A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

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. CONTENTS The House of the Worm© 1933 Mearle Prout Far Below © 1939 Robert Barbour Johnson Spawn of the Green Abyss © 1946 C. Hall Thompson The Deep Ones © 1969 James Wade The Franklyn Paragraphs © 1973 by Ramsey Campbell. Where Yidhra Walks © 1976 Walter C. DeBill, Jr. Black Man with a Horn © 1980 T. E. D. Klein. The Last Feast of Harlequin © 1990 Thomas Ligotti. Only the End of the World Again © 1994 Neil Gaiman. Mandelbrot Moldrot © 1996 Lois H. Gresh. The Black Brat of Dunwich © 1997, 2002 Stanley C. Sargent. The Phantom of Beguilement © 2006 W. H. Pugmire. The Man with the Horn © 2014 Jason V Brock. . . . Hungry . . . Rats © 2014 Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Virgin’s Island © 2014 Donald Tyson. In the Shadow of Swords © 2014 Cody Goodfellow. Mobymart After Midnight © 2014 Jonathan Thomas. Beneath the Beardmore © 2014 Michael Shea. A Gentleman from Mexico © 2014 Mark Samuels. John Four © 2014 Caitlín R. Kiernan. Sigma Octantis © 2014 Rhys Hughes. [Anasazi] © 2014 Gemma Files. The Wreck of the Aurora © 2014 Patrick McGrath. Beneath the Beardmore © 2014 Michael Shea 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 Lovecrafts 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 Prouts The House of the Worm and Robert Barbour Johnsons Far Below, from the pages of Weird Tales, the anthology moves on to James Wades novella The Deep Ones and Ramsey Campbells 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. The book includes an array of original stories by such leading authors of Lovecraftian fiction as Caitln R. Kiernan, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Donald Tyson, Cody Goodfellow, and Michael Shea. Gemma Files contributes a richly textured novella, while Jonathan Thomas offers a story full of his distinctive melding of horror and satire. A Mountain Walked is chock-full of stories old and new that highlight the endless variations that can be played on H. P. Lovecrafts signature creation. S. T. Joshi is the leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft. He is the author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft and the editor of the Black Wings series of Lovecraftian fiction. He edits the Lovecraft Annual and the Weird Fiction Review.