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A anthology is a type of collection that contains stories written in or related to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of launched by H. P. Lovecraft. Such anthologies have helped to define and popularize the genre.

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Author H. P. Lovecraft and Others

Cover artist

Country

Language English

Genre , Horror short stories

Publisher House

Publication date 1969

Media type Print (Hardback)

Pages vii, 407 pp

ISBN NA

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by and published by in 1969, is considered the first Cthulhu Mythos anthology. It contained two stories by Lovecraft, a number of reprints of pieces written by members of Lovecraft's circle of correspondents, and several new tales written for the collection by a new generation of Cthulhu Mythos writers. It was published in an edition of 4,024 copies. Derleth prefaced the collection with "The Cthulhu Mythos", an outline of his (sometimes controversial) views on the development and content of the Mythos. In this introduction, Derleth prematurely declared the genre to be dead--"for certainly the Mythos as an inspiration for new fiction is hardly likely to afford readers with enough that is new and sufficiently different in execution to create a continuing and growing demand".[1] later wrote that Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos "marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the Mythos for many reasons, and one of the most important was that it introduced a number of new writers in the Mythos."[2]

Contents The contents of the original 1969 edition are: • "The Cthulhu Mythos" by August Derleth • "" by H. P. Lovecraft • "The Return of the Sorcerer" by • "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith • "" by E. Howard • "The " by • "The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long • "The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth Cthulhu Mythos anthology 2

• "Beyond the Threshold" by August Derleth • "The Shambler from the Stars" by • "" by H. P. Lovecraft • "The Shadow from the Steeple" by Robert Bloch • "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" by Robert Bloch • "The Salem Horror" by • "The Haunter of the Graveyard" by J. Vernon Shea* • "Cold Print" by J. * • "The Sister City" by * • "Cement Surroundings" by Brian Lumley* • "" by James Wade* • "The Return of the " by * *First appeared in the collection

Reprints • : Ballantine, 1971 (2 vols.). • : Grafton, 1988. • Sauk City, WI: Arkham House November 1989 (variant contents). This later revised edition, edited and introduced by James Turner, drops the stories by Shea and Wade, and the two by Lumley, and adds the following seven tales: • "The Terror from the Depths" by • "Rising with Surtsey" by Brian Lumley • "My Boat" by Joanna Russ • "Sticks" by • "The Freshman" by Philip Jose Farmer • "Jerusalem's Lot" by • "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone" by Richard A. Lupoff For full details of the revised ed see Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology below.

The Disciples of Cthulhu

The Disciples of Cthulhu

Author edited by Edward P. Berglund

Cover artist Karel Thole

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher DAW Books

Publication date 1976

Media type Print (Paperback)

Pages 288 pp

ISBN NA Cthulhu Mythos anthology 3

The Disciples of Cthulhu was edited by Edward P. Berglund and published by DAW Books in 1976. Berglund later described it as "the first professional, all-original, Cthulhu Mythos anthology".[3] Perhaps responding to the introduction to Derleth's collection, Berglund wrote in his preface: "Whether or not there is a market for the Cthulhu Mythos stories, established and amateur writers will continue to write them for their own and their friends' amusement and enjoyment. It is inevitable that one or more readers of this volume will be influenced into trying his hand at writing within the Cthulhu Mythos genre."

Contents The contents are: • "Editor's Foreword" by Edward P. Berglund • "Introduction" by Robert Bloch • "The Fairground Horror" by Brian Lumley • "The Silence of Erika Zann" by James Wade • "All-Eye" by Bob Van Laerhoven • "The Tugging" by Ramsey Campbell • "Where Yidhra Walks" by Walter C. DeBill, Jr. • "The Feaster from Afar" by • "Zoth-Ommog" by Lin Carter • "Darkness, My Name Is" by Eddy C. Bertin • "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber When the collection was reprinted by Chaosium in 1996, the Carter and Brennan stories were replaced by "Dope War of the Black Tong", a new Robert M. Price pastiche of Carter and Robert E. Howard, and "Glimpses" by A. A. Attanasio, which was supposed to be published in the original Disciples but ended up in the Arkham House anthology Nameless Places instead.

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Author edited by Ramsey Campbell

Cover artist

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Arkham House

Publication date 1980

Media type Print (Hardback)

Pages xi, 257 pp

ISBN 0-87054-085-8

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos was edited by Ramsey Campbell and published by Arkham House in 1980 in an edition of 3,647 copies. In his introduction, Campbell noted that "[i]n recent years the Mythos at times has seemed in danger of becoming conventionalized," despite the fact that "Lovecraft's intention and achievement was precisely to avoid the predictability and resultant lack of terror which beset the conventional macabre fiction of his day." Cthulhu Mythos anthology 4

Therefore, Campbell wrote, "in this anthology I have tended to favor less familiar treatments or uses of the Mythos.... They contain few erudite occultists, decaying towns, or stylistic pastiches.... Indeed, one of our tales hints at the ultimate event of the Mythos without ever referring to the traditional names."[4] One story in is an expansion, by Martin S. Warnes, of Lovecraft's fragment "The Book".

Contents The contents are: • "Introduction" • "Crouch End" by Stephen King • "The Star Pools" by A. A. Attanasio • "The Second Wish" by Brian Lumley • "Dark Awakening" by Frank Belknap Long • "Shaft Number 247" by • "Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein • "The Black Tome of Alsophocus" by H. P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes • "Than Curse the Darkness" by • "The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell • "Notes on Contributors"

Reprints

Arkham House • second printing, 1982 (2,057 copies). • third printing, 1987 (no print numbers given).

Others • London: Grafton, 1988.

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Author H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands

Illustrator Jeffrey K. Potter

Cover artist Jeffrey K. Potter

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Arkham House

Publication date 1990

Media type Print (Hardback)

Pages xiv, 529 pp

ISBN ISBN 0-87054-159-5 Cthulhu Mythos anthology 5

Arkham House released a new edition of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in 1990, edited by James Turner with a substantially different selection of stories, reflecting the editor's disdain for "Mythos pastiches in which eccentric New recluses utter the right incantations in the wrong books and are promptly eaten by a giant frog named Cthulhu." It was released in an edition of 7,015 copies. Turner eliminates some authors from the earlier edition (totalling four stories, those by Wade, Shea and two by Lumley) --while still suggesting that "a few of the earliest pieces in this volume...now seem like pop-cultural kitsch." The added seven stories, writes, are from "the relative handful of successful works that have been influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos...exemplifying the darkly enduring power of H. P. Lovecraft over a disparate group of writers who have made their own inimitable contributions to the Mythos."[5]

Contents The contents are: • "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!", by James Turner • "The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft • "The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith • "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith • "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard • "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long • "The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long • "The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth • "Beyond the Threshold" by August Derleth • "The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch • "The Haunter of the Dark" by H. P. Lovecraft • "The Shadow from the Steeple" by Robert Bloch • "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" by Robert Bloch • "The Salem Horror" by Henry Kuttner • "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber • "Rising with Surtsey" by Brian Lumley • "Cold Print" by Ramsey Campbell • "The Return of the Lloigor" by Colin Wilson • "My Boat" by Joanna Russ • "Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner • "The Freshman" by Philip Jose Farmer • "Jerusalem's Lot" by Stephen King • "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone" by Richard A. Lupoff Cthulhu Mythos anthology 6

Reprints

Arkham House • second printing, 2000 (no print numbers given).

Others • New York: Ballantine/Del Rey, 1998.

Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos

Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos

Author edited by Robert M. Price

Cover artist

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Fedogan & Bremer

Publication date 1992

Media type Print (Hardback)

Pages 327 pp

ISBN ISBN 1-878252-02-X

Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos was edited by Robert M. Price and published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1992. In an introduction, Price provides a "sketch of the Lovecraft Mythos and its evolution into the Cthulhu Mythos"--raising a defense of August Derleth's interpretation of the Mythos along the way. Price writes that his intent in making selections was to assemble "an alternate version" of Derleth's Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, though limited in scope to the writers of the pulp era. He included several pieces long out of print or reprinted only in obscure fanzines, and tried to focus on "stories in which certain important Mythos names or items are either first mentioned or most fully explained by the author who created them".[6]

Contents The contents are: • "Preface", by Robert Bloch • "Introduction", by Robert M. Price • "The Thing on the Roof" by Robert E. Howard • "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" by Robert E. Howard • "The Seven Geases" by Clark Ashton Smith • "Fane of the Black Pharaoh" by Robert Bloch • "The Invaders" by Henry Kuttner • "Bells of Horror" by Henry Kuttner • "The Thing That Walked on the Wind" by August Derleth • "Ithaqua" by August Derleth • "The Lair of the Star-Spawn" by August Derleth & Mark Shorer • "The Lord of Illusion" by E. Hoffmann Price Cthulhu Mythos anthology 7

• "The Warder of Knowledge" by Richard F. Searight • "The Scourge of B'Moth" by Bertram Russell • "The House of the Worm" by Mearle Prout • "Spawn of the Green Abyss" by C. Hall Thompson • "The Guardian of the Book" by Henry Hasse • "The Abyss" by Robert A. W. Lowndes • "Music of the Stars" by Duane W. Rimel • "The Aquarium" by Carl Jacobi • "The Horror Out of Lovecraft" by Donald A. Wolheim • "To Arkham and the Stars" by Fritz Leiber

Reprints • New York: Ballantine/Del Rey, 2002.

Cthulhu's Heirs

Cthulhu's Heirs

Author edited by Thomas M. K. Stratman

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Chaosium

Publication date 1994

Media type Print (Paperback)

ISBN ISBN 1-56882-013-5

Cthulhu's Heirs was edited by Thomas M. K. Stratman and published by Chaosium in 1994. With the exception of contributions by Ramsey Campbell and Hugh B. Cave, the stories included are original to the collection. Stratman describes the tales as "more than 20 writers' visions into the landscape of ."[7]

Contents The contents are: • "Watch the Whiskers Sprout" by D. F. Lewis • "The Watch" by Hugh B. Cave • "The Return of : 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 " by 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 Cthulhu Mythos anthology 8

• "Of & 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 " by Crispin Burnham • " 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 Starry Wisdom

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

Author edited by D. M. Mitchell

Country England

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Creation Books

Publication date 1994

Media type Print (Paperback)

Pages 191

ISBN ISBN 1-871592-32-1

The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft was edited by D. M. Mitchell and published by Creation Books in 1994. Declaring that "Lovecraft has suffered much at the hands of unmindful critics and even more from uninspired and talentless imitators," Mitchell declares that the collection's goal is "to dig deeper, to bypass the superficial and access the subterranean channels of archetype and inspiration with which Lovecraft was connected.... [Lovecraft] crafted morbid and disturbing allegories of social and biological upheaval--cryptically prophetic and spiritually exploratory--this latent content of his work now needs excavating."[8] Some of the stories in the collection—notably those by Burroughs and Ballard—were not inspired by Lovecraft, but were seen by Mitchell as sharing his "visions of cosmic alienation". In those stories that make direct references to the Cthulhu Mythos, they are "used only in passing--in the same informal way in which Lovecraft himself intended."[9]

Contents The contents are: • "Lovecraft in Heaven" by • "Third Eye Butterfly" by James Havoc and Mike Philbin • "A Thousand Young" by Robert M. Price • "The Night Sea-Maid Went Down" by Brian Lumley • "From this Swamp" by Henry Wessels • "Prisoner of the Coral Deep" by J. G. Ballard • "Black Static" by David Conway • "Red Mass" by Dan Kellett Cthulhu Mythos anthology 9

• "Wind Die. You Die. We Die" by William S. Burroughs • "The Call of Cthulhu" by John Coulthart & H. P. Lovecraft • "Potential" by Ramsey Campbell • "Walpurgisnachtmusik" by Simon Whitechapel • "Meltdown" by D. F. Lewis • "Beyond Reflection" by John Beal • "This Exquisite Corpse" by C. G. Brandrick & D. M. Mitchell • "Extracted from the Mouth of the Consumer, Rotting Pig" by Michael Gira • "Hypothetical Materfamilias" by Adele O. Gladwell • "The Sound of a Door Opening" by Don Webb • "The Courtyard" by • "The Dreamers in Darkness" by Peter Smith • "Pills for Miss Betsy" by Rick Grimes • "23 Nails" by Stephen Sennitt • "Ward 23" by D. M. Mitchell

Cthulhu 2000

Cthulhu 2000

Author edited by Jim Turner

Illustrator Bob Eggleton

Cover artist Bob Eggleton

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Arkham House

Publication date 1995

Media type Print (Hardback)

Pages xvi, 413 pp

ISBN ISBN 0-87054-169-2

Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology was edited by Jim Turner and published by Arkham House in 1995 in an edition of 4,927 copies. As in his earlier collection, Turner criticizes the "latter-day Mythos pastiche" as simply "a banal modern horror story, preceded by the inevitable epigraph and indiscriminately interspersed with sesquipedalian deities, ichor-oozing tentacles, sundry eldritch abominations, and then the whole sorry mess rounded off with a cachinnating chorus of "Iä! Iä!"-chanting frogs." He declares that "the works collected in the present volume are not great Lovecraft stories; they rather are great stories in some way inspired by Lovecraft."[10] Cthulhu Mythos anthology 10

Contents The contents are: • "Cthulhu 2000", by Jim Turner • "The Barrens" by F. Paul Wilson • "Pickman's Modem" by Lawrence Watt-Evans • "Shaft Number 247" by Basil Copper • "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood" by Poppy Z. Brite • "The Adder" by • "Fat Face" by • "The Big Fish" by • "'I Had Vacantly Crumpled It Into My Pocket...But by God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!'" by Joanna Russ • "H.P.L." by Gahan Wilson • "The Unthinkable" by • "Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein • "Love's Eldritch Ichor" by Esther M. Friesner • "The Last Feast of Harlequin" by • "The Shadow on the Doorstep" by James P. Blaylock • "Lord of the Land" by • "The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell • "On the Slab" by • "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" by

Reprints • New York: Ballantine/Del Rey, 1999.

The New Lovecraft Circle

The New Lovecraft Circle

Author edited by Robert M. Price

Cover artist Gahan Wilson

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Fedogan & Bremer

Publication date 1996

Media type Print (Hardback)

Pages 371 pp

ISBN ISBN 1-878252-16-X

The New Lovecraft Circle was edited by Robert M. Price and published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1996 in an edition of 2,000 copies. Presenting the book as a sequel to Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, which focused on the circle of writers around Lovecraft that were collected in the first half of Derleth's Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Price declares Cthulhu Mythos anthology 11

that "the present collection means to ape the second half, to commemorate that dawn of a new era of Mythos fiction." He describes the contents as "little known and seldom seen stories by most of the seven members of the New Lovecraft Circle numbered by Lin Carter and by other, more recent adepts as well, for the tradition grows. The cult will not be stamped out."[11]

Contents The contents are: • "Preface", by Ramsey Campbell • "Introduction", by Robert M. Price • "The Plain of Sound" by Ramsey Campbell • "The Stone on the Island" by Ramsey Campbell • "The Statement of One John Gibson" by Brian Lumley • "Demoniacal" by David Sutton • "The Kiss of Bugg-Shash" by Brian Lumley • "The Slitherer from the Slime" by H. P. Lowcraft • "The Doom of Yakthoob" by Lin Carter • "The Fishers from Outside" by Lin Carter • "The Keeper of the Flame" by • "Dead Giveaway" by J. Vernon Shea • "Those Who Wait" by James Wade • "The Keeper of Dark Point" by John Glasby • "The Black Mirror" by John Glasby • "I've Come to Talk with You Again" by Karl Edward Wagner • "The Howler in the Dark" by Richard L. Tierney • "The Horror on the Beach" by Alan Dean Foster • "The Whisperers" by Richard Lupoff • "Lights! Camera! Shub-Niggurath!" by Richard Lupoff • "Saucers from Yaddith" by Robert M. Price • "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti • "The Madness out of Space" by Peter H. Cannon • "Aliah Warden" by Roger Johnson • "The Last Supper" by Donald R. Burleson • "The Church at Garlock's Bend" by David Kaufman • "The Spheres Beyond Sound (Threnody)" by Stephen Mark Rainey

Reprints • New York: Ballantine/Del Rey, 2004.

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Song of Cthulhu

Author edited by Stephen Mark Rainey

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Chaosium

Publication date July 2001

Media type Print (Paperback)

Pages 200

ISBN 978-1-56882-117-7

Song of Cthulhu was published by Chaosium in July 2001, edited by Stephen Mark Rainey. This themed anthology featured stories about using music to interact with various of the entities from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, as typified in Lovecraft's story, "," which is included in the anthology. Cover art by Harry Fassl.

Contents The contents are: • "The Music of Erich Zann" by H. P. Lovecraft • "The Dark Beauty of Unheard Horrors" by Thomas Ligotti • "In the Rue d'Auseil" by Fred Chappell • "The Plain of Sound" by Ramsey Campbell • "The Last Show at Verdi's Supper Club" by Stephen Mark Rainey • "Water Music for the Tillers of Soil" by Tom Piccirilli • "Shallow Fathoms" by M. Christian • "How Rocked Our World" by Gregory Nicoll • "Listen" by James Robert Smith • "Mud" by Brian McNaughton • "Paedomorphosis" by Caitlin R. Kiernan • "Intruders" by Hugh B. Cave • "Chant" by • "Ghoul's Tale" by Robert M. Price • "The Next Big Thing" by Rob Suggs • "The Flautists" by Edward P. Berglund • "Fall From Grace" by D. F. Lewis • "Drums" by William R. Trotter • "The Enchanting of Lila Woods" by E. A. Lustig • "Yog-Sothoth, Superstar" by Thomas F. Monteleone Cthulhu Mythos anthology 13

The Children of Cthulhu

The Children of Cthulhu

Author edited by and Benjamin Adams

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher

Publication date 2002

Media type Print (Paperback)

ISBN ISBN 0-345-44926-6

The Children of Cthulhu, published by Ballantine Books in 2002, was edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams. In the introduction, the editors wrote: For this collection, we asked authors to break past the '[if it ain't broke,] don't fix it' mentality and bring Lovecraft's original concepts kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century.... The stories in this collection range from the historical to the futuristic. What they share is each writer's reaction to the vision of H. P. Lovecraft and an affinity for his core concepts.:[12] All the stories are original to the volume with the exception of Poppy Z. Brite's "Are You Loathsome Tonight?" which originally appeared in her 1998 collection of the same name.

Contents The contents are: • "Details" by China Miéville • "Visitation" by James Robert Smith • "The Invisible Empire" by James Van Pelt • "A Victorian Pot Dresser" by L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims • "" by • "The Stuff of the Stars, Leaking" by Tim Lebbon • "Sour Places" by Mark Chadbourn • "Meet Me on the Other Side" by Yvonne Navarro • "That's the Story of My Life" by John Pelan & Benjamin Adams • "Long Meg and Her Daughters" by • "A Fatal Exception Has Occurred At..." by Alan Dean Foster • "Dark of the Moon" by James S. Dorr • "Red Clay" by J. • "Principles and Parameters" by Meredith L. Patterson • "Are You Loathsome Tonight?" by Poppy Z. Brite • "The Serenade of Starlight" by W. H. Pugmire, Esq. • "Outside" by • "Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea" by Caitlín R. Kiernan • "The Spectacle of a Man" by Weston Ochse • "The Firebrand Symphony" by Brian Hodge • "Teeth" by Matt Cardin Cthulhu Mythos anthology 14

Cthulhu Unbound

Cthulhu Unbound

Author edited by John Sunseri and Thom Brannan

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Permuted Press

Publication date 2009

Media type Print (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-934861-13-4

Followed by Cthulhu Unbound 2

Cthulhu Unbound was published by Permuted Press on March 30 2009. It was edited by John Sunseri and Thom Brannan. The volume is a “cross-genre” anthology, telling Lovecraft-inspired comedies, , hardboiled noir, etc. Cover art by Cyril Van Der Haegen.

Contents • "Noir-lathotep" by Linda Donahue • "The Invasion Out of Time" by Trent Roman • "James and the Dark Grimoire" by Kevin Lauderdale • "Hellstone and Brimfire" by Doug Goodman • "Star Crossed" by Bennet Reilly • "The Covenant" by Kim Paffenroth • "The Hindenburg Manifesto" by Lee Clark Zumpe • "In Our Darkest Hour" by Steven Graham • "Blood Bags and Tentacles" by DL Snell • "Bubba Cthulhu's Last Stand" by Lisa Hilton • "Turf" by Richard D. Moore • "The Menagerie" by Ben Thomas • "The Patriot" by John Goodrich • "The Shadow over Las Vegas" by John Claude Smith • "Locked Room" by CJ Henderson

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Cthulhu Unbound 2

Author edited by John Sunseri and Thom Brannan

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Permuted Press

Publication date July 31, 2009

Media type Print (Paperback)

Pages 276

ISBN 978-1-934861-14-1

Preceded by Cthulhu Unbound

Followed by Cthulhu Unbound 3

Cthulhu Unbound 2 was published by Permuted Press on July 31, 2009. It was edited by John Sunseri and Thom Brannan. The volume is a “cross-genre” anthology, telling Lovecraft-inspired stories that are comedies, space operas, hardboiled noir, etc. Cover art by Michael Dashow.

Contents The contents are: • "Passing Down" by Inez Schaechterle • "The Tenants of Ladywell Manor" by Willie Meikle • "The Hunters Within the Corners" by Douglas P. Wojtowicz • "Surely You Joust" by Patrick Thomas • "References in Cthonic, Eldritch, Roiling Creations are Recondite" by Warren Tusk • "New Fish" by Kiwi Courters • "Tomb on a Dead Moon" by Tim Curran • "The Long, Deep Dream" by Peter Clines • "Santiago Contra el Culto de Cthulhu" by Mark Zirbel • "Stomach Acid" by David Conyers and Brian M. Sammons • "Sleeping Monster Futures" by Brandon Alspaugh • "Nemo at R'lyeh" by Joshua Reynolds • "What's a Few Tentacles Among Friends?" by Sheila Crosby • "An Incident Occurring in the Huachuca Mountains, West of Tombstone" by Gary Vehar • "Abomination With Rice" by Rhys Hughes

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Cthulhu Unbound 3

Author edited by Brian M. Sammons and David Conyers

Country United States

Language English

Genre , Horror short stories

Publisher Permuted Press

Publication date October 9, 2012

Media type E-book and Print (Paperback)

Pages 277

Preceded by Cthulhu Unbound 2

Cthulhu Unbound 3 was published by Permuted Press on October 9, 2012. It was edited by Brian M. Sammons and David Conyers. The volume is a “cross-genre” anthology of four Cthulhu Mythos .

Contents The contents are: • "Unseen Empire" by Cody Goodfellow • "MirrorrorriM" by D.L. Snell • "Nemesis Theory" by Tim Curran • "The R’lyeh Singularity" by David Conyers and Brian M. Sammons

Cthulhu's Reign

Cthulhu's Reign

Author edited by Darrell Schweitzer

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher DAW

Publication date April, 2010

Media type Print (Paperback)

Pages 309

ISBN 978-0-7564-0616-5

Cthulhu's Reign was published by DAW in April, 2010. It was edited by Darrell Schweitzer. The volume's twist is that the dreaded revival of the fearsome "Great Old Ones" who once ruled the Earth is not a future possibility but an event that has actually come to pass. Cthulhu Mythos anthology 17

Contents The contents are: • "Introduction" by Darrell Schweitzer • "The Walker in the Cemetery" by Ian Watson • "Sanctuary" by Don Webb • "Her Acres of Pastoral Playground" by • "Spherical Trigonometry" by Ken Asamatsu • "What Brings the Void" by • "The New Pauline Corpus" by Matt Cardin • "Ghost Dancing" by Darrell Schweitzer • "This is How the World Ends" by John R. Fultz • "The Shallows" by • "Such Bright and Risen Madness in Our Names" by Jay Lake • "The Seals of New R'lyeh" by • "The Holocaust of Ecstasy" by Brian Stableford • "Vastation" by • "Nothing Personal" by Richard A. Lupoff • "Remnants" by Fred Chappell

The Book of Cthulhu

The Book of Cthulhu

Author edited by Ross E. Lockhart

Country United States

Language English

Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories

Publisher Night Shade Books

Publication date September, 2011

Media type Print (Paperback)

Pages 540

ISBN 978-1-59780-232-1

The Book of Cthulhu was published by Night Shade Books in September, 2011. It was edited by Ross E. Lockhart. Two stories, Laird Barron's "The Men from Porlock," and John Hornor Jacobs's "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife," are original to the volume. Cthulhu Mythos anthology 18

Contents The contents are: • "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 " by W. H. Pugmire • "The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins" by Molly Tanzer • "Fat Face" by Michael Shea • " in Bloom" by • "Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein • "Than Curse the Darkness" by David Drake • "Jerobam Henley's Debt" by Charles R. Saunders • "Nethescurial" by Thomas Ligotti • "Calimari Curls" by Kage Baker • "Jihad over " 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 • "The Shallows" by John Langan • "The Men from Porlock" by Laird Barron

Notes [1] August Derleth, "The Cthulhu Mythos", Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. [2] Lin Carter, Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, p. 175. [3] Edward P. Berglund, "Preface to the Revised Edition", The Disciples of Cthulhu. [4] Ramsey Campbell, "Introduction", New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. [5] James Turner, "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!" Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology. [6] Robert M. Price, "Introduction", Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos. [7] Thomas M. K. Stratman, "The Nameless Manuscript", Cthulhu's Heirs, p. 8. [8] D. M. Mitchell, "Foreword", The Starry Wisdom, p. 9. [9] Mitchell, pp. 9-10. [10] Jim Turner, "Cthulhu 2000", Cthulhu 2000, p. xv. [11] Robert M. Price, "Introduction", The New Lovecraft Circle, p. xvii. [12] John Pelan and Benjamin Adams, "The Call of Lovecraft, The Children of Cthulhu, pp. ix-x. Cthulhu Mythos anthology 19

References • Jaffery, Sheldon (1987). Future and Fantastic Worlds: A Bibliographic Retrospective of DAW Books (1972-1987). Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 74. ISBN 1-55742-002-5. • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 91–92, 123–124. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 45, 53, 57–58, 60, 252, 254–255. • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 104–105, 146, 161, 166. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 103–104, 126, 136–137, 139. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

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• "The Disciples of Cthulhu" (http:/ / www. epberglund. com/ RGttCM/ tdoc. htm), from E. P. Berglund's website Article Sources and Contributors 20 Article Sources and Contributors

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