Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Six)
Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
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Publisher Description
The sixth volume in the critically acclaimed series of Lovecraftian horror anthologies by the most prominent acolyte of the cosmic horror master
Featuring 22 short stories inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft—including a chiller by World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan
From claustrophobic fear in isolated New England towns to terrifying threats that span the infinite cosmos, the tales herein are fuelled by H. P. Lovecraft's creations. While his horrors originate in a vast cosmos outside of space and time, the terrors they bring strike ordinary humans caught up in conflicts far beyond their control.
This volume offers a who’s who of Lovecraftian authors including:
• Ann K. Schwader (“Pothunters”)
• Darrell Schweitzer (“The Girl in the Attic”)
• Jonathan Thomas (“The Once and Future Waite”)
• Lynne Jamneck (“Oude Goden”)
• William F. Nolan (“Carnivorous”)
• Ashley Dioses (“On a Dreamland’s Moon”)
• Aaron Bittner (“Teshtigo Creek”)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan (“Ex Libris”)
• Mark Howard Jones (“You Shadows That in Darkness Dwell”)
Plus 13 others by Adam Bolivar, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tom Lynch, Donald Tyson, Don Webb, David Hambling, K.A. Opperman, W.H. Pugmire, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jason V Brock, Stephen Woodworth, and D.L. Myers.
Gathered together by S. T. Joshi—the biographer and leading authority on H.P. Lovecraft—this final volume of Black Wings of Cthulhu is certain to thrill.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The 20 short stories in Lovecraft scholar Joshi's fifth Black Wings anthology include some imaginative variations on familiar themes of mind-bending encounters with cosmic horrors. Nicole Cushing's "Diary of a Sane Man" is especially effective at transforming a comfortable, mundane setting a well-to-do suburban neighborhood into a nightmare realm as an academic goes for his nightly walk during a snowstorm. In Sam Gafford's "Casting Fractals," a journalist's study of a dead colleague's notes, which at first appear to be mere ravings, allows him to glimpse the hidden force behind the major tragic events of the mid-20th century, from political assassinations to earthquakes and other natural disasters. And Stoker Award winner Caitl n R. Kiernan demonstrates the effectiveness of incremental, subtle suggestion in "Far from Any Shore," about the terrifying aftermath of the unearthing of an artifact. Though there are some clunky attempts at mimicking Lovecraft's sometimes baroque prose ("Stepping out of my hateful vehicle I spoke the remembered formula, pushing spectral language into the hungry wind"), most entries are high quality. Fans of Lovecraft pastiches will be satisfied.
