Oscar Rios

Brian M. Sammons

Heroes of Red Hook is a collection of eighteen cosmic horror tales taking place during the Jazz Era with a very specific focus. Our heroes and heroines are the outsiders who are most often blamed (wrongly so) for the actions of various alien horrors of the Mythos. Our heroes and heroines are members of ethnic and religious minorities, immigrants, independent free-thinking women, those with special needs, and members of the LGBT community. This collection features people struggling to overcome not only the horrors beyond mankind’s understanding, but an oppressive society seeking to deny them basic human rights.

Edited by Brian M. Sammons & Oscar Rios

A True Telling of the Terror that Came to Red Hook (William Meikle)
Ivan and the Hurting Doll (Mercedes M. Yardley)
A Gentleman of Darkness (Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire)
Hungry Ghosts (Cody Goodfellow)
Tell Me No Lies (Sam Stone)
O Friend and Companion of Night (Vincent Kovar)
Across a River of Stars (Scott R. Jones)
Old Time Religion (Paula R. Stiles)
Men and Women (Oscar Rios)
The Eye of Infinity (Sam Gafford)
Lords of Karma (Glynn Owen Barrass & Juliana Quartaroli)
A Ghastly Detestable Pallor (Penelope Love)
Crossing the Line (Tom Lynch)
The Guilt of Nikki Cotton (Pete Rawlik)
Brickwalk Mollies (Christine Morgan)
The Backwards Man (Tim Waggoner)
Beyond the Black Arcade (Edward M. Erdelac)
Shadows Upon the Matanzas (Lee Clark Zumpe)

Heroes of Red Hook

Nicholas Cook

Robert M. Price

Jeffrey Thomas

Lois H. Gresh

Tim Curran

William Meikle

Tom Lynch

David Conyers

D.L. Snell

Ran Cartwright

Glynn Owen Barrass

David Dunwoody

Peter Rawlik

Daniele Serra

Terrie Leigh Relf

Sam Stone

Carrie Cuinn

CJ Henderson

Michael Tice

Unquiet Tales of a Mythos-Haunted Future

Eldritch Chrome

Josh Reynolds

Pete Rawlik

Edward M. Erdelac

D. L. Snell

Lee Clark Zumpe

John Goodrich

Christine Morgan

D. J. Tyrer

Adam Bolivar

Thana Niveau

Christopher M. Geeson

Leigh Kimmel

Robert Neilson

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." So said H.P. Lovecraft in the first chapter of his most famous story, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926). This is also the perfect introduction to Steampunk Cthulhu, for within these stories mankind has indeed voyaged too far, and scientific innovations have opened terrifying vistas of reality, with insanity and worse as the only reward. The Steampunk genre has always incorporated elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and alternative history, and certainly the Cthulhu Mythos has not been a stranger to Steampunk. But until now there has never been a Steampunk Cthulhu collection, so here are 18 tales unbound from the tethers of mere airships, goggles, clockwork, and tightly bound corsets; stories of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and alternative realities tainted with the Lovecraftian and the Cthulhu Mythos. Here you will discover Victorian Britain, the Wild West era United States, and many other varied locations filled with anachronistic and sometimes alien technology, airships, submersibles and Babbage engines. But the Victorian era here is not only one of innovation and exploration, but of destruction and dread.

Mythos Terror in the Age of Steam

Steampunk Cthulhu

A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories

World War Cthulhu

When will the mortals learn that there can be no profit or joy to be gained through relations with the insidious old ones? These sixteen tales of depravity, sorcery and madness may offer some illumination, but ultimately there can be no salvation for those who dabble in The Dark Rites of Cthulhu. The writers share cautionary tales set in a multiverse of jealousy, greed, desperation and naivety and is guaranteed to delight students of the Dark Arts and followers of the Great Old Ones alike.

The Dark Rites of Cthulhu

Ramsey Campbell

Lucy A. Snyder

Chris Kelso

Kevin Lewis

E. A. Black

Brian C. Short

Richard A. Scott

Michael F. Housel

Raffaele Pezzella

Stories by:Ramsey Campbell, Brian M Sammons, Glynn Owen Barrass, Lucy A. Snyder, E.A. Black, Chris Kelso, Andrew Coulthard, Stephen Mark Rainey, Kevin Lewis, Richard A. Scott, Russell Smeaton, John Buja, Made in DNA, David Agranoff, Pete Rawlik, Brian C. Short, Michael Housel, John Chadwick, David Voyles, Konstantine Paradias, Edward Morris, Parry Milton, Phil Breach, Garrett Cook, Andrew Freudenberg, Sarah Walker. The twenty-seven writers whose works appear here mine the rich seams that Lovecraft's original vision created. However, lest one imagine that this implies that they merely slavishly follow in his footsteps, hewing to well-worn paths with rigid and blinkered preconceptions, think again. It has been nearly 85 years since the Providence, Rhode Island scholar's death and, just as in the real world we have seen social and technological evolution in those intervening years, the matter of the Lovecraftian tale has itself evolved and expanded. A main thesis originally propounded by HPL, that of the existence of uncaring entities beyond our understanding who neither care about nor acknowledge our being part of the physical universe, still weaves its threads through many of the stories published here, and most of those remain unnamed and out of focus, elusive to both mind and physical senses. This approach is a logical progression - as alluded to above the universe is far vaster and more hostile than was ever imagined in the early decades of the 20th century. Just how do we even begin to delineate the possible monstrosities that might inhabit the corners of the infinity we call space? The tales of Lovecraft touched on primal fears of the dark unknown, with great effect, and now, nearly a century on, the spirit of the Lovecraftian tale is still with us, courtesy of a group of literary explorers willing to forge through the dark matter of our hostile home and write of their experiences and travails in the lightless places. These 27 epistles of horror and weirdness are presented as a testament to the fact that, as much as we've discovered since Howard Philips Lovecraft's time, there are still many more unknowns waiting to be uncovered.Parry Milton

Curated by Raffaele Pezzella

The BLACK STONE. Stories for Lovecraftian Summonings

Legacy of the Reanimator

Brian M. Sammons

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