Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Six)

The sixth volume in the critically acclaimed series of Lovecraftian horror anthologies by the most prominent acolyte of the cosmic horror master

Featuring 22 short stories inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft—including a chiller by World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan

From claustrophobic fear in isolated New England towns to terrifying threats that span the infinite cosmos, the tales herein are fuelled by H. P. Lovecraft's creations. While his horrors originate in a vast cosmos outside of space and time, the terrors they bring strike ordinary humans caught up in conflicts far beyond their control.

This volume offers a who’s who of Lovecraftian authors including:
 
• Ann K. Schwader (“Pothunters”)
• Darrell Schweitzer (“The Girl in the Attic”)
• Jonathan Thomas (“The Once and Future Waite”)
• Lynne Jamneck (“Oude Goden”)
• William F. Nolan (“Carnivorous”)
• Ashley Dioses (“On a Dreamland’s Moon”)
• Aaron Bittner (“Teshtigo Creek”)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan (“Ex Libris”)
• Mark Howard Jones (“You Shadows That in Darkness Dwell”)
 
Plus 13 others by Adam Bolivar, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tom Lynch, Donald Tyson, Don Webb, David Hambling, K.A. Opperman, W.H. Pugmire, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jason V Brock, Stephen Woodworth, and D.L. Myers.
 
Gathered together by S. T. Joshi—the biographer and leading authority on H.P. Lovecraft—this final volume of Black Wings of Cthulhu is certain to thrill.S. T. Joshi is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and others. He has edited the definitive restored editions of the works of Lovecraft, several annotated editions of Bierce and Mencken, and has written such critical studies as The Modern Weird Tale. His biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life won the Horror Writer Association's Stoker Award for best-non fiction.