And now, the Volume 2 you've all been waiting for...Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, vol 2.
The short stories within vol. 2 are as follows:
The Shambler From the Stars by Robert Bloch: An eccentric author locates and evil book, and has his friend translate it from Latin. Evil promulgations ensue...
The Haunter in the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft: A followup story to The Shambler From the Stars, this concerns the demise of Robert Blake, an enthusiast of the dark arts who searches an abandoned church which has many evil elements within...
The Shadow from the Steeple by Robert Bloch rounds out the trilogy concerning the previous two stories. A man from Chicago investigates the deaths of Robert Blake, and his chronicler H.P. Lovecraft, blending the lines of fantasy and reality further, making this tale one of remarkable tenability and fright...
The Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch - This tale concerns a 12 year old who is put up at his aunt and uncle's farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Rumors of mythology and sacrificial altars in the woods beyond trouble him. Then one day Aunt and Uncle go off in the night, never to return. The child must face his fears with the postman during a thunderstorm...
Cold Print by J. Ramsey Campbell - a vagrant, who warms himself from the cold outside by visiting a bookstore, and becomes a reader of Lovecraftian stories. He encounters a menacing book dealer, who makes him an offer he cannot refuse...
The Sister City by Brian Lumley - A youth of mysterious deformities and talents comes to realize his true identity and troubles the authorities with his attempt to return to the land what which he might call "home."
Cement Surroundings by Brian Lumley - A professor returns to England after researching many mythical entities and two mysterious orbs. He becomes terrified of both the underground and seismic activity. Following an earthquake, the professor disappears, leaving his poor nephew to sort out the madness...
The Deep Ones by James Wade - A little bit longer story about a team of researchers working with dolphins off the Pacific coast. A strange man from Miskatonic University identifies one of the researchers as being from an old family in Innsmouth on the East Coast and foretells great misfortunes, to which the researchers are at once skeptical, for a time...
The Return of The Lloigor by Colin Wilson - a lengthy (as these short stories go) tale of an English professor who finds a text and interprets it to be the Necronomicon. Later he learns that Lovecraft mentioned this in his "fiction" but that these stories seem to match up with legends of Wales, where he finds the stories coming to life, but few belief the fantastical findings...
And there you have it, the last of the Cthulu Mythos stories in my two volume set. If you're up for weird tales, these are good and weird.
1 comment:
Interesting, very interesting. That Shadow from the Steeple seems interesting, the blending of reality and fiction into...something. Something cool, anyway. Or disturbing. I'm also quite wary of such a story, especially since you continue to insist that Cthulhu lives in my basement. He doesn't!
I hope. Wait, what was that noise...
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