cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38009844
Following up on the success of A Mountain Walked, this volume presents another dozen tales of the Cthulhu Mythos that show how H. P. Lovecraft’s motifs, conceptions, and imagery have affected an entire century of weird writing. Beginning with a delightful parody of Lovecraft written by Edith Miniter in 1921, this anthology features “The Red Brain,” a story of incalculable cosmic horror by Donald Wandrei; “The Beast of Averoigne,” in which Clark Ashton Smith plays a riff on “The Dunwich Horror”; and C. Hall Thompson’s “The Will of Claude Ashur,” an ingenious adaptation of “The Thing on the Doorstep.”
Contents
- "Introduction" by S. T. Joshi
- "Falco Ossifracus: by Mr. Goodguile" by Edith Miniter
- "The Red Brain" by Donald Wandrei
- "The Beast of Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith
- "The Will of Claude Ashur" by C. Hall Thompson
- "The Pattern" by Ramsey Campbell
- "The Sect of the Idiot" by Thomas Ligotti
- "Meryphillia" by Brian McNaughton
- "The Peddler's Tale; or, Isobel's Revenge" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- "Integrity" by Jonathan Thomas
- "Pickman's Lazarus" by W. H. Pugmire
- "The Crimson Fog" by Mark Samuels
- "Misanthrope" by Ray Garton
Did you ever see the re-edited Lovecraft set he did for Arkham House?
They found all of Lovecraft's original typescripts at Brown University, and when Joshi compared them to the Weird Tales reprints we'd all been reading for years, he found whole passages had been cut out by the magazine to make room for advertising and what not.
So in the late 80s they started re-publishing them all:
Great stuff. By all means feel free to post it about on !lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world i'm keeping a meta-post with all the link of the works i can find here