
1 - The Escape Route - (1967) - novella by Rod Serling
71 - The Dead Man - (1950) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
104 - The Little Black Bag - (1950) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
138 - The House - (1932) - short story by André Maurois (trans. of La maison 1931)
141 - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes - (1950) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
152 - The Academy - (1965) - short story by David Ely
163 - The Devil Is Not Mocked - (1943) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
171 - Brenda - (1954) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
184 - Big Surprise - (1959) - short story by Richard Matheson
191 - House--With Ghost - (1962) - short story by August Derleth
199 - The Dark Boy - (1957) - short story by August Derleth
215 - Pickman's Model - (1927) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
230 - Cool Air - (1928) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
240 - Sorworth Place - [Ralph Bain] - (1952) - novelette by Russell Kirk
261 - The Return of the Sorcerer - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
279 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - short story by Fritz Leiber
297 - The Horsehair Trunk - (1946) - short story by Davis Grubb
308 - The Ring with the Velvet Ropes - (1968) - short story by Edward D. Hoch

Hammers on Bone

Persons Non Grata: Book 1

Cassandra Khaw

John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He's been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid's stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable.

He's also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he's hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth.

As Persons investigates the horrible McKinsey, he realizes that he carries something far darker. He's infected with an alien presence, and he's spreading that monstrosity far and wide. Luckily Persons is no stranger to the occult, being an ancient and magical intelligence himself. The question is whether the private dick can take down the abusive stepdad without releasing the holds on his own horrifying potential.

A Song for Quiet

Persons Non Grata: Book 2

Cassandra Khaw

Deacon James is a rambling bluesman straight from Georgia, a black man with troubles that he can't escape, and music that won't let him go. On a train to Arkham, he meets trouble -- visions of nightmares, gaping mouths and grasping tendrils, and a madman who calls himself John Persons. According to the stranger, Deacon is carrying a seed in his head, a thing that will destroy the world if he lets it hatch.

The mad ravings chase Deacon to his next gig. His saxophone doesn't call up his audience from their seats, it calls up monstrosities from across dimensions. As Deacon flees, chased by horrors and cultists, he stumbles upon a runaway girl, who is trying to escape her father, and the destiny he has waiting for her. Like Deacon, she carries something deep inside her, something twisted and dangerous. Together, they seek to leave Arkham, only to find the Thousand Young lurking in the woods.

The song in Deacon's head is growing stronger, and soon he won't be able to ignore it any more.

Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions

Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: Book 1

Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventures of the Neural Psychoses

A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his former partner, Dr. John Watson. They discover the common thread tying together the murders. Bizarre geometries, based on ancient schematics, enable otherworldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking to wreak havoc and destruction. The persons responsible are gaining so much power that even Holmes's greatest enemy fears them - to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance.

Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: Book 2

Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Innsmouth Mutations

Amelia Scarcliffe's monstrous brood, harbingers of Cthulhu, will soon spawn. Her songs spell insanity, death... and illimitable wealth. And Moriarty will do anything to get his hands on gold, even if it means tearing down the walls between this world and a realm of horrors.

Meanwhile, after Sherlock Holmes's last tangle with the Order of Dagon, horrifying monsters haunt the Thames, and madness stalks the streets of Whitechapel. Gang war between Moriarty's thugs and the powerful cult can only bring more terror--unless Holmes and Dr. Watson can prevent it. But can they find the cause of the neural psychoses before Watson himself succumbs?

Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: Book 3

Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows

Now united, both Fitzgerald and Moriarty travel to Innsmouth, the stronghold of the cult of the Old Ones. Holmes and Watson, accompanied by Mycroft Holmes, follow them across the ocean and discover a structure designed to bring the Old Ones into the human sphere. Yet when it is destroyed people continue to mutate and go mad.

Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks: Book 1

Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close. Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. Forces that can be summoned, if one is brave - or mad - enough to dare...

Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks: Book 2

Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils

It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R'lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is.

The detectives discover that the inmate was once a scientist, a student of Miskatonic University, and one of two survivors of a doomed voyage down the Miskatonic River to capture the semi-mythical shoggoth. Yet how has he ended up in London, without his wits? And when the man is taken from Bedlam by forces beyond normal mortal comprehension, it becomes clear that there is far more to the case than one disturbed Bostonian. It is only by learning what truly happened on that fateful New England voyage that Holmes and Watson will uncover the truth, and learn who is behind the Miskatonic monstrosity...

Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks: Book 3

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin, in which the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft collide.

It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have battled R'lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty. Europe is creeping inexorably towards war, and a more cosmic conflict is nearing its zenith, as in a single night all the most eminent members of the Diogenes Club die horribly, seemingly by their own hands. Holmes suspects it is the handiwork of a German spy working for R'lluhloig, but his search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.

The companions retreat to Holmes's farm on the Sussex Downs, and it is not long before a client comes calling. Three young women have disappeared from the nearby town of Newford, and the locals have no doubt who is responsible. For legend has it that strange amphibious creatures dwell in a city on the seabed, coming ashore every few centuries to take fresh captives. As Holmes and Watson seek out the terrifying interlopers, the scene is set for the final battle that will bring them face to face with the Sussex Sea-Devils, and perhaps with Cthulhu himself...

Sherlock Holmes: The Cthulhu Casebooks: Book 4

It's 1929 and an ageing Dr John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true events behind his published accounts of Sherlock Holmes's exploits. In these pages, Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart companion encounter reanimated corpses in Highgate Cemetery; a very different, though ever elusive, Irene Adler; tales of madness and murder in the frozen wastes of the north; grotesque organic machines; and much more. Each case brings the illustrious pair ever closer to the dramatic and terrifying truth about the mysterious aliens, the Mi-Go, and their plans for Earth...

Red Equinox

Spectra Files: Book 1

Douglas Wynne

The Red Equinox has dawned, and the old gods who have slept for aeons are stirring.

Urban explorer and photographer Becca Philips was raised in the shadow of Miskatonic University, steeped in the mysteries of her late grandmother's work in occult studies. But what she thought was myth becomes all too real when cultists unleash terror on the city of Boston. Now she's caught between a shadowy government agency called SPECTRA and the followers of an apocalyptic faith bent on awakening an ancient evil.

As urban warfare breaks out between eldritch monsters and an emerging police state, she must uncover the secrets of a family heirloom known as the Fire of Cairo to banish the rising tide of darkness before the balance tips irrevocably at the Red Equinox.

Black January

Spectra Files: Book 2

Douglas Wynne

WELCOME TO THE WADE HOUSE

WHERE THE DOORS OPEN YOU

Two years after the Starry Wisdom Church unleashed their dark gods in Boston, Becca Philips is trying to put the events of the Red Equinox behind her when Agent Brooks tracks her down in Brazil. Becca has been summoned back to Massachusetts by SPECTRA, the covert agency entrusted with keeping cosmic horrors at bay. Her special perception and skills are requested at the Wade House--a transfiguring mansion of portals to malevolent dimensions.

Becca would like to refuse, but Brooks believes her estranged father may be lost between worlds at the abandoned estate. As Becca struggles with grief and forgiveness, she joins a team of explorers uniquely suited to decode the secrets of the strange house in the black snow. But what secrets do her companions harbor? And who among them will take theirs to the grave?

Cthulhu Blues

Spectra Files: Book 3

Douglas Wynne

The Wade House has been reduced to ash, but the dreams that plagued Becca Philips and Jason Brooks when they slept in that abomination continue to haunt them. After years of facing trans-dimensional monsters in the service of SPECTRA, a few lingering nightmares are to be expected. But when Becca starts singing in her sleep--an ancient song that conjures dreadful things from mirrored surfaces--she fears that the harmonics she was exposed to during the Red Equinox terror event may have mutated not only her perception, but also her voice. It's a gift--or curse--that she shares with a select group of children born to other witnesses of the incursion.

While a shadowy figure known as the "Crimson Minstrel" gathers these children to form an infernal choir, something ancient stirs on the ocean floor. And Becca, hearing its call, once again finds herself running from an agency she can no longer trust, into the embrace of cosmic forces she can barely comprehend.

Starmont Reader's Guide: Book 13

The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft

Contains twenty four short stories, novelettes, and short novels, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and At the Mountains of Madness, as well as twenty six poems. This edition has a fine introduction by S.T. Joshi, photographs of H.P. Lovecraft, and an attractive binding, uniform with others in this series.

Starry Wisdom: Book 1

D. M. Mitchell

THE STARRY WISDOM - contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness - many inspired directly by the life and writings of H.P. Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes in their own bizarre sub-texts.

Here the primal beings of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stalk a post-modern landscape of social collapse, ethnic cleansing, genetic engineering and nuclear devastation - nightmare prophecies from his pulp pages which have now come chillingly true.

In THE STARRY WISDOM, the undercurrents of sexual and ecological displacement which powered Lovecraft's work have finally been laid bare, providing this maligned genius with a long-overdue retrospective and revealing him to be a true prophet of the 20th century.

Contents:

7 - Introduction (The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft) - (1994) - essay by Ramsey Campbell
9 - Foreword (The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft) - (1994) - essay by D. M. Mitchell
13 - Lovecraft in Heaven - (1994) - shortstory by Grant Morrison
19 - Third Eye Butterfly - (1994) - shortfiction by James Havoc and Mike Philbin
24 - A Thousand Young - (1989) - shortstory by Robert M. Price
33 - The Night Sea-Maid Went Down - (1971) - shortstory by Brian Lumley
40 - From This Swamp - (1994) - shortstory by Henry Wessells
43 - Prisoner of the Coral Deep - (1964) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
47 - Black Static - (1994) - novelette by David Conway
61 - Red Mass - (1994) - shortstory by Dan Kellett
65 - Wind Die You Die We Die - (1968) - shortstory by William S. Burroughs
69 - The Call of Cthulhu - (1994) - shortstory by John Coulthart and H. P. Lovecraft
101 - Potential - (1973) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
107 - Walpurgisnachtmusik - (1994) - shortstory by Simon Whitechapel
115 - Meltdown - (1994) - shortstory by D. F. Lewis
121 - Beyond Reflection - (1990) - shortstory by John Beal
124 - This Exquisite Corpse - (1994) - shortfiction by C. G. Brandrick and D. M. Mitchell
127 - Extracted from the Mouth of the Consumer, Rotting Pig - (1994) - shortstory by Michael Gira
133 - Hypothetical Materfamilias - (1994) - shortstory by Adele Olivia Gladwell
141 - The Sound of a Door Opening - (1993) - shortstory by Don Webb
147 - The Courtyard - (1994) - shortstory by Alan Moore
155 - Pills for Miss Betsy - (1994) - shortfiction by Rick Grimes
162 - The Dreamers in Darkness - (1993) - shortstory by Peter Smith
166 - Sex-Invocation of the Great Old Ones (23 Nails) - (1994) - poem by Stephen Sennitt
168 - Ward 23 - (1994) - shortstory by D. M. Mitchell
176 - About the Contributors (The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft) - (1994) - essay by uncredited

Songs of the Black Wurm Gism: Hymns to H.P. Lovecraft

Starry Wisdom: Book 2

D. M. Mitchell

SONGS OF THE BLACK WURM GISM: CULT, OCEANIC, INSECT, PORN; A VORTEX OF COSMIC MAYHEM STALKED BY RAVENING LYSERGIC ENTITIES. A POST-HUMAN PSYCHEDELIC SEIZURE OF LOVECRAFTIAN TEXT, ART AND FRAGMENTS.

SONGS OF THE BLACK WÃ RM GISM picks up where the acclaimed anthology THE STARRY WISDOM left off and goes beyond way beyond! what H.P. Lovecraft dared to show. Editor D.M. Mitchell presents an illustrated brainstorm of visceral deep-sea dream currents, aberrant trans-species sex visions, and frenzied ophidian entropy. Illustrated throughout.

Contributors include: ALAN MOORE, GRANT MORRISON, david britton, ian miller, john beal, david conway, kenji siratori, herzan chimera, james havoc, JOHN COULTHART, D.M. MITCHELL, reza negarastani, & many others

Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors

Studies in Supernatural Literature: Book 1

Robert H. Waugh

Recognized as a major innovator in the weird story, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an author whose influence was felt by nearly every writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. Considered one of the leading writers of gothic horror, Lovecraft and his work continue to inspire writers today.

In Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors, Robert H. Waugh has assembled essays that are vast in scope, ranging from the Bible through the Edwardian period and well into the present. This collection is devoted to authors whose work had an impact on Lovecraft--Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lord Dunsany--and those who drew inspiration from him, including William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti, and Stephen King.

A fascinating anthology, Lovecraft and Influence will appeal to aficionados of classic horror, fantasy, and science fiction and those with an interest in modern authors whose works reflect and honor Lovecraft's enduring legacy.

The Litany of Earth

The Innsmouth Legacy

Ruthanna Emrys

The state took Aphra away from Innsmouth. They took her history, her home, her family, her god. They tried to take the sea. Now, years later, when she is just beginning to rebuild a life, an agent of that government intrudes on her life again, with an offer she wishes she could refuse. "The Litany of Earth" is a dark fantasy story inspired by the Lovecraft mythos.

This short story can also be found in the anthologies New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird (2015), edited by Paula Guran, and Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction (2018), edited by Irene Gallo.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com, or listen to a podcast of this story at Drabblecast.

Winter Tide

The Innsmouth Legacy: Book 1

Ruthanna Emrys

After attacking Devil's Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.

The government that stole Aphra's life now needs her help. FBI agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets from Miskatonic University, secrets that could turn the Cold War hot in an instant, and hasten the end of the human race.

Aphra must return to the ruins of her home, gather scraps of her stolen history, and assemble a new family to face the darkness of human nature.

Includes bonus Aphra Marsh novelette "The Litany of Earth".

Deep Roots

The Innsmouth Legacy: Book 2

Ruthanna Emrys

Aphra Marsh, descendant of the People of the Water, has survived Deep One internment camps and made a grudging peace with the government that destroyed her home and exterminated her people. Now Aphra's journey to rebuild her life and family continues on land, as she tracks down long-lost relatives. She must repopulate Innsmouth or risk seeing it torn down by greedy developers, but as she searches she discovers that people have been going missing. She will have to unravel the mystery, or risk seeing her way of life slip away.

Equoid

The Laundry Files

Hugo-winning Novella

The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside to deal with an outbreak of one of the worst horrors imaginable. For, as it turns out, unicorns are real. They're also ravenous killers from beyond spacetime...

Read this story online for free at Tor.com.

The Concrete Jungle

The Laundry Files

Hugo Award winning novella. It was originally published as an extra in the novel The Atrocity Archives (2004). It can also be found in the anthology Best Short Novels: 2005, edited by Jonathan Strahan.

Read the full story for free at the Golden Gryphon website.

The Atrocity Archives

The Laundry Files: Book 1

Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.

In the title piece, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, completes his theorem on 'Phase Conjugate Grammars for Extra-dimensional Summoning'. Turing's work paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that, when carried out, have side effects that leak through a channel underlying the structure of the Cosmos. Out there in the multiverse are 'listeners' who can sometimes be coerced into opening gates.

In 1945, Nazi Germany's Ahnenerbe-SS, in an attempt to escape the Allied onslaught, performs just such a summoning on the souls of more than six million. A gate opens to an alternate universe through which the SS move people and material - to live to fight another day. But their summoning brings forth more than the SS have bargained for - an evil, patiently waiting all this time while learning the ways of humans, now poises to lunch on Earth. Secret intelligence agencies, esoteric theorems, Lovecraftian horrors, Middle East terrorist connections, a damsel in distress, and a final battle on the surface of a dying planet round out this story.

Includes the Hugo-award-winning novella "The Concrete Jungle", which can be read for free here.

The Jennifer Morgue

The Laundry Files: Book 2

Bob Howard - a T-shirt wearing computer geek and field agent for the super-secret British government agency The Laundry - must save the world from eldritch horrors, codenamed Jennifer Morgue, in this fast-paced spy thriller. Bob's current mission is to stop the evil Ellis Billington from achieving world domination, but he must overcome obstacles including the Gravedust device, which permits communication with the dead; destiny-entanglement protocol; banishment weapons; and Ramona Random, a lethal but beautiful agent for the U.S. counterpart to The Laundry. Billington plans to raise the eldritch horror Jennifer Morgue from the vasty deeps, and communicate with a dead warrior for the purpose of ruling the world.

Blending physics and applied mathematics with the practice of summoning and demonology, this spy-meets-horror novel will keep sci-fi fans on the edge of their seats.

This volume also includes a bonus story, "Pimpf," featuring The Laundry agent Bob Howard in the world of virtual gaming, as well as an afterword entitled "The Golden Age of Spying."

The Fuller Memorandum

The Laundry Files: Book 3

Computational demonologist Bob Howard is taking a much-needed break from the field to catch up on his filing in The Laundry's archives when a top secret dossier known as The Fuller Memorandum vanishes - along with his boss, who the agency's executives believe stole the file.

Determined to discover exactly what the memorandum contained (and perhaps clear his boss), Bob runs afoul of Russian agents, ancient demons, and the apostles of a hideous faith, who have plans to raise a very unpleasant undead entity known as the Eater of Souls.

Now Bob must use all of his skills to learn the secret of the Fuller Memorandum in order to save the world - and avoid becoming an item on the Eater of Souls' dinner menu...

The Apocalypse Codex

The Laundry Files: Book 4

Bob Howard may be humanity's last hope.

Start praying...

For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast-track for promotion to management within The Laundry, the super-secret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to "External Assets," Bob discovers the company-unofficially-employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country.

So when Ray Schiller-an American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the ill-becomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministry and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. And it's Bob's job to make sure Persephone doesn't cause an international incident.

But it's a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry about-a global threat even The Laundry may be unable to clean up...

The Rhesus Chart

The Laundry Files: Book 5

As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry-the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats-Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on things best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do-especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus.

Traders employed by a merchant bank in London are showing signs of infection-an array of unusual symptoms such as superstrength and -speed, an uncanny talent for mind control, an extreme allergic reaction to sunlight, and an unquenchable thirst for blood. While his department is tangled up in bureaucratic red tape (and Buffy reruns), debating how to stop the rash of vampirism, Bob digs deeper into the bank's history-only to uncover a bloodcurdling conspiracy between men and monsters...

The Annihilation Score

The Laundry Files: Book 6

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER...

Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess and deal with the witnesses.

But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack and when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers, the police are called in to help. Mo is appointed as official police liaison, but in between dealing with police bureaucracy, superpowered members of the public and disgruntled politicians, Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage, nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work, the possessed violin known as 'Lecter'.

If this wasn't bad enough, a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein is committing heists and sending increasingly threatening messages to the police. Who is Freudstein and what is he planning?

The Nightmare Stacks

The Laundry Files: Book 7

After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by The Laundry, Britain's secret counter-occult agency that's humanity's first line of defense against the forces of darkness. Dependent on his new employers for his continued existence -- as Alex has no stomach for predatory bloodsucking -- he has little choice but to accept his new role as an operative-in-training.

Dispatched to Leeds, Alex's first assignment is to help assess the costs of renovating a 1950s Cold War bunker into The Laundry's new headquarters. Unfortunately, Leeds is Alex's hometown, and the thought of breaking the news to his parents that he's left banking for civil service, while hiding his undead condition, is causing more anxiety than learning how to live as a vampire secret agent preparing to confront multiple apocalypses.

Alex's only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a drama student appearing in the local Goth Festival who is inexplicably attracted to him despite his awkward personality and massive amounts of sunblock.

But Cassie has secrets of her own -- secrets that make Alex's night life behaviors seem positively normal...

The Labyrinth Index

The Laundry Files: Book 9

The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the House of Lords and head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs (think vampires), finds herself in direct consultation with the creeping chaos, who directs her to lead a team of disgraced Laundry personnel into the dark heart of America. It seems the Creeping Chaos is concerned about foreign relations.

A thousand-mile-wild storm system has blanketed the midwest, and the President is nowhere to be found. In fact, for reasons unknown the people of America are forgetting that the executive branch ever existed. The government has been infiltrated by the shadowy Black Chamber, and the Pentagon and NASA have been refocused on the problem of summoning Cthulhu.

Somewhere, the Secret Service battle to stay awake, to remind the President who he is, and to stay one step ahead of the vampiric dragnet that's searching for him.

Dead Lies Dreaming

The Laundry Files: Book 10

When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains.

As Wendy hunts down Imp – the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves "The Lost Boys" – she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp's sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere.

In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive.

Quantum of Nightmares

The Laundry Files: Book 11

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.

Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she's in charge of the Bigge Corporation?just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago.

Wendy Deere's transhuman abilities have gotten her through many a scrape. Now she's gainfully employed investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn't again get entangled with Eve Starkey's bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right.

Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she's pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized superheroes. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head.

Amanda Sullivan is the HR manager of a minor grocery chain, much oppressed by her glossy blonde boss?who is cooking up an appalling, extralegal scheme literally involving human flesh.

All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results...

Threshold (Clines): Book 1

Peter Clines

Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches.

There are some odd things about Nate's new apartment.

Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn't perfect, it's livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and th eodd little mysteries don't nag at him too much.

At least not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela's apartment. And Tim's, And Veek's.

Because every room in this old Los Angeles brownstone has a mystery or two. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are behind locked doors. And all together these mysteries could mean the end of Nate and his friends.

Or the end of everything...

Agents of Dreamland

Tinfoil Dossier: Book 1

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.

In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible -- the Children of the Next Level -- and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.

A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from 'other' sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.

And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity.

Black Helicopters

Tinfoil Dossier: Book 2

Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency's world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable.

Something strange is happening on the shores of New England. Something stranger still is happening to the world itself, chaos unleashed, rational explanation slipped loose from the moorings of the known. Two rival agencies stare across the Void at one another. Two sisters, the deadly, sickened products of experiments going back decades, desperately evade their hunters.

An invisible war rages at the fringes of our world, with unimaginable consequences and Lovecraftian horrors that ripple centuries into the future.

This edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan's Black Helicopters is an expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella of the same name.

The Tindalos Asset

Tinfoil Dossier: Book 3

A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time.

Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling. He wants to learn if she can stop the latest apocalypse. Ellison, once a unique and valuable asset, can barely remember why she ever fought the good fight.

Still, you don't say no to the Signalman, and the time has come to face her fears and the nightmare forces that almost destroyed her. Only Ellison can unleash the hound of Tindalos.

The Compleat Crow

Titus Crow

'He was tall and broad-shouldered, and it was plain to see that in his younger days he had been a handsome man. Now...his hair had greyed a little, and his eyes, though still very bright and observant, bore the imprint of many a year spent exploring--and often, I guessed, discovering--along rarely trodden paths of mysterious, obscure learning.'

Mysterious, obscure learning...

To many thousands of readers world-wide Titus Crow is the psychic sleuth--the cosmic voyager and investigator--of Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos novels, from The Burrowers Beneath to Elysia.

But before The Burrowers and Crow's Transition, his exploits were chronicled in a series of short stories and novellas uncollected in the USA except in limited editions. Now these stories can be told again. From Inception which tells of Crow's origins, to The Black Recalled, a tale of vengeance from beyond the grave, here in one volume, from the best-selling author of the epic Necroscope series, is The Complete Crow.

The Burrowers Beneath

Titus Crow: Book 1

The Transition of Titus Crow

THE EARTH'S REAL LANDLORDS ARE SURFACING. HERE. NOW...

From the darkly fantastic worlds of H P Lovecraft's world-famous Cthulhu Mythos comes a grimly compelling novel of the Ultimate War, between men--and monsters spawned in Hell!

For millennia, men have strutted in puny pride over the fragile surface of the Earth, arrogantly proclaiming themselves masters of creation. But now their feeble investigations have disturbed the planet's original rulers far beneath the globe's crust. And mankind's placid dreams are about to be wrenched into shattering nightmare.

'They were here before man evolved. They are older than our oldest legends, predating the very dinosaurs. They call to use in our dreams and make us... do things!'

They are THE BURROWERS BENEATH. And they're surfacing right now. Right here...

Titus Crow: Book 2

The Stalker Between the Stars

I smelled the strange winds that roar between the worlds, bearing the odors of darkling planets and the souls of sundered stars. I felt about me the emptiness of remote and infinite vacuums of space, and their coldness. I saw, blazing on a panoply of jet, unknown constellations and nameless nebulae stretching out and away through the light years into unthinkable abysses of space.

Finally, winging through the nearer voids, I spied that enigmatic coffin-shape recognized of old, and again, as in delirious dreams, I heard my lost friend's voice.

I yelled in spontaneous response and would have answered yet again, but then, swelling out of the blackness in the wake of Crow's weird craft, bloating up in a green glow, filling my entire view in an instant, there came...

A shape! Cthulhu!

The Clock of Dreams

Titus Crow: Book 3

In the Clock of Dreams, Cthulhu, one of the Elder Gods, sleeps and dreams - dreams so potent, so powerful, that they can warp reality itself. The mysterious Clock that is capable of hurling men through space and time, even into the monster's dreams, is de Marigny's only hope of finding Titus Crow and saving him from a soul destroying fate.

Spawn of the Winds

Titus Crow: Book 4

Titus Crow and his faithful companion and record-keeper fight the gathering forces of darkness-the infamous and deadly Elder Gods of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu and his dark minions are bent on ruling the earth. A few puny humans cannot possibly stand against these otherworldly evil gods, yet time after time, Titus Crow drives the monsters back into the dark from whence they came.

In the Moons of Borea

Titus Crow: Book 5