New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
9 best books like New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (Paula Guran): Mysteries of the Worm: Twenty Cthulhu Mythos Tales by Robert Bloch, The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Lovecraft Unbound, The White People and Other Weird Stories, The Book of Cthulhu, The Horror in the Museum & Other Revisions, The Private Life of Elder Things
Robert Bloch has become one with his fictional counterpart Ludvig Prinn: future generations of readers will know him as an eldritch name hovering over a body of nightmare texts. To know them will be to know him. And thus we have decided to release a new and expanded third edition of Robert Bloch’s Mysteries...
| Author | John Pelan |
| ISBN | 0345449266 |
Descend to the depths of primal horror with this chilling collection of original stories drawn from H. P. Lovecraft’s shocking, terrifying, and eerily prescient Cthulhu Mythos. In twenty-one dark visions, a host of outstanding contemporary writers tap into our innermost fears, with tales set...
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
| Author | Laird Barron |
| ISBN | 1597800880 |
There is a great deal about Laird Barron's writing that I like very much. Unlike Stephen King (whose descriptive passages often resemble an exhaustive catalog of the contents of someone's pockets or purse), Barron has a poet's eye for detail and the knack for choosing the right phrase in order to...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0143107763 |
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1595821465 |
The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries:...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 0143105590 |
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is...
| Author | Ross E. Lockhart |
| ISBN | 1597802328 |
The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century's most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own....
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0870540408 |
H. P. Lovecraft, the creator of Cthulhu Mythos, is the acknowledged modern master of the macabre, but he also worked with many younger pulp writers. Collected here are a dozen of their experiments in arcane terror, unearthly horror, and inhuman evil. Adding his inimitable touch, Lovecraft revised...
The Private Life of Elder Things
| Author | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| ISBN | 1911034022 |
From the wastes of the sea to the shadows of our own cities, we are not alone. But what happens where the human world touches the domain of races ancient and alien? Museum curators, surveyors, police officers, archaeologists, mathematicians; from derelict buildings to country houses to the London...
