A Mountain Walked : Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos ed by S.T. Joshi
H. P. Lovecraft wrote “The Call of Cthulhu” in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if not thousands of authors of weird, fantasy, and science fiction have added their distinctive elaborations on Lovecraft’s basic themes and ideas.
This volume features some of the best Cthulhu Mythos writing over the past century. Beginning with such rare but classic stories as Mearle Prout’s “The House of the Worm” and Robert Barbour Johnson’s “Far Below,” from the pages of Weird Tales, the anthology moves on to James Wade’s novella “The Deep Ones” and Ramsey Campbell’s refreshing riff on the “forbidden book” motif, “The Franklyn Paragraphs.” Acclaimed stories by T. E. D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Neil Gaiman, and W. H. Pugmire are also included.
Table of Contents:
The House of the Worm • (1933) • novelette by Mearle Prout
Far Below • (1939) • short story by Robert Barbour Johnson
Spawn of the Green Abyss • (1946) • novelette by C. Hall Thompson
The Deep Ones • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1969) • novelette by James Wade
The Franklyn Paragraphs • [Severn Valley] • (1973) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
Where Yidhra Walks • (1976) • novelette by Walter C. DeBill, Jr
Black Man with a Horn • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1980) • novelette by T. E. D. Klein
The Last Feast of Harlequin • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1990) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
Only the End of the World Again • (1994) • short story by Neil Gaiman
Mandelbrot Moldrot • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (2012) • novelette by Lois H. Gresh
The Black Brat of Dunwich • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1997) • short story by Stanley C. Sargent
The Phantom of Beguilement • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (2001) • short story by W. H. Pugmire
...Hungry...Rats • (2014) • short fiction by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Virgin's Island • (2014) • short fiction by Donald Tyson
In the Shadow of Swords • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (2014) • novelette by Cody Goodfellow
Mobymart After Midnight • (2013) • short fiction by Jonathan Thomas
A Gentleman from Mexico • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (2007) • short story by Mark Samuels
The Man with the Horn • (2014) • short story by Jason V. Brock
John Four • (2014) • short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Sigma Octantis • (2014) • short story by Rhys Hughes
[Anasazi] • (2014) • short fiction by Gemma Files
The Wreck of the Aurora • (2014) • short fiction by Patrick McGrath
Beneath the Beardmore • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (2014) • short fiction by Michael Shea