Best of
Weird-Fiction

1975

The Hounds of Tindalos


Frank Belknap Long - 1975
    These included "The Hounds of Tindalos" (the 1st Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft), The Horror from the Hills (which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos) & "The Space-Eaters" (featuring a fictionalized HPL as main character). The Hounds are Long's most famous 17 fictions. They're a pack of foul, incomprehensibly alien beasts "emerging from strange angles in dim recesses of non-Euclidean space before the dawn of time" to pursue travelers down the corridors of time. They can only enter our reality via angles, where they mangle & exsanguinate their victims, leaving behind only a "peculiar bluish pus or ichor". They're referenced by many later Mythos writers, including Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter & Brian Lumley. They've inspired a number of metal & electronic music artists, such as Epoch of Unlight, Edith Byron's Group, Beowulf, Fireaxe/Brian Voth & Univers Zero, all of whom have recorded tracks based on the story.

Brother Theodore's Chamber Of Horrors


Brother TheodoreMaurcie Level - 1975
    GoodmanThe Celery Stalks in the Basement by Saralee TerryLast Respects by Dick BaldwinThe Strange Island Of Doctor Nork by Robert BlochUnsigned Original by Parke GodwinA Predicament by Edgar Allan PoeMoon-Face by Jack LondonThe Philosophy of Sebastian Trump or The Art of Outrage by William E. Kotzwinkle & Robert ShiarellaOil of Dog by Ambrose BierceThe Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'BrienThe Pale Criminal by C. Hall ThompsonThe Day of the Lynx by Steve KnickmeyerOur Late Visitor by Joseph LavinsonNight and Silence by Maurcie LevelThe Possession Of Immanuel Wolf by Brother Theodore & Marvin Kaye