Dark Gods

Dark Gods is a collection of Lovecraftian novellas by T. E. D. Klein, published by Viking in 1985. It comprised three previously published stories by Klein, along with the original "Nadelman's God."
A review on Signal Horizon calls the collection "a missing link between where horror was and where it is today...pushing the genre to new expanses by exhuming the old and refracting it through a new lens."Signal Horizon, "Book Review: Reading a White Whale, Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein," by Carson Winter, November 5, 2019. Caitlin R. Kiernan credits reading Dark Gods, along with Klein's novel The Ceremonies, with rekindling their youthful fascination with the Cthulhu Mythos.Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales, "Lovecraft and I," Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press, 2018).
Klein points out in an author's note to the PS Publishing edition (2021) that three of the four stories are set in New York City, "with the fourth an evening's drive away." As justification, he quotes novelist John Updike: "The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."Dark Gods, "Author's Note," by T. E. D. Klein (PS Publishing, 2021). 
==Contents==
*"Children of the Kingdom" (1980)
*"Petey" (1979)
*"Black Man with a Horn" (1980) 
*"Nadelman's God" (1985)
==Publication History==
After its initial publication by Viking in hardcover in July 1985, Dark Gods was issued in paperback by Bantam Books in July 1986. A British edition was published by Pan Books in January 1987. PS Publishing reissued the collection as a trade paperback in November 2021.Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Title: Dark Gods."
A German translation was released by Goldmann in 1987 under the title Verschwörung der Götter ("Conspiracy of the Gods").
==External Link==
* Dark Gods at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
==References==
Category:T. E. D. Klein works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Books