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The Book of Cthulhu
Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft
edited by
Ross E. Lockhart
Night Shade Books
San Francisco
The Book of Cthulhu © 2011 by Ross E. Lockhart
This edition of The Book of Cthulhu
© 2011 by Night Shade Books
Cover illustration © 2011 by Obrotowy
Cover design by Claudia Noble
Interior layout and design by Amy Popovich
Edited by Ross E. Lockhart
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An extension of this copyright page appears on pages 527–529
First Edition
Printed in Canada
ISBN: 978-1-59780-232-1
eISBN: 978-1-59780-355-7
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amid the black seas of infinity

Introduction
In 1928, a young man, Conan creator Robert E. Howard, wrote a fan letter to Weird Tales magazine praising H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” which had recently appeared in the magazine’s pages. Howard described the story as “a masterpiece,” which he was “sure will live as one of the highest achievements in literature.”
Since then, countless young men and women have discovered the Cthulhu Mythos cycle, and have come to the same conclusion. These stories, interlinked tales of tentacles, madness, and terror created by Lovecraft, but expanded upon by his contemporaries and correspondents—the so-called “Lovecraft Circle”—are more than just simple supernatural tales, they are literature, of the highest order, with complex themes (sanity’s fragility, existential angst, questionable parentage, fate, decadence, detachment, and deterioration, to name a few), precise writing style, intricate, layered storytelling… and monsters. Some of the best known monsters in modern fiction.
Lovecraft’s impeccable storytelling—often filtered through his collaborators and “disciples”—has inspired many to pen their own Mythos tales, and the Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own, as further posthumous collaborations continue to expand the scope, scale, and ultimate interpretation of what is perhaps the most diverse shared fictional universe ever created.
Today, the Cthulhu Mythos cycle includes tales by some of the most prodigious writers of the twentieth century… and so far, some of the most astounding writers of the twenty-first century as well. Mythos fiction has become one of the major cultural memes of our era—everybody knows what Cthulhu looks like, even if they haven’t read Lovecraft. And it would seem that Cthulhu and his minions are everywhere, not just bo ............

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