The New Lovecraft Circle: Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034544406X ISBN 13: 9780345444066

Publisher: Del Rey, 2004

Synopsis

H. P. Lovecraft was the eerily prescient genius who first electrified readers in Weird Tales magazine. His tales changed the face of horror forever and inspired the bloodcurdling offerings of a new generation. These brilliant dark visionaries forge grisly trails through previously uncharted realms of mortal terror.
 
THE PLAIN OF SOUND by Ramsey Campbell: In the beginning they could find no source for the throbbing vibrations; in the end they could find no escape.
THE HORROR ON THE BEACH by Alan Dean Foster: Along the coast of Santa Barbara, the mighty Pacific Ocean can no longer contain—or conceal—an ancient, insatiable evil stirring in its depths.
THE KISS OF BUGG-SHASH by Brian Lumley: It mattered not how innocent the students’ motives seemed; the demon had been summoned, and the price had to be paid—every last red drop of it.
THE FISHERS FROM OUTSIDE by Lin Carter: A man obsessed with unlocking the secrets of a race older than time would not be disappointed—doomed perhaps, devoured possibly, but definitely not disappointed.
 
AND TWENTY-ONE MORE TALES OF FEAR . . .
 
THE STONE ON THE ISLAND by Ramsey Campbell
THE STATEMENT OF ONE JOHN GIBSON by Brian Lumley
DEMONIACAL by David Sutton
THE SLITHERER FROM THE SLIME by H. P. Lowcraft
THE DOOM OF YAKTHOOB by Lin Carter
THE KEEPER OF THE FLAME by Gary Myers
DEAD GIVEAWAY by J. Vernon Shea
THOSE WHO WAIT by James Wade
THE KEEPER OF DARK POINT by John Glasby
THE BLACK MIRROR by John Glasby
I’VE COME TO TALK WITH YOU AGAIN by Karl Edward Wagner
THE HOWLER IN THE DARK by Richard L. Tierney
THE WHISPERERS by Richard A. Lupoff
LIGHTS! CAMERA! SHUB-NIGGURATH! by Richard A. Lupoff
SAUCERS FROM YADDITH by Robert M. Price
VASTARIEN by Thomas Ligotti
THE MADNESS OUT OF SPACE by Peter H. Cannon
ALIAH WARDEN by Roger Johnson
THE LAST SUPPER by Donald R. Burleson
THE CHURCH AT GARLOCK’S BEND by David Kaufman
THE SPHERES BEYOND SOUND (THRENODY) by Mark Rainey

About this title

Review:

Price invokes Susan Sontag on camp, and Jacques Derrida on writing, to support his incisive view of what works and what doesn't work in contemporary Lovecraftian fiction.

The basic idea of a Mythos tale . . . is an interior skeleton like a mammal's, a frame on which to grow . . . It forms the baseline against which the new variations may be measured. It is not a denial of flexibility; it is something to be flexible with.

Preface by Ramsey Campbell, fascinating introduction by Price, beautiful cover art by Gahan Wilson, and 26 tales by Campbell, Lumley, Sutton, Wagner, Tierney, Lupoff, Ligotti, Burleson, Rainey and others. No overlap with previous anthologies.

From the Publisher:

Robert M. Price is one of the most active editors in the field of Lovecraftian horror, compiling on-going anthology series for Chaosium in paperback and Fedogan & Bremer in hard-cover, plus editing two specialty magazines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 034544406X
• ISBN 13: 9780345444066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Price Robert M.