num_pages: 421
description: The stories are legendary the characters unforgettable the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu and the other deities of the Elder Things the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones and Herbert West Reanimator a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound more than twenty of todays most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.Introduction (Lovecraft Unbound) Ellen DatlowThe Crevasse Dale Bailey and Nathan BallingrudThe Office of Doom [Dust Devil] Richard BowesSincerely Petrified Anna TambourThe Din of Celestial Birds (1997) Brian EvensonThe Tenderness of Jackals Amanda DownumSight Unseen Joel LaneCold Water Survival Holly PhillipsCome Lurk With Me and Be My Love William Browning SpencerHouses Under the Sea (2006) Caitln R. KiernanMachines of Concrete Light and Dark Michael CiscoLeng Marc LaidlawIn the Black Mill (1997) Michael ChabonOne Day Soon Lavie TidharCommencement (2001) Joyce Carol OatesVernon Driving Simon Kurt UnsworthRecruiter Michael SheaMarya Nox Gemma FilesMongoose [Boojum] Elizabeth Bear and Sarah MonetteCatch Hell Laird BarronThat of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable Nick Mamatas
language: English
title: Lovecraft Unbound
publisher: Dark Horse Books