The Madness of Cthulhu Anthology (Volume One): 1 (42 page)
Lois H. Gresh
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of twenty-seven books and sixty short stories. She has a million books in print in twenty-two languages. Current books include
Eldritch Revolutions
(Chaosium, 2011),
The Divergent Companion
(St. Martin’s Press, 2014), and the anthologies
Dark Fusions
(PS Publishing, 2013) and
Innsmouth Nightmares
(PS Publishing, 2015). Gresh has received nominations for the Bram Stoker Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for her work.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
is the author of several novels, including
The Red Tree
(Roc, 2010) and
The Drowning Girl: A Memoir
(Roc, 2012). Her short fiction has been collected in several volumes, including
A Is for Alien
(2009),
The Ammonite Violin and Others
(2010),
Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume 1
(2011),
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
(2012), and the forthcoming
The Ape’s Wife and Others
(all from Subterranean Press). She is currently scripting a critically acclaimed series for Dark Horse Presents,
Alabaster
, based on her Darcy Flammarion character, and working on her next novel. She was recently hailed by the
New York Times
as “one of our essential writers of dark fiction.”
J. C. Koch
is scared by horror stories but writes them anyway. They’ve appeared in
Arkham Tales
,
Necrotic Tissue
,
Penumbra, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
, and
A Dark Phantasique
. Koch also likes to do scary things like pay attention to politics, keep up with the Kardashians, and play the stock market. However, she tends to stay hidden under the bed, letting more of the terrors of the mind bleed onto the page, metaphorically and literally.
Jonathan Maberry
is a
New York Times
bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and freelancer for Marvel Comics. His novels include
Patient Zero
(Gollancz, 2009),
Extinction Machine
(St. Martin’s Press, 2013),
Fire and Ash
(Simon & Schuster, 2013), and many others. His award-winning teen novel,
Rot & Ruin
(Simon & Schuster, 2010), is now in development for film. Since 1978 he has sold more than twelve hundred magazine feature articles and three thousand columns, plays, greeting cards, song lyrics, and poetry. He is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse and co-founder of The Liars Club. Maberry lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Sara.
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
is the author of three collections,
Blood Will Have Its Season
(2009),
SIN & ashes
(2010), and
Portraits of Ruin
(2012), all published by Hippocampus Press, and the novel
The Orphan Palace
(Chomu Press, 2011). He has written many short stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Ellen Datlow’s
Best Horror of the Year
and S. T. Joshi’s
Black Wings.
He edited
A Season in Carcosa
(2012) and
The Grimscribe’s Puppets
(2013) for Miskatonic River Press.
Darrell Schweitzer
is the author of
The Shattered Goddess
(Donning/Starblaze, 1983),
The White Isle
(Owlswick Press, 1989), and
The Mask of the Sorcerer
(New English Library, 1995), in addition to about three hundred published short stories, many of which, of late, have taken a decidedly Lovecraftian turn. He appears in the first three
Black Wings
volumes (PS Publishing and Titan). He is a four-time World Fantasy Award nominee and one-time winner, and was for nineteen years an editor of
Weird Tales.
He has edited two anthologies of Lovecraftian fiction,
Cthulhu’s Reign
(DAW, 2010) and
That Is Not Dead
(PS, 2014).
Michael Shea
was born in Culver City, California, directly across the street from the colossal wall of the MGM Studios. In a flophouse in Juneau, Alaska, at the age of twenty-two he discovered the world of heroic fantasy in a battered copy of Jack Vance’s
The Eyes of the Overworld
, and he devoted himself to SF and fantasy to the end of his life. He was a multiple World Fantasy Award winner and nominee, as well as a British Fantasy Society and Hugo nominee. He died on February 16, 2014, at his home in northern California and is survived by his wife, the artist Linda Cecere Shea, and their children, Jake and Della.
John Shirley
is the author of the Bram Stoker Award–winning story collection
Black Butterflies
(Ziesing, 1998). He was co-screenwriter of the hit film
The Crow
(1994) and recently wrote
The Crow: Death and Rebirth
(2013) for IDW comics. He is also a lyricist for the Blue Öyster Cult, with an album of his own recordings,
Broken Mirror Glass
, now out from Black October Records. His newest novel is
Everything Is Broken
(Prime, 2012), and his new story collection is
In Extremis: The Most Extreme Stories of John Shirley
(Underland Press, 2011).
Robert Silverberg
has been a professional writer since 1955. He has written more than a hundred novels and an uncountable number of short stories. Among his best-known books are
Nightwings
(Avon, 1969),
The Book of Skulls
(Scribner’s, 1971),
Dying Inside
(Scribner’s, 1972), and
Lord Valentine’s Castle
(Harper & Row, 1980), and his shorter works include “Passengers” (1968), “Born with the Dead” (1974), “Sailing to Byzantium” (1985) and numerous others. He is a many-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, and in 2004 the Science Fiction Writers of America named him a Grand Master. He and his wife, Karen Haber, live in the San Francisco area.
William Browning Spencer
is the author of the innovative Lovecraftian novel
Résumé with Monsters
(White Wolf, 1995) as well as the novels
Maybe I’ll Call Anna
(Permanent Press, 1990),
Zod Wollop
(St. Martin’s Press, 1995), and
Irrational Fears
(White Wolf, 1998) and the short-story collections
The Return of Count Electric and Other Stories
(Permanent Press, 1993) and
The Ocean and All Its Devices
(Subterranean Press, 2006).
Melanie Tem
’s work has received the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards and a nomination for the Shirley Jackson Award. She has published numerous short stories, eleven solo novels, two collaborative novels with Nancy Holder, and two with her husband, Steve Rasnic Tem. She is also a published poet, an oral storyteller, and a playwright. Her stories have recently appeared in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
and the anthologies
Supernatural Noir
,
Shivers VI
,
Portents
,
Blood and Other Cravings
, and
Werewolves and Shapeshifters.
The Tems live in Denver. They have four children and four granddaughters.
Jonathan Thomas
was born in Providence, R.I., and has been married since 1991 to artist and country singer Angel Dean. His books include
Stories from the Big Black House
(Radio Void, 1992),
The Color over Occam
(Arcane Wisdom, 2012), and from Hippocampus Press,
Midnight Call
(2008),
Tempting Providence
(2010), and
Thirteen Conjurations
(2013). Since 2010, his short fiction has appeared in
Black Wings I–III
(PS Publishing and Titan),
A Mountain Walked
(Centipede Press),
Nameless
, and
Weird Fiction Review
.
K. M. Tonso
grew up in a small town on the coast of Oregon and probably should have stayed there, but did not. Currently living in the much drier Southwest, the author produces novels and short stories in a variety of genres and lengths, and occasionally finds them well-received. A significant other and two dogs round out the family.
Harry Turtledove
is an escaped Byzantine historian who writes science fiction (most often, alternate history), fantasy, and historical fiction. His books include
The Guns of the South
(Ballantine, 1992),
Ruled Britannia
(New American Library, 2002), and
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
(New American Library, 2003). He has won a Hugo and two Sidewise Awards. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fellow writer Laura Frankos. They have three daughters.
Donald Tyson
is a Canadian writer of fiction and nonfiction dealing with all aspects of the Western esoteric tradition. He is the author of
Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred
(2004),
Grimoire of the Necronomicon
(2008),
The Necronomicon Tarot
(2007), and
The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon
(2010), as well as a biography of Lovecraft titled
The Dreamworld of H. P. Lovecraft
(2010) and the novel
Alhazred
(2006), all of which were published by Llewellyn Publications.
ALSO AVAILABLE FROM TITAN BOOKS
BLACK WINGS OF CTHULHU
TWENTY-ONE TALES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR
EDITED BY S. T. JOSHI
S. T. Joshi—the twenty-first century’s preeminent expert on all things Lovecraftian—gathers twenty-one of the master’s greatest modern acolytes, including Caitlín R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Brian Stableford, Nicholas Royle, Darrell Schweitzer and W. H. Pugmire, each of whom serves up a new masterpiece of cosmic terror that delves deep into the human psyche to horrify and disturb.
“[An] exceptional set of original horror tales … [Black Wings] will delight even horror fans completely unfamiliar with Lovecraft.”
Booklist
“Cumulatively creepy studies of Lovecraft-style locales where inexplicable supernatural phenomena suggest an otherworldly dimension intersecting our own.”
Publishers Weekly
“Joshi’s tribute proves there’s still plenty of life in the Elder Gods yet—and plenty of highly talented writers penning dark fiction these days.”
Fantasy Magazine
BLACK WINGS OF CTHULHU 2
EIGHTEEN TALES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR
EDITED BY S. T. JOSHI
In the second volume of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series, S. T. Joshi—the world’s foremost Lovecraft scholar—has assembled eighteen more brand-new and imaginative horror tales, inspired by the twentieth century’s greatest writer of the supernatural, H. P. Lovecraft. Delivering this feast of horror are John Shirley, Tom Fletcher, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Jonathan Thomas, Nick Mamatas, Richard Gavin, Melanie Tem, John Langan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Don Webb, Darrell Schweitzer, Nicholas Royle, Steve Rasnic Tem, Brian Evenson, Rick Dakan, Donald Tyson, Jason V. Brock, and Chet Williamson.
“[A] rich feast of terror inspired by the twentieth century’s greatest writer of the supernatural.” SF Signal
“[E]very story in this collection is outstanding … This is a superb anthology not only for Lovecraft fans, but those appreciate true Gothic horror.” Horror Novel Reviews
“All of the stories are very well-written and lovingly steeped in Lovecraft lore.” Geeks of Doom
SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH
EDITED BY STEPHEN JONES
Under the unblinking eye of World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones, sixteen of the finest modern authors, including Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley contribute stories to the canon of Cthulhu. Also featuring the story that started it all, by the master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft.
“A fine assembly of talented writers… A superb anthology for Lovecraft fans.”
Science Fiction Chronicle
“Horror abounds in
Shadows Over Innsmouth
.”
Publishers Weekly
“Good, slimy fun… There are a number of genuinely frightening pieces here.”
San Francisco Chronicle
WEIRD SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH
EDITED BY STEPHEN JONES
Including the unpublished early draft of ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth,’ by H. P. Lovecraft, this extraordinary volume features twelve stories by some of the world’s most prominent Lovecraftian authors, including Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, John Glasby, Paul McAuley, Steve Rasnic Tem, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Brian Lumley, Basil Copper, Hugh B. Cave, and Richard Lupoff.
“H. P. Lovecraft fans will revel in this fine follow-up to Jones’
Shadows Over Innsmouth
, a World Fantasy finalist.”
Publishers Weekly
“Jones has brought together some of the industry’s top-notch authors… strongly recommended for Mythos fans.” Hellnotes
“Fascinating and recommended.”
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