num_pages: 270
description: Following up on the success of A Mountain Walked this volume presents another dozen tales of the Cthulhu Mythos that show how H. P. Lovecrafts motifs conceptions and imagery have affected an entire century of weird writing. Beginning with a delightful parody of Lovecraft written by Edith Miniter in 1921 this anthology features The Red Brain a story of incalculable cosmic horror by Donald Wandrei; The Beast of Averoigne in which Clark Ashton Smith plays a riff on The Dunwich Horror; and C. Hall Thompsons The Will of Claude Ashur an ingenious adaptation of The Thing on the Doorstep. Ramsey Campbell one of the leading weird writers of today has always maintained his Lovecraftian roots and in The Pattern he utilizes Lovecrafts theme of conflict with time to cataclysmic effect. The pioneering Thomas Ligotti (The Sect of the Idiot) draws inspiration from Lovecrafts early tales while Brian McNaughton (Meryphillia) teases out the latent sexuality in Lovecrafts use of ghouls. Caitln R. Kiernans The Peddlers Tale is one of the few successful elaborations of Lovecrafts dreamland stories while Jonathan Thomas uses Lovecrafts native town of Providence for a tale of alien races. This volume contains previously unpublished stories by W. H. Pugmire Mark Samuels and Ray Garton all of which demonstrate their authors skill at fusing Lovecraftian motifs with their own dark vision. All in all The Red Brain is a rich banquet of strangeness that no Lovecraft devotee will want to be without.
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title: The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
publisher: Dark Regions Press