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09.09.2020

“Worlds of Cthulhu” by Robert M. Price

"Worlds of Cthulhu" by Robert M. Price

""What, pray tell," asks editor Robert Price, "is wrong with sequels?" This remarkable stewpot of original stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft answers that question decisively: Not a thing is wrong with them! Indeed, everything is deliciously right. Lovecrafts' fictional world, after all, is well worthy of emulation, so it's no surprise to find it generating sequels like these tales. You see, it's rather like natural selection: What is successful in the gene pool survives to copy itself into thefuture, and what we have here is the welcome spectacle of Lovecraft's fictional DNA replicating itself with a vengeance. Darwin would be proud. Lovecraft would be mystified. Readers will be pleased. So climb abour the creaky bus, take...>>

09.09.2020

“The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep” by Gary Myers

"The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by Gary Myers

"Gary Myers first appeared on the Lovecraftian scene in 1970, when August Derleth’s Arkham House published his earliest Lovecraftian dreamworld fantasies in The Arkham Collector. He reached a peak some five years later, when Arkham House published his first collection, The House of the Worm. The Country of the Worm is Myers’s long-awaited follow-up to The House of the Worm. It contains that first book in a corrected edition, together with all the stories in the same fantastic vein that Myers has written in the forty-three years since. It includes literary tributes to Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith. It concludes with an early novella, a gothic nightmare appearing here for the first time....>>

09.09.2020

“The House of the Worm” by Gary Myers

"The House of the Worm" by Gary Myers

"It is with special pride the publisher offers this first book by the young California writer Gary Myers. The imperially slim volume is an episodic novel, a collection of ten tales each a masterpiece of macabre fantasy structured to present the author’s own special insight into the Cthulhu Mythos – what Mr. Myers calls “an interesting heresy.” Brevity is the soul of Gary Myers’ style; his viewpoint is mordant, ironic and always perfect for striking a note of chilling terror. Whether he is being ocularly descriptive as with “The House of the Worm” and “The Maker of Gods,” in which the unrelenting terror is established as if a report from the pupil of the...>>

09.09.2020

“Dark Wisdom” by Gary Myers

"Dark Wisdom" by Gary Myers

"The evolution of the Cthulhu Mythos has been toward equal but opposite extremes of complexity and simplicity. Complexity, as the mythology of H. P. Lovecraft and his immediate circle was taken over by a band of enthusiastic later writers who elaborated and expanded it beyond all recognition. Simplicity, as in order to support this complicated structure, the distinctive elements of that mythology were diluted and blended into a truly amorphous whole. Dark Wisdom is a collection of modern Mythos stories that attempts to correct for both these extremes. Each of its twelve tales is written around one of the central tropes of the classic Mythos: a book like the Necronomicon, a race like the...>>

09.09.2020

“Gray Magic” by Gary Myers

"Gray Magic" by Gary Myers

"From the crowded shelf of Cthulhu Mythos grimoires, only the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred is consulted more frequently than The Book of Eibon. But Eibon himself is less well known. Clark Ashton Smith, the creator of Eibon and his book, wrote only one story about the Hyperborean wizard, and that one dealt with the end of his life. It has been left for Smith’s disciples to imagine the episodes of his earlier existence. Gray Magic is such an episode, and easily the most elaborate of the lot. For in the course of this one novel Eibon (and Cyron, his young apprentice) must take on an army of sorcerers and a brace of gods in...>>