New Cthulhu 2 More Recent Weird Author:Paula Guran (Editor) Many of the best weird fiction writers (and creators in most other media) have been profoundly influenced by the genre and the mythos H.P. Lovecraft created eight decades ago. Lovecraft's themes of cosmic indifference, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history - written with a pervasive atmosphere of unexplainable dread - are mo... more »re relevant than ever as we explore the mysteries of a universe in which our planet is infinitesimal and climatic change is overwhelming it.
A few years ago, New Cthulhu : The Recent Weird presented some of the best of this new Lovecraftian fiction from the first decade of the twenty-first century. Now, New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird brings you more eldritch tales and even fresher fiction inspired by Lovecraft.
Introduction / Paula Guran --
The Same Deep Waters As You / Brian Hodge --
Mysterium Tremendum / Laird Barron --
The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings / Caitlin R. Kiernan --
Bloom / John Langan --
At Home with Azathoth / John Shirley --
The Library of Earth / Ruthanna Emrys --
Necrotic Cove / Lois H. Gresh --
On Ice / Simon Strantzas --
The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette --
All My Love, A Fishhook / Helen Marshall --
The Doom That Came to Devil Reef / Don Webb --
Momma Durtt / Michael Shea --
They Smell of Thunder / W. H. Pugmire --
The Song of Sighs / Angela Slatter --
Fishwife / Carrie Vaughn --
In the House of the Hummingbirds / Silvia Moreno-Garcia --
Who Looks Back? / Kyla Ward --
Equoid / Charles Stross --
The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft / Marc Laidlaw« less