“A Mountain Walked” edited by S.T. Joshi
"H. P. Lovecraft wrote The Call of Cthulhu in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if not thousands of authors of weird, fantasy, and science fiction have added their distinctive elaborations on Lovecraftâs basic themes and ideas.
This volume features some of the best Cthulhu Mythos writing over the past century. Beginning with such rare but classic stories as Mearle Proutâs The House of the Worm and Robert Barbour Johnsonâs Far Below, from the pages of Weird Tales, the anthology moves on to James Wadeâs novella The Deep Ones and Ramsey Campbellâs refreshing riff on the âforbidden bookâ motif, The Franklyn Paragraphs. Acclaimed stories by T. E. D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Neil Gaiman, and W. H. Pugmire are also included.
The book includes an array of original stories by such leading authors of Lovecraftian fiction as CaitlĂn R. Kiernan, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Donald Tyson, Cody Goodfellow, and Michael Shea. Gemma Files contributes a richly textured novella, while Jonathan Thomas offers a story full of his distinctive melding of horror and satire.
A Mountain Walked is chock-full of stories old and new that highlight the endless variations that can be played on H. P. Lovecraftâs signature creation."
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