First published 2015
This collection gathers eighteen contemporary authors who channel H.P. Lovecraft's vision of cosmic indifference and alien terror into modern weird fiction. The stories span from Brian Hodge's aquatic nightmare in "The Same Deep Waters As You" to Charles Stross's disturbing "Equoid" and Marc Laidlaw's "The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft." Authors like Laird Barron, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and John Langan craft tales where characters confront minds invaded by otherworldly forces and witness the horrors embedded in history itself. Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette collaborate on "The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward," while Ruthanna Emrys offers "The Litany of Earth." Each story maintains that signature atmosphere of mounting dread that made Lovecraft's mythos endure for eight decades. The collection reflects how cosmic horror resonates in our current era, as humanity grapples with its infinitesimal place in an vast universe and faces overwhelming planetary changes.
Genres: short-stories, science-fiction, horror, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, thought-provoking
Tropes: cosmic-horror, eldritch-abomination
480 pages · Paperback · Prime Books (Germantown, MD)