Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions
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Cover of Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions | |
| Author | Darrell Schweitzer |
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| Illustrator | Tim Kirk |
| Cover artist | Tim Kirk |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy short stories |
| Publisher | Fedogan & Bremer |
Publication date | 2015 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | v, 276 pp |
| ISBN | 9781878252753 |
| OCLC | 914216916 |
Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions is a collection of dark fantasy and horror short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Fedogan & Bremer in September 2015.[1][2]
The collection consists of twenty-two stories of the author, two of them collaborative, together with an introduction by Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi.[1] The pieces were originally published from 1994-2015 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.[2]
Contents
- "Introduction" (S. T. Joshi)
- "Envy, the Gardens of Ynath, and the Sin of Cain" (from Interzone no. 178, April 2002)
- "Hanged Man and Ghost" (from The Weird Fiction Review no. 5, November 2014)
- "Stragglers from Carrhae" (from World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories, August 2014)
- "The Eater of Hours" (from Allen K's Inhuman Magazine no. 4, Summer 2009)
- "The Runners Beyond the Wall" (from Weird Tales v. 66, no. 4, Fall 2012)
- "On the Eastbound Train" (from Madness on the Orient Express, December 2014)
- "Howling in the Dark" (from Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, April 2010)
- "Sometimes You Have to Shout about It" (from H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror no. 4, Spring-Summer 2007)
- "The Head Shop in Arkham"
- "Innsmouth Idyll" (from Dead But Dreaming 2, June 2011)
- "Class Reunion" (from Dead But Dreaming 2, June 2011)
- "Why We Do It" (from Dead But Dreaming, March 2002)
- "The Warm" (from The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1, October 2014)
- "Spiderwebs in the Dark" (from Black Wings of Cthulhu 3, March 2015)
- "The Corpse Detective"
- "Jimmy Bunny" (from Shock Totem 5: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, October 2012)
- "The Last of the Black Wind"
- "In Old Commoriom" (from Deepest, Darkest Eden: New Tales of Hyperborea, August 2013)
- "The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with a Hundred Knives" (from Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, June 2012)
- "The Scroll of the Worm" (from The Horror Express no. 2, June 2004) (with Jason Van Hollander)
- "Those of the Air" (from Cthulhu's Heirs: Tales of the Mythos for the New Millennium, March 1994) (with Jason Van Hollander)
- "Ghost Dancing" (from Cthulhu's Reign, April 2010)
References
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