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{PDF EPUB} Arkham Tales Legends of the Haunted City by James Ambuehl Arkham Tales Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Arkham Tales Legends of the Haunted City by James Ambuehl Arkham Tales. Arkham Tales: Legends of the Haunted City is a 2006 Cthulhu Mythos anthology published by Chaosium. It is a shared universe anthology, meaning all the stories occur in the same fictional universe. The stories all take place in the fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, spanning a time period from 1873 to the present day. The stories all feature elements of the Cthulhu Mythos. The anthology is edited by William Jones. [1] Contents. "Mysterious Dan's Legacy" by Matthew Baugh "Vaughn's Diary" by Robert Vaughn "The Orb" by Tony Campbell "The Nether Collection" by Cody Goodfellow "Worms" by Pat Harrigan "They Thrive in Darkness" by Ron Shiflet "What Sorrows May Come" by Lee Clark Zumpe "Arkham Pets" by James Ambuehl "Small Ghost" by Michael Minnis "Burnt Tea" by Michael Dziesinski "Arkham Rain" by John Goodrich (YBF&H Honorable Mention) "Regrowth" by David Conyers "The Idea of Fear" by C.J. Henderson (YBF&H Honorable Mention) "Disconnected" by Brian M. Sammons (YBF&H Honorable Mention) "The Lady in the Grove" by Scott Lette "On Leave to Arkham" by Bill Bilstad "Geometry of the Soul" by Jason Andrew. References. ^ Jones, Stephen (August 4, 2011). The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 . Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 9781780332772 . Information as of: 14.07.2020 05:07:09 CEST. Changes: All pictures and most design elements which are related to those, were removed. Some Icons were replaced by FontAwesome-Icons. Some templates were removed (like “article needs expansion) or assigned (like “hatnotes”). CSS classes were either removed or harmonized. Wikipedia specific links which do not lead to an article or category (like “Redlinks”, “links to the edit page”, “links to portals”) were removed. Every external link has an additional FontAwesome-Icon. Beside some small changes of design, media-container, maps, navigation-boxes, spoken versions and Geo-microformats were removed. Call of Cthulhu Fiction Ser.: Arkham Tales : Legends of the Haunted City by James Ambuehl, Jason Andrew and Matthew Baugh (2005, Trade Paperback) Arkham Tales deals not just with the Cthulhu Mythos is general, but Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu card and role-playing games in particular, revealing new details on the mysterious Vaughn and other names and scenarios well known to COC players. The authors really excel at digging deep below the surface of Lovecraft's Arkham to unearth fresh terrors. The ever-entertaining ghouls have two stories in this book, as do Frank Belknap Long's terrifying Hounds of Tindalos, and even the infamous familiar Brown Jenkin, from Lovecraft's 'Dreams in the Witch House' gets a story to call his own. Arkham Tales is a fine book, and a great addition to any Lovecraft library. Arkham catch-up. An anthology with 17 short stories about the home of Miskatonic University. By Chaosium Inc. A lot of Lovecraftian role playing tie-ins. A good way to focus on Arkham history. A must for a Cthulhu Mythos completist. Arkham Tales: Legends of the Haunted City by James Ambuehl. WELCOME TO NIGHTSCAPES # 3. THE DISCIPLES OF CTHULHU , edited by Edward P. Berglund. Oakland: Chaosium Books, 1996. 258 pp. $10.95. ISBN 1-56882-054-2. (Revised and reprinted from The Disciples of Cthulhu , edited by Edward P. Berglund, DAW books, 1976) I remember when I first encountered the original edition of this book. I was on a family trip somewhere, and having just recently read all of the major Ballantine Lovecrafts, including Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos , Volumes One and Two, I walked into some nameless bookstore and immediately asked the proprietor if he had anything on Lovecraft or the Cthulhu Mythos. He produced a stack of Lovecraftian fanzines, and a paperback with a haunting portrait of Cthulhu etched against a dark, stormy sky on the cover: The Disciples of Cthulhu . I passed on the fanzines (and I am still kicking myself today for such a blunder -- no telling WHAT was therein!), but immediately snatched up the book. I have vague memories of being bored nearly to death by the trip, visiting relatives I didn't even know I had, but I do remember that throughout it all The Disciples of Cthulhu helped me to keep my sanity. It was one of my first Mythos books, aside from the Lovecraft and Tales , back when I used to be able to keep my Mythos collection in a small box under my bed (now it takes up two bookshelves, three file cabinets and numerous carefully- indexed boxes!), and it's always been one of the very best books in my collection, a highly-treasured friend which I've returned to time and time again. First of all, let me start off by saying that even if you do have the original printing of Disciples , you will still want to pick up this new edition for there have been a few contents changes (and the illustrations by Earl Geier at the end of the stories are very worthwhile too!). As editor Berglund describes in his "Preface to the Revised Edition," some stories from the original had to be dropped. First off, Lin Carter's "Zoth-Ommog" had to go . since it was later reprinted by Chaosium in the Carter collection The Xothic Legend-Cycle , which I also heartily recommend! Second, Joseph Payne Brennan's "The Feaster From Afar" (again later reprinted in the second edition of The Hastur Cycle ) had to go, since at the time of the book's assembling there seemed to be no heirs to be found for the author's literary estate! But luckily, this has now been rectified, and you can all look forward to his fine Ithaqua tale "Jendick's Swamp" (from the Greystone Bay book Doom City , edited by Charles L. Grant, TOR Books, 1987) to be reprinted in the forthcoming Ithaqua Cycle volume! But as replacement for the two stories Berglund reprints A. A. Attanasio's "Glimpses" from Nameless Places (edited by Gerald W. Page, Arkham House, 1975) (the editor explains that the story's original home was to be Disciples !) and a new tale from Robert M. Price featuring a team-up between Robert E. Howard's hard-boiled P.I. Steve Harrison and Lin Carter's Dr. Strange-styled magician, Anton Zarnak -- both Mythos superheroes extraordinaire in their own rights. Surprisingly, such a teaming works well, as evidenced here by "Dope War of the Black Tong." Brian Lumley's "The Fairground Horror" (slightly revised for its appearance here) is a very engaging tale about a man who tries to exploit the Cthulhu Mythos to his own ends. To my mind it is as fresh and relevant today as it was twenty years ago, and proof positive that even in the beginning Lumley knew what he was doing and did it better than most! "The Silence of Erika Zann" by James Wade, however, does seem a bit dated with its "acid rock combos" and "hippie free spirits" -- but despite this, this sequel to HPL's "The Music of Erich Zann" is an intriguing update to the Master's works. Wade really had a lot to say in the Mythos before his untimely death in 1983. Especially worth reading is his story "The Deep Ones" in Arkham House's original edition of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1969). "All-Eye" by Bob Van Laerhoven is a strange piece, sort of a "Wendigo meets Cthulhu" set in the northern wilds of Canada. And considering that the author is a Belgian friend of Disciples contributor Eddy Bertin, and likely has never set foot in the Canadian wilds, it is surprising that this tale is so colorful and atmospheric. Van Laerhoven really makes the woods come alive with menace! "The Tugging" by Ramsey Campbell is one I'm sure you're all familiar with, yet to my mind it is one of his best tales, a very able blending of his earlier rural Lovecraftian-style with his own later urban style -- and his addition to the Mythos of the entity Ghroth is most welcome indeed! "Where Yidhra Walks" by Walter C. DeBill, Jr., is one of the finest Lovecraftian stories by one of the finest Lovecraftian authors EVER . and you should be as excited as I am that Chaosium plans to bring out a collection of his works in the future! Very able to stand alongside Campbell, Lumley, Rainey, Pugmire and the like, DeBill is one author whose work REALLY deserves a collection! The tale here adds some much-needed sex appeal to the Mythos with the very sensuous and alluring (yet horrible!) goddess Yidhra. A.A. Attanasio's "Glimpses" is an amazing work, a successful blending of Mythos horror and the science fictional themes he loves so well! In fact, not being a particular fan of science fiction myself, I'd be hard-pressed to try to describe just what happens in the story. But I think a hard science fiction fan would enjoy it immensely! Price's "Dope War of the Back Tong" I mentioned before, but let me just say that though the tale deals with the Tcho-Tcho cult that worships Lloigor and Zhar from Derleth and Schorer's "Lair of the Star-Spawn," the tale is not without its element of humor. Not that it's a parody or anything, but it does contain some very BAD puns! Eddy C. Bertin's "Darkness, My Name Is" is a piece no Mythos fan should miss! This atmospheric tale attempts to turn the countryside of Germany into something akin to Lovecraft's Arkham, or especially Dunwich, and succeeds admirably! Bertin has written some other very remarkable tales, notably "The Gibbering Walls" in Crypt of Cthulhu #65 (June/July 1989), and "Concerto For a Satin Vampire" in the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association, mailing # 40 (October 1982), and, of course, "Eyurid," with the Dutch artist Tais Teng from his own press Dunwich House in Belgium in 1980, (all of which deserve a wider reprinting) yet to my mind the tale here is his best yet.
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