“Akropolis” © 2007 Matt Wallace. Originally published at Pseudopod #47, July 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Nyarlathotep Event” © 2011 Jonathan Wood. Originally published at Wired.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu mythos encompasses a pantheon of truly existential cosmic horror: Eldritch, uncaring, alien god-things, beyond mankind’s deepest imaginings, drawing ever nearer, insatiably hungry, until one day, when the stars are right….
As that dread day, hinted at within the moldering pages of the fabled Necronomicon, draws nigh, tales of the Great Old Ones: Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Hastur, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, and the weird cults that worship them have cross-pollinated, drawing authors and other dreamers to imagine the strange dark aeons ahead, when the dead-but-dreaming gods return.
Now, intrepid anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has delved deep into the Cthulhu canon, selecting from myriad mind-wracking tomes the best sanity-shattering stories of cosmic terror. Featuring fiction by many of today’s masters of the menacing, macabre, and monstrous, The Book of Cthulhu goes where no collection of Cthulhu mythos tales has before: to the very edge of madness…and beyond!
Do you dare open The Book of Cthulhu? Do you dare heed the call?
About the Editor
Ross E. Lockhart is the managing editor of Night Shade Books. A lifelong fan of supernatural, fantastic, speculative, and weird fiction, he holds degrees in English from Sonoma State University (BA) and San Francisco State University (MA). In 2011, he edited the acclaimed anthology The Book of Cthulhu. His rock-and-roll novel, Chick Bassist, is forthcoming from Lazy Fascist Press. He lives in an old church in Petaluma, California, with his wife Jennifer, hundreds of books, and Elinor, who is fitting in nicely.
Find out more about The Book of Cthulhu at www.thebookofcthulhu.com
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