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Series · 4 books · 1993-2006

Books in series

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#1

The Hastur Cycle

13 Horror Tales Defining Hastur, the King in Yellow, Yuggoth, and the Dread City of Carcosa

1993

The stories in this book evoke a tracery of evil rarely rivaled in horror writing. They represent the whole evolving trajectory of such notions as Hastur, the King in Yellow, Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, the Black Stone, Yuggoth, and the Lake of Hali. A succession of writers from Ambrose Bierce to Ramsey Campbell and Karl Edward Wagner have explored and embellished these concepts so that the sum of the tales has become an evocative tapestry of hypnotic dread and terror, a mythology distinct from yet overlapping the Cthulhu Mythos. Here for the first time is a comprehensive collection of all the relevant tales.
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#4

The Azathoth Cycle

Tales of the Blind Idiot God

1995

Short stories by Edward Pickman Derby, Peter Cannon, Stephen M. Rainey, Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti, Richard L. Tierney, Gary Myers, Donald R. Burleson, C.J. Henderson, Stephen Studach, John Glasby, Allen Mackey and Robert M. Price. Contents: The Mad God: An Introduction to The Azathoth Cycle by Robert M. Price Azathoth by Edward Pickman Derby Azathoth in Arkham by Peter Cannon The Revenge of Azathoth by Peter Cannon The Pit of the Shoggoths by Stephen Mark Rainey Hydra by Henry Kuttner The Madness Out of Time by Lin Carter The Insects from Shaggai by Ramsey Campbell The Sect of the Idiot by Thomas Ligotti The Throne of Achamoth by Robert M. Price and Richard L. Tierney The Last Night of Earth by Gary Myers The Daemon-Sultan by Donald R. Burleson. Idiot Savant by C.J. Henderson The Space of Madness by Stephen Studach The Nameless Tower by John Glasby The Plague Jar by Allen Mackey The Old Ones’ Promise of Eternal Life by Robert M. Price
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#12

The Innsmouth Cycle

The Taint of the Deep Ones

1997

Book by Lovecraft, H. P.
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The Complete Pegāna

2006

Lord Dunsany is best known as a favorite of other writers—such as H. P. Lovecraft, who counted him second only to Edgar Allan Poe as an influence on his work. Lovecraft readers will be interested to know that two ideas Lovecraft got from Dunsany were (1) an artificial pantheon of gods and other entities (Dunsany's Pegāna Mythos predates Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos) and (2) a cosmic vision of man as living on a tiny island of order amid a vast and chaotic universe. Perhaps, as S. T. Joshi writes in the introduction to this collection, "It is now time to appreciate Dunsany in his own right as a master fantasist whose prodigal imagination was equaled by few, whose prose style was a model of affecting simplicity, and whose bold philosophical vision remains challenging to the present day." This edition includes the complete stories from The Gods of Pegāna (1905) and Time and the Gods (1906), plus three other stories belonging to the Pegāna cycle. \—Fiona Webster Contents: The Gods of Pegāna (1905) Of Skarl the Drummer (1905) Of the Making of the Worlds (1905) Of the Game of the Gods (1905) The Chaunt of the Gods (1905) The Sayings of Kib (1905) Concerning Sish (1905) The Sayings of Slid (1905) The Deeds of Mung (1905) The Chaunt of the Priests (1905) The Sayings of Limpang-Tung (1905) Of Yoharneth-Lahai (1905) Of Roon, the God of Going (1905) The Revolt of the Home Gods (1905) Of Dorozhand (1905) The Eye in the Waste (1905) Of the Thing That Is neither God nor Beast (1905) Yonath the Prophet (1905) Yug the Prophet (1905) Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet (1905) Kabok the Prophet (1905) Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea (1905) Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith (1905) Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec (1905) Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak (1905) Pegāna (1905) The Sayings of Imbaun (1905) Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King (1905) Of Ood (1905) The River (1905) The Bird of Doom and the End (1905) Time and the Gods (1906) The Coming of the Sea (1906) A Legend of the Dawn (1906) The Vengeance of Men (1906) When the Gods Slept (1906) The King That Was Not (1906) The Cave of Kai (1906) The Sorrow of Search (1906) The Men of Yarnith (1906) For the Honour of the Gods (1906) Night and Morning (1906) Usury (1906) Mlideen (1906) The Secret of the Gods (1906) The South Wind (1906) In the Land of Time (1906) The Relenting of Sarnidac (1906) The Jest of the Gods (1906) The Dreams of a Prophet (1906) The Journey of the King (1906) Beyond the Fields We Know (1919) essay Idle Days on the Yann (1910) A Shop in Go-by Street (1912) The Avenger of Perdóndaris (1912)

Authors

H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
Author · 498 books

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. — Wikipedia

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Author · 140 books

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic, with his motto "nothing matters" – earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." Despite his reputation as a searing critic, however, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. This style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, the theme of war, and impossible events. Bierce disappeared in December 1913 at the age of 71. He is believed to have traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. Despite an abundance of theories, Bierce's ultimate fate remains a mystery. He wrote in one of his final letters: "Good-bye. If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags, please know that I think it is a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico—ah, that is euthanasia!"

Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers
Author · 40 books

Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer. Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird short stories, connected by the theme of the fictitious drama The King in Yellow, which drives those who read it insane. Chambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons and The Tree of Heaven, but neither earned him such success as The King in Yellow. Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines. After 1924 he devoted himself solely to writing historical fiction. Chambers for several years made Broadalbin his summer home. Some of his novels touch upon colonial life in Broadalbin and Johnstown. On July 12, 1898, he married Elsa Vaughn Moller (1882-1939). They had a son, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers (later calling himself Robert Husted Chambers) who also gained some fame as an author. Chambers died at his home in the village of Broadalbin, New York, on December 16th 1933.

James Blish
James Blish
Author · 52 books

James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. In the late 1930's to the early 1940's, Blish was a member of the Futurians. Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. He is credited with coining the term gas giant, in the story "Solar Plexus" as it appeared in the anthology Beyond Human Ken, edited by Judith Merril. (The story was originally published in 1941, but that version did not contain the term; Blish apparently added it in a rewrite done for the anthology, which was first published in 1952.) Blish was married to the literary agent Virginia Kidd from 1947 to 1963. From 1962 to 1968, he worked for the Tobacco Institute. Between 1967 and his death from lung cancer in 1975, Blish became the first author to write short story collections based upon the classic TV series Star Trek. In total, Blish wrote 11 volumes of short stories adapted from episodes of the 1960s TV series, as well as an original novel, Spock Must Die! in 1970 — the first original novel for adult readers based upon the series (since then hundreds more have been published). He died midway through writing Star Trek 12; his wife, J.A. Lawrence, completed the book, and later completed the adaptations in the volume Mudd's Angels. Blish lived in Milford, Pennsylvania at Arrowhead until the mid-1960s. In 1968, Blish emigrated to England, and lived in Oxford until his death in 1975. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, near the grave of Kenneth Grahame. His name in Greek is Τζέημς Μπλις"

Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell
Author · 99 books
Ramsey Campbell is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today," while S. T. Joshi has said that "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."
James Wade
Author · 1 books

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name For other authors of this name, see: James Wade - Editor, Publishing James Wade - Historical Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany
Author · 54 books
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes hundreds of short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, he lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, received an honourary doctorate from Trinity College, and died in Dublin.
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