Edited by Ross E. Lockhart.
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu mythos
encompass a pantheon of truly existential cosmic horror: Eldritch,
uncaring, alien god-things, beyond mankind's deepest imaginings, drawing ever nearer, insatiably hungry, until one day, when the stars are
right....
As that dread day, hinted at within the moldering pages of the fabled Necronomicon, draws nigh, tales of the Great Old Ones: Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Hastur,
Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, and the weird cults that worship them have
cross-pollinated, drawing authors and other dreamers to imagine the
strange dark aeons ahead, when the dead-but-dreaming gods return.
Now, intrepid anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has delved deep into the
Cthulhu canon, selecting from myriad mind-wracking tomes the best
sanity-shattering stories of cosmic terror. Featuring fiction by many of today's masters of the menacing, macabre, and monstrous, The Book of Cthulhu goes where no collection of Cthulhu mythos tales has before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond!
Do you dare open The Book of Cthulhu? Do you dare heed the call?
Contents:
- Introduction by Ross E. Lockhart
- Andromeda Among the Stones by
Caitlín R. Kiernan
- The Tugging by
Ramsey Campbell
- A Colder War by
Charles Stross
- The Unthinkable by
Bruce Sterling
- Flash Frame by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Some Buried Memory by
W. H. Pugmire
- The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins by
Molly Tanzer
- Fat Face by
Michael Shea
- Shoggoths in Bloom by
Elizabeth Bear
- Black Man with a Horn by
T. E. D. Klein
- Than Curse the Darkness by
David Drake
- Jeroboam Henley's Debt by
Charles R. Saunders
- Nethescurial by
Thomas Ligotti
- Calamari Curls by
Kage Baker
- Jihad Over Innsmouth by
Edward Morris
- Bad Sushi by
Cherie Priest
- The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by
John Hornor Jacobs
- The Doom That Came to Innsmouth by
Brian McNaughton
- Lost Stars by
Ann K. Schwader
- The Oram County Whoosit by
Steve Duffy
- The Crawling Sky by
Joe R. Lansdale
- The Fairground Horror by
Brian Lumley
- Cinderlands by
Tim Pratt
- Lord of the Land by
Gene Wolfe
- To Live and Die in Arkham by
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
- The Shallows by
John Langan
- The Men from Porlock by
Laird Barron
