Best of
Lovecraftian

2020

Dead Lies Dreaming


Charles Stross - 2020
    In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened. The secret agents of the Laundry Files novels were unable to stop magic becoming public knowledge - in book one of this new series by Charles Stross, the repercussions of that failure are felt by ordinary people everywhere, as the world slides unknowingly towards occult cataclysm...

Not Pounded By Romance Wranglers Of America Because Their New Leadership Is From The Depths Of The Endless Cosmic Void


Chuck Tingle - 2020
    Of course, Gorblin is going to need some help getting his work out there, and starts by seeking likeminded creatives. After attending a local writer’s group, Gorblin makes a new friend, Amber, who points him towards Romance Wranglers Of America. It sounds like this community is exactly the helpful, loving, supportive group that Gorblin is looking for, but when him and Amber arrive at the Romance Wranglers Of America headquarters, they quickly realize something is wrong. This once loving group has been taken over by a dark and mysterious force; lead by a man named Demon and his chanting coven of board members in jet-black robes. Something horrible from the depths of the cosmic Void has taken hold, but is it too late to prove that romance is about love, not hate? This important no-sex tale is 4,300 words of reasonable writers looking for a kind and supportive romance community that respects its members and treats them fairly.

Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies


John Langan - 2020
    An editor receives the last manuscript of his murdered friend. A young lawyer learns the terrible connection between her grandfather and an ancient race of creatures. A bodyguard drives her employer across a frozen road toward an immense hole in the earth. In these stories and others, John Langan maps the branches of his literary family tree, tracing his connections to the writers whose dark fictions have inspired his own.

The Worm and His Kings


Hailey Piper - 2020
    Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace. Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city’s underground and snatches victims into the dark.Donna isn’t missing. She was taken.To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the known underground, into a subterranean world of enigmatic cultists and shadowy creatures. But what she finds looms beyond her wildest fears—a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars.

Escape From The Billings Mall: A Select Your Own Timeline Adventure


Chuck Tingle - 2020
    Luckily, The Billings Mall is open just a few minutes longer, and if you hurry you can find him something great.Tonight isn’t like other nights at The Billings Mall, however. After a reported timeline tear out by the lake, people are on edge, wondering if this inner dimensional event is as harmless as the police would have you believe. Is this a minor rift in reality, or has a pathway been opened to the depths of the endless cosmic Void?In this science fiction and horror tale of The Tingleverse, you decide which path to take. With multiple endings to discover and several consequences to face, the reader is the star of the show as you attempt to escape from The Billings Mall!Will you befriend a beautiful velociraptor with a meta awareness that you’re both just fictional characters in a books?Will you meet a terrifying reverse twin and suddenly find yourself parting with your own skin?Is the food court your best method of escape, or should you head even deeper into the mall to see what lurks in the manager’s office?The decision is yours!

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Whisperer in Darkness (Audio Drama)


H.P. Lovecraft - 2020
    It contains a recording of a man claiming that strange creatures live in the remote regions of the mountains of Vermont - just as described in old folklore. It's author presents compelling evidence and Professor Wilmarth eventually goes to Vermont to investigate for himself. What he discovers there is far, far worse than anything he could have imagined. Can the professor escape with his life and sanity, or will he become a part of a horror descended from interstellar space?

The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels


Mark Samuels - 2020
    But his work—collected in such volumes as The White Hands and Other Weird Tales (2003), The Man Who Collected Machen (2010), and Written in Darkness (2014)—has by and large appeared in limited editions not widely distributed in the United States. This volume features seventeen of Samuels’s best weird stories. Several display his fascination with technology, advertising, and urban horror, as in “Apartment 205” and the title story. Other tales speak of the writing of weird fiction itself as a potentially hazardous and supernatural enterprise, as in “The White Hands” and “Vrolyck.” In several of his lengthier narratives—notably “The Gentleman from Mexico” and “The Crimson Fog”—Samuels draws upon H. P. Lovecraft’s pseudomythology to venture into realms of cosmic horror. “The Black Mould” and “My World Has No Memories” are distinctively existential tales of undeniable potency.

To End All Wars: A Science Fiction Mystery Novel


David Tallerman - 2020
    

GOD CANCER


Greg Stolze - 2020
    GOD CANCER follows the adventures of Dr. Miles Trewick and Dr. Gail Pym. Trewick is an oncologist, attempting to secretly cure the advanced cancer of a billionaire, using techniques so sketchy he's only willing to attempt them on a yacht in international waters.Pym is a paleontologist, leading a team past an Antarctic range known as "the Mountains of Madness" on a mission to reach an alien city and upend everything humanity thinks they know about their place in the world.Each is on a collision course for a hellish revelation.

War of the God Queen


David Hambling - 2020
    She wasn’t prepared for what came next. An alien encounter that sent her falling through a portal into another worldJessica’s plight looks hopeless -- she doesn't understand the language, the bronze-age culture, or even how to defend herself. She’s not a Connecticut Yankee and this is definitely not King Arthur’s court.The locals are unimpressed.What’s her next move?Her only goal is to get back home, but Jessica has landed in the middle of something sinister: in the ancient near east, circa 1000 B.C., a war rages.Can she stop an alien invasion through time?She’ll need help, but who can she count on?You’ll love this brilliant take on portal fiction, with twists and turns that are different than what you’ve grown to expect.

Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction


Nick MamatasLivia Llewellyn - 2020
    P. Lovecraft maintains a visceral influence over a host of contemporary writers. Inspired by the Master of the Macabre's more optimistic writings, this unique collection spotlights the weird works of nine current horror and fantasy authors, including the award-winning Michael Cisco and Livia Llewellyn plus Victor LaValle, Molly Tanzer, and Masahiko Inoue. Also includes Clark Ashton Smith's 1931 "The City of the Singing Flame" and Lovecraft's own "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" as well as an extensive Introduction by leading Lovecraftian scholar Nick Mamatas.

The Anomaly Archives: Stories of Supernatural Misfortune and Horror (The Shattered God Mythos)


Travis Liebert - 2020
    

Things Unknown: A Collection of Scary, Haunting, and Supernatural Horror Stories (The Shattered God Mythos)


Travis Liebert - 2020
    

Things Undone


Travis Liebert - 2020
    All things unknown and unknowable are coming to light... Strange creatures wander the dark canopies of Germany's Black Forest. A young boy harbors something both dark and divine within him. A man learns to control his dreams, only to find an ancient evil imprisoned within them. Something lurks in the shadows of a woman's house, and it wants her baby. All of these things and more in this riveting new collection of 18 terrifying cosmic and paranormal tales. Get it now and discover the terrors that lurk within.

Harlem Unbound: 2nd Edition


Chris SpiveyNeall Raemonn Price - 2020
    African-Americans flee the oppressive South for greener pastures, creating a new culture in Harlem. The music of Fats Waller and Duke Ellington pours out of the city’s windows, while women in stylish skirts and silk stockings, and men in white gloves and Chesterfield coats crowd the sidewalks. There’s a feeling of possibility in the air, like never before.But, even in this land of promise, Harlem is a powder keg, ready to explode. While classes and cultures collide, the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos lurk beneath the streets, creeping through dark alleys and hidden doorways to infect the hopes and aspirations of the unwary.Can you hold it together and keep the terrors at bay for one more song?

Even Wimps Can Be Alien Overlords


Ben Fitts - 2020
    He just wishes that his jerk of a big brother, Vaargnhlu, didn't have to rub it in so much. But one day when Vaargnhlu decides to make Zumblefroth feel like crap over the fact that he has conquered his own planet and Zumblefroth hasn't, Zumblefroth decides to change that. Zumblefroth decides to go out and conquer.H.P. Lovecraft meets Arthur C. Clarke meets Adult Swim in the absurdist sci-fi comedy short story "Even Wimps Can Be Alien Overlords" by Ben Fitts, author of fiction collection My Birth And Other Regrets (released by Nihilism Revised in 2019).

The Legacy of the Unborn: A Novel of Lovecraftian Horror


Silas K. Henderson - 2020
    Lovecraft's masterpiece, At the Mountains of Madness.

Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror


Rogue Planet PressGary Budgen - 2020
    FossemòGavin ChappellGav RoachdownJohn C AdamsGary BudgenDJ TyrerStephen HernandezNorbert GoraMatthew WilsonNeal PrivettB Michael StevensMaria MitchellFrancis ErdmanJess C StevensonThomas IdoineNigel FeltonFranklyn SearightJosef DesadeVincent H. O'Neil

The Raven and the Eye


Jeffrey Caston - 2020
    Only he can meet this foe, but victory over the creature is far from certain.For those who love superheroes (even when they aren't necessarily heroic) and Lovecraftian monsters.

Reanimator Incorporated


Andy Perry - 2020
    As the boundaries of science are pushed to breaking point, ructions within the infernos of hell expose a much greater, theological threat.