num_pages: 394
description: C.J. Henderson is widely regarded as the father of hardboiled occult detective fiction.His private eyes went head-to-head with the horrors of the Lovecraftian mindscape. Their weapons were fist cuffs .45s wise-cracks and harsh language. On occasions they got knocked down by a tentacle or two but they got back up again bruised and battered perhaps and they kept on fighting. They were the first Cthulhu DetectivesIn July 2014 C.J. Henderson tragically lost his battle with cancer but his influence has not dwindled and many writers today have followed in his tradition. Cthulhu Detective brings together 12 tales of the new occult investigators written by many of todays best known Cthulhu Mythos authors. Spies soldiers private eyes bounty-hunters thieves adventurers and police officers all taking on the monsters and madmen in an uncaring universe.Cthulhu Detective features fiction from C.J. Henderson Glynn Owen Barrass David Conyers Shane Jiraiya Cummings Cody Goodfellow David Kernot William Meikle Konstantine Paradias Robert M. Price Peter Rawlik Brian M. Sammons Ron Shiflet and Jeffrey Thomas with an introduction from Robert M. Price. All earns from this anthology go to support C.J.s family.Included in this collection is a never before published C.J. novella The Temporal Deception co-written with David Conyers.
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title: Cthulhu Detective: A C.J. Henderson Tribute Anthology
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