Best of
Lovecraftian

2019

H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers


R.J. Ivankovic - 2019
    Lovecraft story "Dagon" is gracefully retold in anapestic tetrameter and illustrated in a darkly whimsical style by "genius poet-artist" R.J. Ivankovic.A sailor escapes in a lifeboat after his ship is attacked by a German raider during World War I. He soon finds himself in more bizarre peril, stranded in a dark, stinking mire on the edge of a mammoth pit. Venturing into the pit, he discovers a monolith covered in weird hieroglyphics and something stranger still that crawls from the slimeƒ‚‚"ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚"a creature that may be the vanguard of a vast and monstrous invading army from the depths of the sea.This glorious full-color adaptation is R.J. Ivankovic's follow-up to the popular H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers, also available from Chaosium.

Tales of the Al-Azif: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology


Matthew Davenport - 2019
    Lovecraft to terrify readers with tales of dark and twisted horrors from beyond. No, the Al-Azif, or Book of the Insect, is the first work that told mankind of Cthulhu, Azathoth, and other terrors. Indeed, it was the book that inspired "The Mad Arab" Abdul Al-Hazred to write its more famous successor. Join us for a collection of novellas written by some of the best Neo-Lovecraftian authors today: Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran, The Trials of Obed Marsh), David Hambling (Harry Stubbs, The Dulwich Horror), David J. West (Porter Rockwell, Redneck Eldritch), David Niall Wilson (The Call of Distant Shores), and C. T. Phipps (Cthulhu Armageddon) in telling stories of this mysterious book. Find out where the nightmares began!

An Invitation to Darkness


Hailey Piper - 2019
    Of course, it’s never that simple in a Gothic story. Leavenworth Manor is haunted, but ghosts are the least of the lovers’ troubles.A Short Sharp Shocks! book.(Cover by Adrian Baldwin)

The Old One and The Sea


Lex H. Jones - 2019
     Howard is a lonely, isolated boy who lives in the run-down seaside town of Innsmouth. Most of the town’s men left to fight the Great War and didn’t come back, and those that did, like Howard’s neighbour Mr Derleth, brought their own scars and strange stories with them. None quite so strange as what is about to happen to Howard, however. An undersea earthquake brings a strange black reef to the surface just off the coast of Innsmouth, and with it something else. Something old, and forgotten, and every bit as lonely as the young boy who discovers it. What follows is a unique and secret friendship that will change the life of both Howard and his bizarre new friend forever. “With ‘The Old One and The Sea’, Lex H Jones has crafted a clever and beautiful coming-of-age story set within a miniature Lovecraftian snowglobe – in which adventure and intrigue exist alongside ancient monsters, and friends can be found in the unlikeliest of places.” Laura Mauro, British Fantasy Award Winning author of ‘Looking for Laika’. “Lex H Jones is a unique voice in horror and a writer to watch. The Old One and The Sea is an imaginative tale that will delight Lovecraftian readers of all ages.” Taylor Grant, Two-Time Bram Stoker Award Finalist.

Imperfect Commentaries


Ruthanna Emrys - 2019
    Ruthanna Emrys's collection offers readers feminist and #ownvoices Neo-Lovecraftian fiction, anthropological science fiction, and fantasies of belonging, plus miscellaneous deleted scenes, poems, and secret story origins. Readers familiar with her novels (Winter Tide and Deep Roots) will see the first appearance Aphra Marsh, an Innsmouth survivor, still recovering from her losses and making a life for herself in late-1940s San Francisco in "The Litany of Earth."

The Keeper of the Gate


William Meikle - 2019
     Out of the Black - After the dimming of the sun a survivor searches for power sources and finds insanity. Eeny Meeny Miney Mi-Go - Derek Adams, the Midnight Eye, encounters Lovecraftian beings from the stars in unlikely parts of Glasgow

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft


H.P. Lovecraft - 2019
    Lovecraft Historical Society has produced an audio recording of all of Lovecraft's stories. These are not dramatizations like our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre - rather, this is an audiobook of the original stories, in all-new, never-before-heard recordings made by the HPLHS' own Andrew Leman and Sean Branney exclusively for this collection. Working from texts prepared by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, this collection spans his entire career from his earliest surviving works of childhood to stories completed shortly before his death. All tales include original music by HPLHS composer Troy Sterling Nies. This audio bonanza features 74 stories adding up to more than fifty (50!) hours of Lovecraftian listening fun, professionally performed and recorded for your enjoyment.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Masks of Nyarlathotep


H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society - 2019
    Lovecraft, presented as a 1930s-style radio drama. Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents the tale with an absurdly large cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies. Like many Lovecraft fans, we played Chaosium's celebrated role playing game Call of Cthulhu. Now, in partnership with Chaosium, we've adapted their most famed and beloved game supplement of all time - Masks of Nyarlathotep - into a fully dramatized super episode of Dark Adventure Radio Theatre. And if you've never heard of or played the game - don't worry, you don't need to know anything about the game to enjoy this super-sized episode. The death of a dear old friend and an inquiry into a doomed archeological expedition spiral into a global investigation with dire repercussions. Can a handful of intrepid investigators make a stand against an insidious and bloodthirsty cult? Can a diabolical conspiracy be thwarted before a doomsday plan comes to fruition? Is there any hope for mankind against the machinations of an Elder God or will they meet only despair, death and madness?Based on the 5th edition of "Masks of Nyarlathotep", a campaign for the Call of Cthulhu® role playing game originally written by Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis. Fifth edition written by Mike Mason, Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward

Delta Green: The Labyrinth


John Scott Tynes - 2019
    government’s 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green opposes the forces of darkness with honor but without glory. Delta Green agents fight to save humanity from unnatural horrors—often at a shattering personal cost.Delta Green: The Labyrinth takes Delta Green agents beyond the beltway and deep into the fissures of America in the new millennium. From the loathsome servitors of the 1% to the hardscrabble faithful of the Rust Belt, from the abusive warrens of the Internet to the lonely chambers of every human heart, from the toxic legacy of the Cold War to the doomed idealists trapped in a world they cannot save, American life has entered a labyrinth of twisty passages all alike. And while there are many ways in, there is no way out.Written by Delta Green co-creator John Scott Tynes, this all-new collection of organizations presents ready-made sources of allies, enemies, mysteries, and surprises for your Delta Green campaign: Center for the Missing Child…The Dream Syndicate…Agent Renko…The Witness Alliance…New Life Fertility…The Lonely…The Sowers…and The Prana Sodality.Each group has its own story arc, progressing through three stages as it encounters Delta Green agents and the evils they fight. Some groups corrode, wither, and die. Others gain hideous strength and uncover profound new horrors. Each has connections to other groups, ensuring that players find fresh hells at every turn. But all are destined to change. The journey each one takes holds up a mirror to the agents themselves.Because things fall apart. The center cannot hold. And once you enter the Labyrinth, you will never escape.The Labyrinth is a sourcebook for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, available from Arc Dream Publishing.

Wicked Weird


Amber FallonMorgan Sylvia - 2019
    These places exist just around the corner of our vision, beyond the ocean fog of memory and nightmare, where monstrous children cry for love and secrets are hidden in remote caves; where nature reclaims its own and a sweet taste in your mouth portends evil beyond imagining. Within these pages are twenty-one secrets hidden behind a veil only the most ancient of beings have dared to pass through, brought to you by some of the most talented and imaginative authors to come out of New England. In short, these stories are Wicked Weird.

Bedtime Stories


Russell Smeaton - 2019
    These contain horror, weird literature as well as some rather dark comedy pieces.

Things Not Made


Michael Sellars - 2019
    Pursued through the deserted streets of a not-quite Liverpool by 'the man in the green hoodie'—who may not even be human—Holly must use all her resources to stay alive.Realising her friend is unaccountably missing, Melanie sets off in pursuit. But will she find her friend in time? Or will the man—or thing—in the green hoodie find her first?A story of friendship, books and cosmic horror from the author of Hyenas, described by Kirkus Reviews as "genuinely frightening... exhilarating. Evokes both classic literature and classic horror."

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Lurking Fear (Audio Drama)


H.P. Lovecraft - 2019
    As the local authorities investigate, they begin to suspect there's more at work than unseasonable weather. Their inquiries lead them to an abandoned mansion from the days when New York was a Dutch colonial territory. Is the old mansion haunted by the victim of a tragic murder? Are strange wild animals roaming the surrounding woods, preying on human victims? Or could there be more terrible forces at work, lurking unseen in the foreboding back woods?Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Lurking Fear".

Into The Black: Tales of Lovecraftian Terror


William Meikle - 2019
     12 Lovecraftian tales, all previous published in anthologies.

Harlem Smoke


James Champagne - 2019
    Lovecraft fan. Back in 1996 Isaac was the sole member of the Dunwich Posse, an experimental Lovecraftian horrorcore hip-hop act that released Harlem Smoke, a groundbreaking album chronicling the gruesome exploits of its titular monster. But when his album began to inspire real-life copycat crimes, Isaac abandoned his musical career at the height of his fame.Flash-forward to 2015. Once again living in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, Isaac, now 38, has reinvented himself as a Pickman-esque painter of the morbid and the macabre. He wishes to forget his past; but his life gradually takes a hellish descent when an interview with a music magazine resurrects public interest in the Dunwich Posse. Meanwhile, local women are being murdered in a variety of grotesque scenarios that seem directly inspired by the lyrics of Isaac's old, cursed album. As police suspicion mounts, Isaac begins investigating his family's sinister history, in search of answers for just who (or what) the elusive Harlem Smoke actually is: an interior quest that could lead to his own annihilation.Set in a social realist modern-day Providence where paradoxical dimensions of cosmic horror are only a stone's throw away, Harlem Smoke is a creative re-imagining of the artistic potentialities of the Lovecraftian novel.

The Medusa Ritual: A Pierce Mostyn Paranormal Investigation (Pierce Mostyn Paranormal Investigations Book 5)


C.W. Hawes - 2019
    Their mission? To find a rare book of forbidden knowledge before the owner can unleash unthinkable terror upon the world. And when a mysterious mask-wearing man, dressed in Chinese robes upends the mission and captures Mostyn’s partner, Dr Dotty Kemper — things take a very personal turn for Mostyn. To rescue Dotty, Mostyn and his team follow the clues deep into the crumbling tunnel system beneath Los Angeles. In this deadly labyrinth, Mostyn is in a race against time to stop the mysterious man. But around every corner will they discover the mysterious man, Dotty, or the dreaded Gorgon herself? The Medusa Ritual is the fifth book in CW Hawes’s Pierce Mostyn Paranormal Investigations series. Love weird fiction, horror, monsters, humor, thrilling action, and the Cthulhu Mythos? Join Pierce Mostyn’s team today — if you dare!

La Belle Fleur Sauvage: Plague of the Womb


Caitlín R. Kiernan - 2019
    Amid the ruins, the protagonists grapple with the past and learn to survive what remains.

Dead Light and other Dark Turns


Alan Bligh - 2019
    

Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic


Catherine Lundoff - 2019
    Vengeful spirits. Wronged women. A glimpse of a grim future and a visit to a terrifying past. Step inside for a taste of nightmare, a bit of the unexpected and a touch of the weird. 12 stories by award-winning author Catherine Lundoff including:The Mask and the AmontilladoA Splash of CrimsonBluebeard’s WifeDuchessMedium MéchaniqueMiss Lucy’s GlassCherubimPreservesHauntedHome Staging, with PhantasmFirebirdThe TemporaryUnfinished Business marks the launch of Queen of Swords Press “mini” series. These books will be shorter works that feature single author short story collections, as well as novella length works, around s single theme. Essentially, they will function like tasting menu to introduce authors to new audiences. This particular volume represents a sample of award-winning author Catherine Lundoff’s short horror, dark fantasy and weird stories, a mix of reprint and new work.

The Cthulhu Hack: Valkyrie Nine


Paul Baldowski - 2019
    You've activated to find power failing and no network connectivity except for short range buzz shots to other local units.Stabilize. Restore. Report.Unsuccessful execution caused by a system error that precludes successful execution of subsequent statements. Database file appears corrupt (). Shellmanager database is corrupt of missing. Unit enquiry could not make a connection to the primary server. There may be a problem with your network connection. Please try connecting to the remote computer again.POWER_STATE_UNKNOWN.ENVIRONMENTAL_STATE_UNKNOWN.INTEGRITY_STATE_UNKNOWN.Recovery stat& has b&&n activated, initiali$ing all maintenance and repair units. Corrupted network conn&ctivity m&an$ state data = 0%. Correct the problem. Restore power. Restore network connectivity.Valkyrie Nine (is a one-shot investigation, written for The Cthulhu Hack but playable with any system geared toward Lovecraftian horror. Set 100 years into the future, the investigation sets the starting point for a wider campaign setting that will feature in a future release, supported by more investigations.The adventure includes:- a 15-page adventure, including deep background, timeline, GM guidance, non-player character write-ups and a detailed overview of the Valkyrie-9 station- a set of 5 full sheet Gamemaster Reference maps- a 6-page section of handouts and pre-generated character cardsWhile you need the for Core Book to handle the baseline mechanics, the investigation includes five pre-generated character archetypes with modified rules for playing as automated drone units.