LOVECRAFT'S THE HOUND AND OTHER STORIES!January 25, 1931: an expedition team arrives at a campsite in Antarctica...to find its crew of men and sled dogs strewn and dead. Some are hideously mangled, as if in rage--some have been dissected in a curious and cold-blooded manner. Some are missing. But a still more horrific sight is the star-shaped mound of snow nearby...for under its five points is a grave--and what lies beneath is not human!At the Mountains of Madness is a journey into the core of Lovecraft's mythos--the deep caverns and even deeper time of the inhospitable continent where the secret history of our planet is preserved--amidst the ruins of its first civilization, built by the alien Elder Things with the help of their bioengineered monstrosities, the shoggoths. Since it was first published in Astounding Stories during the classic pulp era, At the Mountains of Madness has influenced both horror and science fiction worldwide!

    Ivankovic, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (for beginning readers) from Chaosium.com.108 pages, hardback - and in full color!

    When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned Atticus’s great grandmother—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction.A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of one black family, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

    This story was written to raise funds for Cat Care Initiative, a non-profit based in Campbellford, Ontario. They work tirelessly to find loving forever homes for deserving cats or kittens, and to spay/neuter and provide housing for feral colonies

    

    

    Wilderbeast, Visiting Professor of Preternatural Studies Miskatonic UniversityWeird shapes in the park? Odd rumbling noises in the basement? A lurking dread in the kitchen?Bad dreams involving strange adventures and bizarre creatures? Identifying the lurking horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos is never an easy task, so researchers need all the help they can get—don’t leave home without the Field Guide!An essential spotter’s guide for the budding and experienced preternaturalist.• Accurate and complete• 53 Lovecraftian creatures categorized and detailed• Full color illustrations• Size comparison charts• Habitat, distribution, and life cycle notes• How to distinguish similar-seeming entities• Observer warnings• Bibliography and recommended reading listIllustrations and descriptions from the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle based uponthe creations of H.P. Lovecraft.

    Included are: Introduction (The Second Cthulhu Mythos Megapack) • essay by Shawn Garrett Dreams of Yith • (1934) • poem by Duane W. Rimel and H. P. Lovecraft Out of the Aeons • short fiction by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft (variant of Out of the Eons 1935) Fishhead • (1913) • short story by Irvin S. Cobb When Chaugnar Wakes • (1932) • poem by Frank Belknap Long The Mound • (1940) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop The Thing on the Roof • (1932) • short story by Robert E. Howard The Isle of Dark Magic • (1934) • novelette by Hugh B. Cave The Secret in the Tomb • (1935) • short story by Robert Bloch The Horror from the Hills • (1931) • novella by Frank Belknap Long The Terrible Parchment • (1937) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman The Shambler from the Stars • (1935) • short story by Robert Bloch The Diary of Alonzo Typer • (1938) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft and William Lumley Hydra• (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner The Suicide in the Study • (1935) • short story by Robert Bloch Marmok • (1940) • poem by Emil Petaja The Intruder • (1940) • short story by Emil Petaja Out of the Jar • (1941) • short story by Charles R. Tanner [as by Charles A. Tanner] Skydrift • (1949) • short story by Emil Petaja Anonymous • (1951) • short story by George T. Wetzel Why Abdul Alhazred Went Mad • (1950) • short story by D. R. Smith (variant of Why Abdul Al Hazred Went Mad) Caer Sidhi • (1954) • short story by George T. Wetzel Dead of Night • (1988) • short story by Lin Carter Death of a Damned Good Man • (1991) • short story by Avram Davidson Medusa's Coil • short fiction by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop] Perchance to Dream • (1988) • short story by Lin Carter The Winfield Heritence • short fiction by Lin Carter (variant of The Winfield Heritance 1981) The Challenge from Beyond • (1935) • short story by C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long The Last Horror Out of Arkham • (1977) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

    This volume gathers the many provocative tales he has written over the past decade or more, including several novellas that lavishly expand upon core Lovecraftian themes and motifs. Chief among these, perhaps, is "In the Shadow of Swords," strikingly set in Iraq, where American soldiers during the Iraq War encounter entities far more baleful than the terrorists of the Taliban. A similar setting is used in "Archons," which features a denouement both horrific and poignant.Other stories play imaginative riffs on other Lovecraftian ideas. "The Anatomy Lesson," set in the 19th century, is an ingenious take-off of "Pickman's Model." "To Skin a Corpse" transmutes the central idea of "Herbert West-Reanimator" into a gritty 1930s hard-boiled idiom. The key Lovecraftian notion of dreams is the basis of the pensive story "Broken Sleep." And a spectacular and previously unpublished story, "Swinging," employs "The Shadow out of Time" as the springboard for an Goodfellow is gifted with a prose style of exceptional lyricism and evocativeness, and his narratives are infused with all the compelling readability and cumulative terror that distinguish Lovecraft's own. Vibrantly contemporary in setting and expression, they nonetheless constitute a fitting homage of the dreamer from Providence.

    Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the moldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meager iron bed. His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he had long ago stopped the cheap mantel clock whose ticking had come to seem like a thunder of artillery. At night the subtle stirring of the black city outside, the sinister scurrying of rats in the wormy partitions, and the creaking of hidden timbers in the centuried house, were enough to give him a sense of strident pandemonium. The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound—and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

    When his history teacher took the class on a field trip to France it promised to be an adventure, not the first of a series of glimpses of what lay in wait for the world. Soon Dominic would learn that a neighbour was involved in practices far older and darker than spiritualism, and stumble on a secret journal that hinted at the occult nature of the universe. How could he and his friends Roberta and Jim stop what was growing under a church in the midst of the results of the blitz? Dominic used to write tales of their exploits, but what they face now could reduce any adult to less than a child...Ramsey Campbell recently returned to the Brichester Mythos for his novella The Last Revelation of Gla’aki. His new trilogy The Three Births of Daoloth further develops the cosmic horrors he invented in his first published book, The Inhabitant of the Lake. The Searching Dead is the first volume, to be followed by Born to the Dark.

    This collection includes many of his published stories (under the pseudonym, T. T. Zuma), as well as the novellette, The Strange Saga of Mattie Dyer, published here for the first time. The thirteen tales in The Seeds of Nightmares run the gamut of genres from terrifying horror, atmospheric noir, to the blackest (and bloody) dark humor. From the introduction by acclaimed author, John McIlveen (Hannahwhere, Inflictions): In THE SEEDS OF NIGHTMARES, Tony offers us a smorgasbord – a feast of emotions and genres that cover the spectrum. Take his opening offering for example, the nasty little novelette The Strange Saga of Mattie Dyer, a darkly humorous, Lovecraftian, western, tale of vengeance (yes, you read that right). Wrought with unsavory and despicable characters—a thwarted woman, a vile creature, redneck gold-diggers, and Indians—it’s a virtual Pandora’s Box and a hell of a first run…. There will be twists, bumps, a little blood, and possibly a few tears, but you’re tough…you can take it. So have a seat, strap in, and enjoy the ride!Stories in this collection include:The Strange Saga of Mattie DyerThe Old ManThe Burial BoardSomething NewStardustThe Soldier’s WifeTsunamiThe Black DressChiyoung and Dongsun’s SongHusband of KellieAn Alabama ChristmasThe PawnshopThe Visitors

    A collection of one novella and two short stories.The Land Lord (novella) The Wrath of Concrete and Steel (story) The Wounded Table (story)

    Seers for time immemorial, they are keepers of primeval knowledge.They are wise in the ways of the Old Religion. And they are destroyers of men.Do the women of the Schermerhorn clan drive the men they encounter to their destruction? Or are their actions governed by specters on the periphery of human consciousness?The Schermerhorn women will soon learn what dwells in the oldest books and what lurks in the flickering shadows beyond the candlelight.

    This collection includes: The Amulet It was supposed to be an easy case. Fast money, and a way to kill some time-something Derek Adams, a down-on-his-luck Glasgow private investigator, has way too much of. Recover a stolen family heirloom, and try to keep the relationship with his very beautiful-and very married-client, strictly professional. Easy. But the Johnson Amulet is no mere trinket...and Derek isn't the only person trying to find the priceless relic. Before long he's up to his armpits in bodies, femme fatales... and tentacles. The stars have aligned... An ancient evil has awakened.To save the day, Derek must take some dark pathways, and not everyone is going to make it back out into the light. The Sirens Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams can't seem to get away from the otherworldly, especially not when it seems to be the only paying gig in town. So when an old widow offers him two grand to find her son-who isn't exactly missing...just not himself-it's not long before things start to get weird, and a road trip to the rural village of Skye turns into a detour to the twilight. Before long, Derek is on a remote island, hip-deep in mermaids, stalked by shape-shifters, and tangled in the nets of a diabolical fisher cult intent on waking an ancient god and unleashing the apocalypse. In other words, it's business as usual. The Skin Game Things are finally looking up for Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams. The agency is flush with cash and finally getting some respect, and the nightmares? Well, there's booze for that. But the dark side isn't finished with Derek. What starts off as a simple inquiry into the dealings of a shady bookie quickly descends into a battle with the shadowy unknown. Before he knows it, Derek is on the run, framed for an impossible murder. His only leverage is a strange skin belt that seems to have a life of its own, but hanging onto it might cost Derek more than just his life. This collection also includes three bonus Midnight Eye stories: The Forth Protocol, A Slim Chance, and One, Two Go! Praise for the Midnight Eye Files "Meikle’s writing makes you feel like you’re there, in the rain with Derek Adams, searching seedy pawn shops and bars for the answers. The atmosphere is terrific, and the author knows that sometimes less is more." - The Lovecraft ezine "I encourage you to pour yourself a couple of fingers of whisky and visit Meikle’s and Derek’s Glasgow some evening as the shadows grow long." - New Pulp "The writing itself is crisp, filled with good description and strong dialogue. The Scottish setting, while not prominent, grounds the reader in a sense of place. The characters, while themselves variations on noir tropes, are beleivable, and more importantly, likable. All of this, taken together, makes for a smooth, enjoyable read." - Rich Ristow, Strange Latitudes "A loving romp in and out of both the Lovecraft Mythos and the noir detective novel.". - Bill Gagliani, Chizine

    The Flood has brought Albion to her knees and now the Devils, a race of malevolent sea creatures, haunt her coasts as the survivors retreat inland, struggling for their very existence. Mankind learns to fear the sea and avoid the water. When a mysterious island surfaces off the coast of Wales, a small team of British militia under the command of the war-weary veteran, Sergeant Emma Stokes, is dispatched to investigate this new threat. But a chance meeting with the mysterious Major Seraph takes them on a dangerous odyssey through this drowned world, to the hidden fortress-city of Gwaelod, which seems to offer new hope in the battle against the creatures. Yet as humanity clutches on by its fingertips, who are the real enemies in this deadly flooded world?

    Sammons, Scott Dorward, Simon Brake, Oscar Rios,and Jeff Moeller. Art by Davide Como and Stephanie McAlea.Taking its inspirational cues from Delta Green, Fargo, Blood Simple, and True Detective, the book takes a mature look at the horror of human nature and its ability to be just as disturbing as anything from the Mythos.The scenarios deal with unavoidable fates, dark secrets, and seriously bad choices made by the antagonists. As so often is the case, there are no winners when fate has trapped you in a dice game for doom or destiny. As such, please be aware that some of themes are quite mature and are suitable for adult gamers only.

    P. Lovecraft coined the term ‘weird fiction’ in the 1920s. Even today, in our rational world of wonder, his legacy of cosmic horror slumbers on. Deep in the recesses of our unconscious minds, we suspect it to be the truth – that we begin to glance the shape of true reality, and it is not to our liking. Not at all.Modern science, with its experts and specialities, is a fragmentary thing. In this, it reflects the human mind. We keep our thoughts in boxes, broken into digestible shards. It is safer. Cosmic horror warns us that what we fondly imagine to be reality is just a thin skin of light and substance over endless gulfs of insanity. Gather too much knowledge, make the wrong connections, and the truth can no longer be denied.The amazing tales lovingly collected in Cthulhu Lies Dreaming are fragments of that truth. Treat them with the caution that they deserve. Each will offer you glimpses behind the skin of the world, leading you closer and closer to the edge of the abyss. Knowledge may bring wisdom, but it also offers far darker gifts to the curious.The truth is indeed out there – and it hungers.

    Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents this Lovecraftian story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies. It's like a movie you can enjoy with your eyes closed. Inspector Legrasse, a hero of HPL's story, The Call of Cthulhu, here embarks on a new case leading him once again into the dark bayou country of Louisiana. Will the mystery pit him against crazed cultists, the abominations they worship, or something even more evil and insidious?

    A scientist peers into another dimension and finds something peering back. A mentally ill woman battles a nameless entity that has drained the emotions from the human race. An evil 17th century wizard grows like a fungus on a living scholar. A zone of blackness old as the Big Bang threatens to devour the Earth. The horrible, winged servitors of an ancient Egyptian god rise from the tomb to seek vengeance. A hideous, undimensioned horror hides in a ruined church...Here there be monsters.Table Of ContentsThe SlitheringThe Shadow Of The HaunterNoctulosSix Feet Of Moldering EarthThe Procyon ProjectThe Pestilence That Walketh In DarknessEldritch-FellasSeal Of KharnabisThe Naming Of WitchesThe Eyes Of Howard CurlixThe Blowfly ManifestoThe Wreck Of The GhostThe Thing With A Thousand LegsNemesis Theory

    Now, on his deathbed, the last of the students enlists the aid of three newcomers to banish the thing they summoned. Hampered by the old man's greedy son, the wizened director of the university library, and a private investigator with a troubled past, can Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov, Doctor Harry Lamb, and Father Sean O'Malley gather the knowledge and resources needed to defeat the entity? The Old Man's Request is a pulp adventure set in the 1920s, and the first part of the Utgarda Trilogy.

    Comes with 6" x 9" print and 3" x 4" sticker of cover art. Limited to 150 copies.

    Tanya barges in. As Gabe recalls the terrifying circumstances of the botched operation in Cairo, he and Jordan seek answers in Prague's ancient Jewish Cemetery. Tanya, disturbed by Gabe's accusations about Ice, looks for answers of her own…and finds more than she bargained for. Meanwhile Sasha makes an unexpected move in his real-life game of chess. This episode is brought to you by Ian Tregillis, who reminds you to be careful where you stick your nose.“The Golem” continues the 13-part serial, The Witch Who Came In From The Cold , presented by Serial Box. This espionage fantasy is brought to you by Lindsay Smith, Max Gladstone, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis, and Michael Swanwick.Join the intrigue and mind your secrets, week after week, on Serial Box.com.And don’t forget to share the love! If you’re enjoying The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, help us get the word out by liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter and telling your friends about us! We’d also love to hear what you think so please give us a review! “The Witch Who Came in from the Cold is a chilly evocation of a different kind of Cold War.” – Charles Stross, author of the Laundry Files series“Take a double shot of Le Carré, a dash of Deighton, a twist of Quiller, a splash of Al Stewart’s “The Year of the Cat,” throw in a jigger full of elemental magic, mix well … and voilà! The Witch Who Came In From The Cold.” – Victor Milan, author of The Dinosaur Lords“The occult love child of John le Carre and The Sandbaggers.”– Marie Brennan, author of The Memoirs of Lady Trent Location: Prague. Time: 1970. Two things this city was lousy with: spies and witches.  "As soon as I saw that, I was instantly hooked, and the pilot jacked the intrigue to the max. Two female Soviet spy witches, an American spy with something weird drilling magical holes in his head, and a world of secrets within secrets in a locale where old-world myth and the Cold War face off, pedal to the metal . . . it’s awesome. Or as we said in 1970, Far out.”– Sherwood Smith, author of Crown Duel

    P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe." Ghosts, murderers, monsters, and more lurk within the pages of It Came from Anomaly Flats!"Scary as hell!""Creepy and brilliant.""A true resurrection of classic American horror writing!""Another triumph!"The oddest little town in the Midwest has a thousand demented stories to tell...some of them are horrifying enough to send shivers down the strongest of spines. There’s the tale of a man whose utter fear of germs sends him plummeting to the depths of depravity, and the victims he takes with him; the story of a couple escaping Missouri to fulfill their California dreams who take an innocent detour and find themselves trapped in the most unexpected of nightmares instead; the legend of a demonic creature who thrives on human flesh, which may be more reality than fiction. In this first collected volume of chill-inducing stories from everyone’s favorite transdimensional town, you’ll find reason enough to question your own sanity, even as you try to reassure yourself that things like this only happen in stories.Don’t they? Welcome to Anomaly Flats.How loud can you scream?

    T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H. P. Lovecraft's stories for Arkham House. Basing his work on consultation of manuscripts, early publications, and other sources, Joshi corrected thousands of errors in the existing texts of Lovecraft's fiction, allowing readers to appreciate the stories as Lovecraft originally wrote them. In the thirty years that have followed, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft's stories, and this comprehensive new edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication. Along the way, Joshi has made small but significant revisions to his earlier corrected texts. He has determined, for example, that Lovecraft slightly revised some stories when a reprint of them was scheduled in Weird Tales, and he has altered some readings in light of a better understanding of Lovecraft's customary linguistic usages. The result is the definitive text of Lovecraft's fiction an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it and should endure as the standard text of Lovecraft's stories for many years. In this final volume, the tales of Lovecraft's final years are presented. The Antarctic novella At the Mountains of Madness is perhaps Lovecraft s most finished work, a superb fusion of weirdness and science fiction that he referred to as 'cosmicism.' 'The Shadow over Innsmouth' is a chilling evocation of the terrors inherent in a lonely New England backwater, while 'The Thing on the Doorstep' and 'The Haunter of the Dark' feature physical horrors with cosmic implications. 'The Shadow out of Time' is the culmination of Lovecraft's portrayal of the vast vistas of space and time his signature contribution to literature.

    Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghost-written material and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)Highlights of this volume include:• The Color out of Space• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward• The Dunwitch Horror• The Whisperer in Darkness• At the Mountains of Madness• The Shadow over Innsmouth• The Dreams in the Witch House• The Thing on the Doorstep• The Shadow out of Time• The Haunter of the Dark

    Lovecraft unearthed from archaic texts and turned into icons of modern fantasy fiction. Then a chance discovery—a lost letter written by Lovecraft to fellow Weird Tales author Robert Blake—offers a glimpse into the frightful reality behind the legends, and sends Owen on a desperate quest for answers that shatters his familiar world forever. As he flees across the witch-haunted Massachusetts landscape toward the mysterious seaside town of Innsmouth, Owen finds himself caught up in a secret war between the servants of the Great Old Ones and their ancient enemies, a war in which yesterday’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe and nothing is as it seems. The history of the world is not what he has been taught—and the tentacles reaching out for him from the shadows of a forbidden past may hold not only his one chance of escape from the terrifying forces closing around him, but the last hope of life on Earth...

    government’s 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia, Delta Green’s leaders made a secret pact: to continue their work without authority, without support, and without fear. Delta Green agents slip through the system, manipulating the federal bureaucracy while pushing the darkness back for another day—but often at a shattering personal cost.In Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, you are one of those agents. You’re the one they call when unnatural horrors seep into the world. You fight to keep cosmic evil from claiming human lives and sanity. You conspire to cover it all up so no one else must see what you’ve seen—or learn the terrible truths you’ve discovered.The quickstart rulebook of DELTA GREEN: NEED TO KNOW includes everything you need to play Delta Green.Complete rules for conducting investigations, overcoming crises, fighting for your life, and watching your sanity slip away.Complete rules for character creation.Six characters, ready to play.A Delta Green operation, “Last Things Last,” ready for the Handler (the game moderator) to introduce your team to Delta Green tonight.The physical edition of Delta Green: Need to Know also comes with a sturdy, four-panel screen loaded with data to help the Handler run a fast-paced, suspenseful game—and sinister wraparound art to keep the players terrified.This is only the beginning. Deeper terrors can be found in Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game and its sourcebooks, available from Arc Dream Publishing.Short description of "Last Things Last" for convention games: A long-retired agent died four days ago. Delta Green has tasked your team to make sure he didn't leave any deadly secrets behind.

    In the title story, "The Blasphemy In The Canopic Jar," a collector of antiquities encounters a ghastly, deformed monstrosity spawned in the days of ancient Egypt. Three more adventures tell of worshippers of Nyarlathotep and their secret activities in the modern world. The collection includes a tale of the insect-god Ghattambah, set in the toxic ruins of the distant future, as well as two stories of "The King In Yellow," a forbidden book that offers only madness and death to those who read it. Forbidden worlds of the bizarre await you in the Blasphemy in the Canopic Jar.

    A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark fantasy

    Working together to recover their missing time, they soon learn that their amnesia is but a symptom of a much greater cosmic menace. As they struggle to retain their sanity, the heroes must ally with other asylum residents and fight against the monstrosities that have taken over the building and plunged it into nightmare. Can the adventurers defeat the terror that stalks the halls and free themselves from their prison of madness?This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path launches the Strange Aeons Adventure Path and includes:- "In Search of Sanity," a Pathfinder adventure for 1st-level characters, by F. Wesley Schneider.- A double-sized article that peers into the dangerous realm of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods who make up the Elder Mythos, by James Jacobs.- A dollmaker's macabre secret in the Pathfinder's Journal, by Jason Keeley.- A collection of weird and frightful new monsters, by Eric Hindley, James Jacobs, Jenny Jarzabski, and F. Wesley Schneider.Cover art by Michal Ivan

    E. Grau"Eyes in the Dust accumulates fear like stratigraphic layers descending into a void. Peak’s is a wildly imaginative voice, bleak and harrowing in his vision." – Christopher SlatskyThe world has moved on and left Cortland behind. His career as an academic has fizzled out, his fiancé is dead, and he remains haunted by the notion that it’s his fault. When a consulting firm contacts him with the opportunity of a lifetime—two months off the grid studying slime molds at the bottom of an ancient impact crater—he has no choice but to accept. He soon learns, however, that the crater holds dark secrets, that death itself is not an exit, but rather a welcoming to the black folds of the vacuous realm. Here, perhaps, it’s possible to find all of the answers Cortland has been searching for—so long as he can remember what it means to be human.

     This volume from Hoade's Penny Dreadfuls blends Lovecraftian horror with the Decadence of the 1890s. The result is two stories that plumb the very depths of creativity lost to darkness, of joy suddenly smothered by the appearance of the uninvited, the unspeakable, the insatiable ... Other. More Absinthe in Arkham volumes coming in 2016!

     "Amorphous Madness" is the first story in the "A Short Journey Into Darkness" horror series by author W.O. Cassity. The short story series offers originally unique fiction written in vivid detail to immerse readers into the fringes of terror.

    A book covering the art of Richard Luong, famous for his art contained in the game Cthulhu Wars.

     THE SEA - a huge crab and a giant scorpion, ancient foes intent on battle, and woe betide anything or anyone who gets in their way. THE SANDS - deadly beetles, each bigger than a man, swarming and frenzied in defense of an ancient temple. SPACE - a mutated spider threatens the ISS. ABOVE - a plasmoid blob attaches itself to a weather ballon and on reaching earth, starts to feed. BEYOND - a giant invisible beast threatens post war London as it comes up the Thames towards Westminster. BELOW - giant scuttling Isopods swarm out of the depths bent on feeding and mayhem. All of this, and more in a new collection of stories from William Meikle. They come. We fight.

    This collection of short stories from some of the best working in the fields of horror and dark speculative fiction blends romance and Lovecraft in a way which will may make you sigh, smile, weep, or leave you the hollow shell of your former self.

    One of the writers that inspired him to become a writer was H. P. Lovecraft, and in this volume Shirley pays tribute to the titan of weird fiction with a series of imaginative elaborations upon Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. These stories range from narratives that feature Lovecraft himself as a shadowy character ("When Death Wakes Me to Myself") to historical tales where Lovecraftian entities emerge at critical points in the past ("Those Who Come to Dagon," "The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner," "Broken on the Wheel of Time") to vibrant tales melding Lovecraftian terror with modern technology ("At Home with Azathoth," "The Holy Grace of Cthulhu"). The volume concludes with a scintillating unpublished novella, "Broken on the Wheel of Time," elaborating upon conceptions found in Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time." "Putting this book together, I wondered what Lovecraft would have thought of it, and I found myself imagining Lovecraft traveling in time and reading my stories. Though HPL might need a cultural "translator" for these stories, since they're all twenty-first-century fare, I think he would at least recognize them as refractions of his work."-From John Shirley's Introduction John Shirley is the author of the best-selling "Wetbones" (1991) and other novels, and has published such short story collections as "Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side" (1998) and "In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley" (2011). He had won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award. He is also a prolific songwriter and singer.

    Choose from 47 possible endings, most resulting in death! Will it be yours? Includes Easter eggs for Saturday morning cartoons, 80's music, Dungeons and Dragons, the Cthulhu Mythos, Abc Weekend Specials, and other cultural icons and references of the era. Don't be afraid of the incredible hulking hybrid star spawn of Cthulhu - Scooby Doom will protect you!

    Never did he expect that his creations would become vessels to the ancient gods of chaos. Can Gepetto put down that which he has summoned, or will humanity fall before Pi-Noch-Chiu and The Black Pantheon?

    A horror out of legend. One chance to find the lost Last City of Man. Deep in the wastes of the forsaken Vast, rumor of the Harridan arises. An ancient, tainted monstrosity who only spreads horror and despair, she seethes with dark sorcery. Yet this terrible crone is said to know the way to the object of Sierra’s quest. She knows the path to the lost Last City of Man. Sierra’s entire world is haunted with living nightmares. The horrific tides of the Shroud have washed away entire civilizations, leaving only madness and horrific monsters in its wake. Yet the Last City stands, untouched and uncorrupted. To find it, Sierra and her master, the gun-slinging Senír Domingo, battle against tainted abominations, demented little hobbes, and the ever present threat of losing their own minds to horror and depravity. Together, they delve deep into the darkness of the world, pursuing a depraved witch consumed by madness. What they find there will echo across existence and shape entire worlds. An Oath of Wintersteel is a fantastical adventure filled with fast-paced adventure, surprising plot twists, and compelling characters. If you liked Anita Blake, Harry Dresden, or The Dark Tower, then you’ll love JM Guillen’s mind-bending carnival of the strange. Buy An Oath of Wintersteel to get lost in JM Guillen’s latest reality-warping adventure today!

    A town inhabited by sullen and hostile people with disturbing, amphibian looks. It’s no place for a sightseer. Passing through Innsmouth on a genealogical tour of New England, a young man makes an ill-advised attempt to unravel the town’s long-veiled history. What unfolds is a terrifying tale of a town transformed by its interaction with a monstrous aquatic civilization. As Innsmouth’s murky history is brought to light, the narrator learns that the town’s mysterious past is tied to his own family history. It is a revelation that has chilling consequences for the present—and for the future.