The Arkham Detective

The Arkham Detective is a series of Cthulhu Mythos stories by American author and filmmaker Byron Craft. Begun in 2015 with the novella Cthulhu's Minions, it runs to a total of 7 novellas and a short story, with the complete set later released in two collections.
==Premise==
The series involves the protagonist, an Arkham Police Department detective whose name is never revealed, as he investigates cases in his home town, and sometimes in other Lovecraft Country locales, such as Innsmouth and Dunwich. The cases featured in the stories invariably involve the supernatural elements of the Cthulhu Mythos.
==Genesis==
The Arkham Detective was born from the novelisation of an unrealised film script, The Alchemist's Handbook. A group of malevolent creatures dubbed Pilot Demons, which featured in the novelisation, came to be the antagonists of the first of the novellas, Cthulhu's Minions.
==Recurrent Characters==
*The Arkham Detective: a police officer in the Arkham PD's Mythos Division and, later, a private investigator.
*Matthew Bell: the Detective's partner, promoted to Detective Sergeant and put in charge of the Mythos Division after his superior's departure.
*Nora Bishop: the Detective's lover and later wife.
* Allison: the Detective's adoptive daughter.
*Alvin Nash: a former rail busboy, later the Detective's adoptive son.
*The Chief: the perennially-angry head of the Arkham PD.
*Esther Vinebeam: Arkham PD switchboard operator.
*Mrs. Trumble: the Detective's former landlady, later adopted as the family's de facto grandmother.
==Entries==
===Collections===
*The Arkham Detective Collection Volume 1
*The Arkham Detective Collection Volume 2
===Novellas===
*Cthulhu's Minions (2015)
*The Innsmouth Look (2016)
*The Devil Came to Arkham (2017)
*The Dunwich Dungeon (2017)
*Death on the Arkham Express (2019)
*Who Stole the Necronomicon? (2020)
*Arkham After Dark
===Short Stories===
*The Comatose Man (included as a bonus story in The Arkham Detective Collection Volume 2)
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