Most Popular Cthulhu Books

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Green Unpleasant Land Cycle #2

Crimson Hooves

Matt Thomas

Horror · Crime Fiction · Cthulhu · Historical Fiction · Thriller

October 30, 2025

Green Unpleasant Land Cycle #1

Green Unpleasant Land

Matt Thomas

Horror · 19th century · Crime Fiction · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror

May 8, 2025

Cold War Cthulhu

Darrell Schweitzer

Horror · Cthulhu · Anthology

May 2025

North Sea Trilogy #2

Whisperer in Valhalla

Uncredited

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

August 28, 2024

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Specials #2

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Special #2

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

June 22, 2024

The Old Gods Awaken

Donald Tyson

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

October 13, 2024

The Cthulhu Casebooks #4

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

James Lovegrove

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction

September 10, 2024

Call of Cthulhu

Secrets & Sacrifices

Cath Lauria

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Regency · Weird Fiction

June 24, 2024

Call of Cthulhu

The Shadow on the Glass

Jonathan L Howard

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Gaslamp Fantasy · LitRPG

July 2, 2024

Punktown #6

The New God

Jeffrey Thomas

Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Cyberpunk · Weird Fiction

October 15, 2024

A Prisoner of Dreamland

Garrett Boatman

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Dark Fiction

October 6, 2024

The R'lyeh Cycle #2

Black Seas of Infinity

William Holloway

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Collection

July 19, 2024

Lovecraftian Tales of Occult Detection #1

Eldritch Investigations

Tim Mendees

Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Psychological Horror · Utopia

July 31, 2023

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Specials #1

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Special #1

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

August 26, 2023

Mystery Murder Madness Mythos

Glynn Barrass, Brian M. Sammons

Horror · Crime Fiction · Cthulhu · Anthology · Sherlock Holmes

December 1, 2023

Shadows Out of Time

Darrell Schweitzer

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

January 1, 2023

The Slaves of Cthulhu

Tony Richards

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

December 16, 2023

A Bright and Beautiful Eternal World

James Chambers

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Collection

December 3, 2023

Necronomicon Series

Mountain of Shadows and Other Tales of Alhazred

Donald Tyson, Joe Morey

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection

November 22, 2022

North Sea Trilogy #1

The Shadow Over Doggerland

Uncredited

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

November 30, 2022

The Brain Leeches and Other Eldritch Phenomena

Tim Curran

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

October 2, 2022

The Howling Terror and Other Lovecraftian Horror Stories

Tony Richards

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection

November 21, 2022

Hive

The Sunken City

Tim Curran

Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

December 28, 2022

Dead Jack #3

Dead Jack and the Old Gods

James Aquilone

Horror · Crime Fiction · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Zombies

August 12, 2021

The Skinless Face

Donald Tyson

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection

August 7, 2021

The Other: The Nyarlathotep Cycle #3

The Other

Troy Young

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy

September 30, 2021

Where All is Night, and Starless

John Linwood Grant

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Paranormal Fantasy · Psychological Horror

July 9, 2021

Stygian Fox Anthologies

N

Simon Brake

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

May 9, 2021

Cthulhu Deep Down Under #3

Cthulhu Deep Down Under: Volume 3

Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira, Bryce Stevens

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

June 30, 2021

The Jeffrey Thomas Chapbook Series #7

Welcome to Punktown

Jeffrey Thomas

Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Collection

June 24, 2021

The Other: The Nyarlathotep Cycle #2

The Other

Troy Young

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy

October 29, 2020

The Other: The Nyarlathotep Cycle #1

The Other

Troy Young

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy

March 2, 2020

Armchair Fiction Masters of Horror #2

Masters of Horror Vol. Two H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection

June 18, 2020

The Adventures of Solar Pons

The Necronomicon of Solar Pons

Derrick Belanger

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Sherlock Holmes

April 6, 2020

Book of the Elder Wisdom

R. Walter Dutton

Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Mystery

September 1, 2020

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes

James Lovegrove

Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Collection · Sherlock Holmes

January 21, 2020