The Book of Cthulhu

"The Cthulhu Mythos" is one of the 20th century's most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), "The Cthulhu Mythos" story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of the 21st century have planted their seeds in this fertile soil. "The Book of Cthulhu" harvests the weirdest and most corpulent crop of these modern mythos tales. From weird fiction masters to enigmatic rising stars, "The Book of Cthulhu" demonstrates how Mythos fiction has been a major cultural meme throughout the 20th century, and how this type of story is still salient, and terribly powerful today. It includes table of contents such as: Caitlin R. Kiernan - Andromeda among the Stones; Ramsey Campbell - The Tugging; Charles Stross - A Colder War; Bruce Sterling - The Unthinkable; Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Flash Frame; W. H. Pugmire - Some Buried Memory; Molly Tanzer - The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins; Michael Shea - Fat Face; Elizabeth Bear - Shoggoths in Bloom; T. E. D. Klien - Black Man With A Horn; David Drake - Than Curse the Darkness; Charles Saunders - Jeroboam Henley's Debt; Thomas Ligotti - Nethescurial; Kage Baker - Calamari Curls; Edward Morris - Jihad over Innsmouth; and, Cherie Priest - Bad Sushi. It also includes John Hornor Jacobs - The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife; Brian McNaughton - The Doom that Came to Innsmouth; Ann K. Schwader - Lost Stars; Steve Duffy - The Oram County Whoosit; Joe R. Lansdale - The Crawling Sky; Brian Lumley - The Fairground Horror; Tim Pratt - Cinderlands; Gene Wolfe - Lord of the Land; Joseph Pulver, Sr. - To Live and Die in Arkham; John Langan - The Shallows; and, Laird Barron - The Men from Porlock.

ISBN 1597802328   Pages 500 ISBN13 9781597802321 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 908 Publisher Night Shade Books   Published in Newberg Imprint Night Shade Books   Height (mm) 229 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 152 Publication date 30 Aug 2011   Spine width (mm) 50 DEWEY 823.0876608   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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