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The Devourer Below: An Arkham Horror Anthology

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The Devourer Below: An Arkham Horror Anthology
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The city of Arkham falls prey to ghoulish dread in this chilling anthology of action-packed adventure, from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror

Something monstrous has come to Arkham, Massachusetts. There have always been shadows here, but now a new hunger has risen from the depths and threatens those who dwell here. But there are heroes too – people who stand up and fight to stem the tide, even when it costs them everything. Explore eight shocking new tales of occult horror, captivating mystery, and existential fear – from a zealous new heroine to conniving cultists, bootleg whiskey to night terrors, and fiends that crawl from open graves. A nightmare has fallen across Arkham, and it will devour all.

Wrath of N’kai: (Arkham Horror)

Wrath of N'kai: (Arkham Horror)
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The first in a new range of novels of eldritch adventure from the wildly popular Arkham Horror; an international thief of esoteric artifacts stumbles onto a nightmarish cult in 1920s New England.

Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in  Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a  mound in Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror gestating within it.

The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories
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From one of the grand masters of science-fiction comes a collection inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.

“[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas.” —Ray Bradbury

Hugo-nominee and sci-fi luminary Henry Kuttner was part of the Lovecraft Circle, submitting plot ideas and draft manuscripts to H.P. Lovecraft himself, and Kuttner played an important role in developing the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the seminal works of the genre.

The Book of Iod is a short story collection containing ten Cthulhu Mythos stories.These stories include:
The Secret of Kralitz
The Eater of Souls
The Salem Horror
The Just of Droom-avista
Spawn of Dagon
The Invaders
The Frog
Hydra
Bells of Horror
The Hunt

The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu

The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu
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Ten Titanic Terror Tales in the Lovecraft tradition!

Before recorded history, they were. Cthulhu. Nyarlathotep. Azathoth. Yog-Sothoth. Shub-Niggurath. Nug. Yeb. And Others. The Great Old Ones. Lurking just outside our reality. Powerful. Potent. And exceedingly patient. Awaiting the inevitable hour when the malignant stars are again right, permitting them to infiltrate the Earth, claiming our green world as their dark domain.

Against these impersonal cosmic forces stand the men and women of the Cryptic Events Evaluation Section of the Department of Defense. Can these dedicated agents hold back the eternal night foretold nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh rises from the Pacific deep and Great Cthulhu awakens from his brooding slumber?

Don’t count on it….

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
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e Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all Lovecraft’s solo writings as an adult, beginning in 1917 with “The Tomb” and ending in 1935 with “The Haunter of the Dark.”

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author’s all Solo Writings as an adult. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft’s trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes.

This Edition has over 60 Stories; Included in this volume are, ‘The Tomb’; ‘The Case of Charles Dexter Ward’, ‘Old Bugs’; ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, ‘The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath’, ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, ‘The Temple’, ‘The Haunter of The Dark’, ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’, ‘The Color Out of Space’, ‘The Dunwich Horror’, and many more hair-raising tales.

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
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From the depths of R’lyeh come twenty-one brand-new, utterly terrifying, and thoroughly entertaining tales of Lovecraftian horror and the macabre

Taking their inspiration from works by Lovecraft himself, prominent writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. Burleson, and David J. Schow delve deep into the psyche, expanding on concepts H.P. Lovecraft created and taking them in new directions.

The result is stories that are wholly original, some even featuring Lovecraft himself as a character. Black Wings editor S.T. Joshi is the recognized authority on all things Lovecraftian, and is famous for his restorations of Lovecraft’s original works. He has assembled a star-studded line-up in a book that is essential for every horror library.

Weird World War III

Weird World War III
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TALES OF THE WAR THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

What if the United States had gone to war with the Soviet Union? What if these rival superpowers had fought on land, sea, air, and the astral plane? What if the Soviets and Americans had struggled for dominion across parallel dimensions or on the surface of the moon? How would the world have changed? What wonders would have been unveiled? What terrors would have haunted mankind from those dark and dismal dimensions? Come closer, peer through a glass darkly, and discover the horrifying alternative visions of World War III from some of today’s greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Includes new stories by David Drake, Brad R. Torgersen, Mike Resnick, Sarah A. Hoyt, and many more!

About the Contributors:

“Drake couldn’t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.”—Booklist on David Drake

“He’s one of the most talented authors I’ve ever read.”—Larry Correia on Brad R. Torgersen

“[A] tour de force: logical, built from assumptions with no contradictions . . . gripping.”—Jerry Pournelle on Sarah A. Hoyt

The Xothic Cycle

The Xothic Cycle
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The late Lin Carter was a prolific writer and anthologist of horror and fantasy with over eighty titles to his credit. His tales of Mythos horror are loving tributes to H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘revision’ tales and to August Derleth’s stories of Hastur and the R’lyeh Text. This collection of Carter’s Mythos tales includes all five Xothic Legend Cycle stories:

– The Dweller in the Tomb
– Out of the Ages
– The Horror in the Gallery
– The Thing in the Pit
– The Winfield Heritance

Filled with mind-bending, soul-warping terror, Carter taps into the eldritch horrors that Lovecraft brought into the world…

The Best of Lovecraftiana

The Best of Lovecraftiana
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An anthology of the greatest writers, poets, and illustrators ever to grace the pages of LOVECRAFTIANA: THE MAGAZINE OF ELDRITCH HORROR.

Voted for by members of the LOVECRAFTIANA FANS AND CONTRIBUTORS Facebook page.

Josh Maybrook
Carlton Herzog
David B Harrington
Lee Clark Zumpe
Joan d’Arc
Glynn Owen Barrass
Tim Mendees
TS S Fulk
Renee Mulhare
David A Riley
GO Clark
Mike T Lyddon
Gav Roachdown
Dean Wirth
Jim Pitts
Toe Keen

Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror

Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror
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Cthulhuvian thrills from the modern day heirs of the Lovecraftian legacy!

Featuring stories, poems, articles and art by:
Joseph Rubas
Seamus Esparza
Carl Fox
Benjamin Welton
Sandro D. Fossemò
Gavin Chappell
Gav Roachdown
John C Adams
Gary Budgen
DJ Tyrer
Stephen Hernandez
Norbert Gora
Matthew Wilson
Neal Privett
B Michael Stevens
Maria Mitchell
Francis Erdman
Jess C Stevenson
Thomas Idoine
Nigel Felton
Franklyn Searight
Josef Desade