Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some gi...

The United States lost the war with itself.Jake Culver was one of the soldiers who figured out he was working for the wrong side, but not before he'd been marked a traitor. Disappearing into the desert, he re-emerged in the newly independent California and built a new life there. Until his secrets caught up with him.Now he's trapped into doing a job for the state, forced to return to the last place he wanted to see again, at least on this side of the border with the Federal...

Strange tales at a strange university. Some quiet horror, some dark humor, and some fantastical slice of life at this storied and magical institution, steeped in the occult and part of the odd town of Arkham. Come visit this fascinating New England university—where science and magic, tradition and experimentation go hand in hand—and the quiet, secretive town on which it relies.More odd tales of campus life at Miskatonic University fromLynne Hardy • Tonya Liburd • S.L. Edwar...

LOS ANGELESTHE EIGHTIESCait MacReady is an ex-punk rocker, having spent her college years bouncing around the underground that was quickly burning out and becoming something more hardcore. She spent time interning with occult mystery hunters running their own ramshackle television show. She became a librarian and book restorer. She became a forger, recreating lost and forbidden volumes of magickal power, all the time never once believing that there was anything to all that ...

Cait MaCready wrote a book, a book that the powerful Queen of No Tomorrows knew about before it was even started and wanted to take for herself. The struggle between them destroyed the Queen and it very nearly destroyed Cait.Six months after, she's sleepwalking through life, trying to convince herself that she's recovered, that she's still alive. But she's hearing voices, not the Queen or the god she tried to call down. Something from the water, something that haunts the edge of sl...

Seven all-new stories from the streets of Hazeland. Stories that resist easy categories, falling between fantastic horror and weird fantasy and strange crimes.A weary and ragged veteran returns to his childhood neighborhood finding it gone but for one house and the ghosts within it need his help.A private detective digs at the secret behind gentrification in downtown and the fabricated and inhuman residents who'ved moved in.A girl at a mysterious block party confron...

FANTASTICALLY WEIRD TALES OF CAMPUS LIFEThis is your first year? Welcome! Oh, you’re going to love it here at Miskatonic. Just . . . be careful. I mean, I’m sure everything will be fine, but you know, things happen. This can be a strange place. You hear stories: people changing and buildings rearranging, ghostly sounds and overly attentive textbooks, odd notions and foul deeds . . . even monsters! Hah. Just stories, right? Sure.Faculty struggling for fundin...

From one of the Grand Masters of Science Fiction comes a collection inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos."[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray BradburyHugo-nominee and sci-fi luminary Henry Kuttner was part of the Lovecraft Circle, submitting plot ideas and draft manuscripts to H.P. Lovecraft himself, and Kuttner played an important role in developing the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the seminal works of the genr...

THE MADNESS GROWSRecognized as Lovecraft’s masterpiece of terror, At the Mountains of Madness hasfor decades inspired dread inhis readers and sparked the imaginations of the most hallowed practitioners of fantastic fiction. Taking the essence of his horrific vision, these modern masters have crafted new tales of the fantastic...Featuring never-before- seen tales byKEVIN J. ANDERSONLAIRD BARRONERIK BEAR AND GREG BEARALAN DE...

Schneider Wrack Was Dead.Until he wasn't. Convicted of a crime he's almost completely sure he didn't commit, executed, reanimated, then pressed into service aboard a vast trawler on the terrible world of Ocean, he was set to spend his afterlife working until his mindless corpse fell apart. But now he's woken up, trapped in a rotting body, arm-deep in the stinking meat and blubber of a sea monster, and he's not happy. It's time for the dead to rise up. From the sten...

There was once a play with the power to drive you mad... or to transport you into the bizarre world of Carcosa, and the King in Yellow. Banned, burned, yet never totally destroyed, the play lives on, eating away the fabric of society and rotting the veneer of civilization...Come and enjoy new visions of the King, expanding and deepening the fragments glimpsed in the award-winning True Detective television series, penned for your delight by a host of master scribes eager to guide you...

Collected here for you, a sampler of stories & poems set in or related to the “Cthulhu Mythos,” as conceived by H.P, Lovecraft, expanded on by the “Lovecraft Circle” and endlessly expanded on by current writers up to the current day. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettDREAMS OF YITH, by Duane W. Rimel (Poem)OUT OF THE AEONS, by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel HealdFISHHEAD, by Irvin S. CobbWHEN CHAUGNAR WAKES, by Frank Belknap Long (Poem)THE MOU...