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Since HP Lovecraft put pen to paper in 1920 and wrote the short story Nyarlathotep, conjuring up a figure both showman and trickster, unveiling terrible truths with each revelation, the most mysterious of Lovecraft’s gods has paraded upon the stage in a number of masks, a plethora of guises. In some of those there is a glimpse of the personality, the intelligence, lurking behind the visage. In others there is only violence, terror, madness. And yet all part of the same inscrutable entity. Perhaps not even that, if all the world sees is mask upon mask upon mask.Here, friends, are a collection of nine new stories, by authors who saw something in the dark and attempted to bring it, momentarily, into the light, to scare you, to warn you, maybe even to enlighten you.Sweet dreams…

Contents

Prologue by Simon Brake
1. The Innsmouth Girl by Glynn Owen Barrass
2. Cult of the Black Swine • short story by Tim Curran
3. Hate by Adam Gauntlett
4. The Yuggoth Club by John Linwood Grant
5. The Voice on the Line by Jo Kreil
6. Nyarlathotapp by John Houlihan
7. He Shall Puit on the Semblance of Man by Jeffrey Thomas
8. Waking from the Deepest Dream by Rhian Waller
9. I Am the Last by Eygló Karlsdóttir
Epilogue by Simon Brake