Tales of tentacles, terror, and madness from the publisher who brought you Wastelands, The Living Dead, and Brave New Worlds First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu mythos encompass 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 twenty-seven sanity-shattering stories of cosmic terror. Featuring fiction by many of today†s masters of the menacing, macabre, and monstrous, including Laird Barron, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan, and Thomas Ligotti, The Book of Cthulhu goes where no collection of Cthulhu mythos tales has gone before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond! Do you dare open The Book of Cthulhu? Do you dare heed the call?
Biografie (Joe R. Lansdale)
Joe R. Lansdale hat zahlreiche Romane und Stories in den Genres Krimi, Horror und Western verfaßt und zahlreiche Anthologien herausgegeben. Er wurde mit dem British Fantasy Award, dem American Mystery Award, dem Edgar Award und sechsmal mit dem Bram Stoker Award ausgezeichnet. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Biografie (Charles Stross)
Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full-time.