Lovecraft Mythos Book (New & Classic Collection) - Flame Tree Publishing

Contains new stories specially commissioned for this H.P. collection. The shared universe of Lovecraft is an exciting immersion into the world of the Ancient Ones and Great Old Ones, an ancient race of terrifying beings. In Lovecraft’s vision, we live in a deep but fragile illusion, unable to comprehend ancient entities like Cthulhu, who lies dead but dreams in the sunken city of R'lyeh, waiting to rise and wreak havoc in our realm of existence.

Lovecraft used the myth to create a backdrop for his fiction and challenged many fellow writers to add their own stories. Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner were among the first, but over the years many others, such as Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, and August Derleth, contributed their voices to numerous mythic cycles, developing motifs and new fictional pathways for the city of Arkham and creatures like Azathoth and Nyarlathotep.

The Lovecraft mythos is fertile ground for any writer dealing with supernatural phenomena, horror, fantasy, and science fiction, which is why in this edition we opened our submissions to entirely new stories, many of which are published here for the first time, to further develop the shared universe.

Table of Contents:

Cthulhu-Seltzer by Hal Bodner

Offspring by Evey Brett

Franklin’s Paragraph by Ramsey Campbell

Foxfire Future by Helen E. Davis

Grave Secrets by JG Faherty

Opens a window by Cody Goodfellow

Innsmouth South by Rachael K. Jones

Damages by Scott R. Jones

Black ships seen south of the sky by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Always a castle? by Nancy Kilpatrick

Let It Stand by N.R. Lambert

Break free from captivity – Victor LaValle

Whisper of the stars by Than Niveau

My first disgust by John Possidente

Under any other name by John Llewellyn Probert

The Gentleman from Mexico – Mark Samuels

Usurped by William Browning Spencer

Completely surrounded by water by R.S. Steffoff

Urge a tear for Asenath by Jonathan Thomas

Cloaca Maxima by Donald Tyson

Tracking the black book by Douglas Wynne

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