Best of
Lovecraftian

2021

Into the Dread Void: A Cosmic Horror Thriller (The Dread Void Book 1)


Abe Moss - 2021
    The promise of a new start. A new life. A better life.But nothing will prepare Nell for the nightmare that awaits them there, or the many haunting revelations following fast on its heels. Everything Nell thinks she knows—about our world, our reality, and herself—is wrong, and one night of unspeakable terror will prove it.In the dead of night, a killer carves a trail of bloodshed across the quiet mountain landscape. Merciless. Unstoppable. Supernatural. Every victim is left in a similar state: on their knees, their flesh in tatters, with expressions of rapture upon their dying faces. Whatever is doing this, it's clearly not of this world, and only something—or someone—equally otherworldly can possibly stop it.Whatever—or whomever—that may be, they’d better hurry.Because Nell is running out of time.

The Awakening (The Darkness of Diggory Finch #1).


Chris Philbrook - 2021
    Same father lied about the family fortune.But now Grandma Beatrice is gone, and Diggory has inherited Finch Island in Twin Falls, as well as millions of dollars, a house, an old mill building, and the profound, evil darkness that dwells at the center of his family’s heart.Diggory returns home, happy and comfortable for the first time in a home that’s not going anywhere, and starts the process of opening up a game store on his family’s property. He even meets a young lady that makes him want to stop sabotaging his relationships. Could it be love?Or will the horror that unfolds undo all he’s ever wanted?The Finch family is surrounded by people who want something from them. They want the dark power that Diggory has access to. They want the doorway only he can open to remain open forever, and if they have to lock him up so the ancient evil he can access can always flow to them, then so be it.But for the first time, this Finch isn’t running, and isn’t content to be used to unleash evil on the world.Can Diggory harness the great darkness within him, and defeat the monsters that feast on the people of Twin Falls, or will he lose control, and put the entire world at risk?One part Stephen King, one part Kevin Smith. Twin Falls; a modern day Lovecraftian universe of ancient, eldritch evils, cults, monsters, and one very sarcastic young man that's just sick of being used, abused, and being self-destructive.

October Nights


Kevin Lucia - 2021
    This is true everywhere, but nowhere more so than in the small town of Clifton Heights. October nights here are long and strange, filled with both dread and transformation, and in these four shared-world tales of small-town Halloween horror, you'll encounter things both wondrous and terrifying, in equal measure, as...- A priest hears a ghostly confession on Halloween night which will mark him forever.- A young man is offered a supernatural chance to remake his fortune, at the risk of losing everything.- A pastor fleeing the death of his daughter comes to Clifton Heights to face his fears, but finds himself living a nightmare instead.- Two people with supernatural talents face-off with an engine of darkness and pain on Halloween night.Four connected Halloween tales, evoking echoes of Ray Bradbury and Charles L. Grant, taking place in a town where every day is All Hallow's Eve. Spend the Halloween season in Clifton Heights...if you dare."Kevin Lucia is a modern storyteller with a firm grounding in the classics." Bram Stoker Award Winning Author Norman Prentiss

Love Crafted


Ravens Dagger - 2021
    Abigail hoped for a bird, maybe an owl like her best friend's, or a cuddly cat or loyal hound. She would have been happy with a particularly smart toad, even.Instead she got you.

Tales of Yog-Sothoth


C.T. Phipps - 2021
    Lovecraft's most enduring creation after the Necronomicon and Great Cthulhu itself. An eldritch god that occupies all time and space, Yog-Sothoth is most known for his role as the antagonist in The Dunwich Horror but has played a role in many other Cthulhu Mythos stories. Sometimes as a being invoked for spells, others as a monster trying to enter reality, and a few places as a giver of hidden wisdom.TALES OF YOG-SOTHOTH features several stories centered around the creepy deity and its monstrous intelligence. Featuring the work of several Neo-Mythos authors who have already dabbled in the world of cosmic horror. C.T. Phipps (Cthulhu Armageddon), David Niall Wilson (The Call of Distant Shores), David Hambling (Harry Stubbs), Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran), and David J. West (Let Sleeping Gods Lie).Whether pulpy heroes punching evil cultists, robed assassins hunting unnatural monsters, or rednecks dealing with monsters in their back yard, you won't be disappointed with the results. This book is a follow-up to TALES OF THE AL-AZIF.

Zoltergeist the Poltergeist


Douglas Hackle - 2021
    

Cult of the Spider Queen: An Arkham Horror Novel


S.A. Sidor - 2021
    Brion, the famous actress and film director, vanished a year ago on an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon rainforest, delving into the legend of the Spider Queen. Thrilled by the prospect of his big break, Nortwick swings the funds to launch a rescue mission. He gathers a team of explorers and a keen folklorist to bring back Brion and cement his reputation. But deep in the Amazon jungle, the boundaries between intrepid adventurers, dreamers, and deranged fanatics blur inside a web of terror.

The Book of Yig: Revelations of the Serpent: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology


David Hambling - 2021
    Now they are stirring in their caves, walking the Earth in forms not quite human, slowly and patiently preparing their plans. Those who stumble on their secrets are in deadly danger…but only they can prevent the return of our darkest fears.Join us for a collection of novellas from some modern masters of Neo-Lovecraftian fiction: Peter Rawlik (Reanimator, The Weird Company), Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran, The Trials of Obed Marsh), David Hambling (Harry Stubbs, The Dulwich Horror), and Mark Howard Jones (Cthulhu Cymraeg) telling stories of Yig’s deadly machinations.Watch the plot unfold, from the 1920s to the present day through four chilling episodes!

Shoggoths in Traffic


Tobias S. Buckell - 2021
    Buckell. In these twenty-four stories you'll find inhabitants of a small town who won't vaccinate against a zombie plague, a long sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man who puts stranded ghosts to rest, an ex-soldier traveling the seas who trades his life of hardship for a return to swords and blood, and many more tales of speculative fiction. Buckell's fertile imagination is on display in Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories as he comments on edgy issues of injustice and offers a thorny path to discover the human heart and all the strange things humans do. All the while, he keeps looking over your shoulder, waiting for rush hour to end.

Last Stop


David Green - 2021
    The real one.Won’t find it on no map, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who’s travelled it. I’d dare say this book’s the only evidence you’ll ever come across mentioning the forgotten road or the cursed bar and motel on it. Goes by the name of Whiskey Pete’s. The shiver you just felt, that’s a warning, and so’s this book.Thirteen stories of pure horror, terror, blood-curdling violence and spectacularly bad decisions, all inspired by the poor folks who fell foul of Route Thirteen and Whiskey Pete’s.Let this book be your warning if you find yourself on the forsaken road with the warming lights of Whiskey Pete’s upon your windshield. Turn back, or it will be your Last Stop.Original stories by best selling horror authors:Holley CornettoL. T. EmeryPeter J. FooteJ.W. GarrettDavid GreenStephen HerczegAbigail LinhardtBeth W. PattersonLynne PhillipsAustin ShireyJoshua D TaylorV. A. VazquezPatrick Winters

The Art of Arkham Horror


Asmodee - 2021
    Lovecraft, the bizarre and terrifying town of Arkham, Massachusetts, is peopled with courageous townsfolk, wise mystics, and curious academics who seek to understand the unknowable ancient entities that dwell at the edge of our reality. This full color hardcover collection showcases dynamic illustrations of the investigators and their allies, as well as the monsters directly inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos--even the Ancient Ones themselves! Alongside the eldritch creatures and intrepid investigators, each brooding location is beautifully rendered in a large, lush format so that readers can examine every amazing detail.Dark Horse Books and Asmodee join forces to present The Art of Arkham Horror! This volume is a must-have for any fan of table-top gaming or H.P. Lovecraft lore!

Mr. Cannyharme: A Novel of Lovecraftian Terror


Michael Shea - 2021
    He subsequently wrote some of the most scintillating and gripping tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in contemporary weird fiction, including "Fat Face" and "Copping Squid." These tales mingled Lovecraftian themes with the gritty realism of urban horror, and they often featured drug addicts, prostitutes, and others whom conventional society treats with scorn and marginalization.Shea wrote the novel Mr. Cannyharme in the late 1970s, and it constitutes a remarkable adaptation of Lovecraft's early story "The Hound" (1922), about the depredations of an ancient Dutch vampire. In Shea's novel, Mr. Cannyharme stalks the seedy Mission District of San Francisco in the aftermath of the hippie movement of the 1960s. Holed up in a rundown hotel, the seemingly harmless Cannyharme-aged, feeble, bent almost double with a crippling disease-is the focus of the supernatural terror in the novel.Jack Hale, who manages the hotel, is one of the few who sense the danger to society and the world that Cannyharme represents. With a motley band of young whores and drug dealers, he takes on the challenge to counteract the horrors that Mr. Cannyharme seeks to release upon an unsuspecting world.Mr. Cannyharme, written in a vibrant prose that brings to life the multitude of characters that populate the book, is a triumph of Lovecraftian terror, but also speaks of the way in which those who are regarded as the refuse of society can assert their dignity and self-worth in a grim environment. In this sense, it proves to be a novel affirming the triumph of the human spirit over the horrors facing it.

THE FEVERISH STARS: New and Uncollected Stories


John Shirley - 2021
    

Dark Farm


Dean Raven - 2021
    and this is just the beginning.A family of campers has been slaughtered and Sam Morgan from the government's National Security Office is scouring the Six Hills for the killers.In nearby Quorn, trainee fire officer Kane Gates struggles to come to terms with his own family tragedy. And now he has to battle the sinister sorcerer Wilfred Waite, who is bent on corrupting his brother and unleashing hell on earth.When the headstrong Arika Livingston appears in Quorn to investigate reports of a dragon attack, Kane finds himself with a valuable ally. But what is Arika's real agenda? And what is her connection to Sam Morgan and the Dark farm?The horrors lurking beneath the Dark farm will bring the feuding brothers together and begin a chain of events that will threaten not only Dylan, not only our planet, but existence itself.How deep into a world of horror will Kane descend to protect his family from evil?Dark Farm is a supernatural adventure, a thrilling rollercoaster ride into a universe of wizardry, magic, horror, gods, cosmic terror and a looming apocalypse, that has at its heart the fragile relationship between two brothers.Dark Farm - Book One in the epic series, Bringer of the DarkIn the far reaches of the universe, the primordial Kragn Z'garh Khrl'ur plots its long-awaited return to Earth. It has help from ancient cults, opposed for centuries by the might of a supernatural society, and now new and unlikely heroes are emerging to lead the final battle.

Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign


James ChambersCarol Gyzander - 2021
    Chambers’s foundational works of weird horror. From the personal to the historic, from the macabre to the fantastic, the stories and poems gathered here illuminate new, unexpected realities shaped by the King in Yellow, under the sway of the Yellow Sign, or in the grip of madnesses inspired by their power.Robert W. Chambers’s classic work of weird fiction, The King in Yellow (1895), contained two stories that have exercised wide influence in the genre. “The Repairer of Reputations” introduced the world to The King in Yellow, a play in two acts, banned for its reputed power to drive mad anyone who reads its complete text. Another story, “The Yellow Sign,” used the experiences of an artist and his model to elaborate on the mythos of the Yellow King, the Yellow Sign, and their danger to all who encounter them. In those tales Chambers crafted fascinating glimpses of a cosmos populated by conspiracies, government-sanctioned suicide chambers, haunted artists, premonitions of death, unreliable narrators—and dark, enigmatic occurrences tainted by the alien world of Carcosa, where the King rules in his tattered yellow mantle. In Carcosa, black stars rise and Cassilda and Camilla speak and sing. In Carcosa, eyes peer from within pallid masks to gaze across Lake Hali at the setting of twin suns.

Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: Omnibus Volume 2


Mike Mignola - 2021
    As the Queen’s personal “Witchfinder,” Grey continues to pursue the occult goings on in London and beyond. But this time the events he encounters—and the things he learns—will lead him to question his very future. Complete your Witchfinder omnibus library with this second volume, featuring the writing of Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, with art from Ben Stenbeck, D’Israeli, and Christopher Mitten and stunning colors from Michelle Madsen and Dave Stewart. Collects Witchfinder TPB volumes 4-6.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth Part One: Descent Into Innsmouth


Simon Birks - 2021
    Armed with his notebook, he intends not only to study the local architecture but to try and understand why this mysterious town is shunned so by its neighbours.However, what starts out as an innocent diversion, quickly descends into darkness and, ultimately, a battle for his sanity and his life.The Shadow Over Innsmouth – Part One is written by Simon Birks, art by RHStewart and letters by Lyndon White.

Blackrift Gate


Parijat Mukherjee - 2021
    Humanity now populates once haunted lands, bearing fading signs of forgotten eons, and aftermath of some strange event. Unexplained incidents keep happening in various corners of this world. Disappearances. Accounts of strange sightings. Insanity. Horrifying legends and absurd folklores circulate around fireplaces in hushed voices.This book is a collection of such fragmented individual events, ofren taking place around a particularly peculiar valley. Wavy hillocks shrewd in mist, surrounded by highlands like an ancient wall, guarding the secrets.Stories:Blackrift Mansion: Mysterious phenomena starts to take place around a mansion in a foggy valley. Shady group of villagers engage in cryptic rituals as some souls find themselves struggling against an unknown threat as they are dragged into a bizarre event. The legends of the Old Water might as well be true.The Cave Horror: Two prehistoric hunters take shelter from thunderstorm in a seemingly normal cave. Things start to take a sinister turn as night falls.Journey to the Eastern Mounds: Prehistoric people from the same tribe need to make a journey to a misty valley of rolling hills, eastwards from their camp. They take the Shaman's Trail, a shorter rout to their destination. It was supposed to be an uneventful journey. Normally.Ceterum Sanguis: An impoverished single father from the Italia of this world makes a risky venture to an annual fair at a big city, hoping to earn enough to afford a supposedly miracle cure for his dying son. But everything changes after a strange encouter on the way.