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Top Eight non-Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos stories. It was supposed to be ten but some of my books are in the attic and so I only managed eight favourites. The first two are available on line. I suppose a few are not strictly Cthulhu Mythos, but they do have the Mythos Ethos.
A Colder War - Charles Stross
The Cold War meets the Mythos head-on
A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman
Holmes' London as it never was
The Courtyard - Alan Moore
Grimy and grim, with drugs.
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
Otherworldly interactions on an island in the Danube.
Suicide Watch - Arinn Dembo (Dark Theatres)
Nirvana as Mythos.
The Yellow Sign - Robert Chambers
Lugubrious and creepy.
Cold Print - Ramsey Campbell
A warning on second hand bookshops.
The Tsalal - Thomas Ligotti
An occult cult does what it must
Top Eight non-Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos stories. It was supposed to be ten but some of my books are in the attic and so I only managed eight favourites. The first two are available on line. I suppose a few are not strictly Cthulhu Mythos, but they do have the Mythos Ethos.
A Colder War - Charles Stross
The Cold War meets the Mythos head-on
A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman
Holmes' London as it never was
The Courtyard - Alan Moore
Grimy and grim, with drugs.
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
Otherworldly interactions on an island in the Danube.
Suicide Watch - Arinn Dembo (Dark Theatres)
Nirvana as Mythos.
The Yellow Sign - Robert Chambers
Lugubrious and creepy.
Cold Print - Ramsey Campbell
A warning on second hand bookshops.
The Tsalal - Thomas Ligotti
An occult cult does what it must
Comments
Good call on The Yellow Sign. I've got the Chaosium Chambers anthology and rather enjoyed it. What did you think of The Maker of Moons?
The Maker of Moons is strange as is much of Chambers.
Moons though, seems to be a story of the yellow peril but as such is of its time.
2. 95% of clerks say "like Dempsey and Makepeace" when they see my name on a form.
3. Matt Le Tissier scored 98% of the penalties he took.
4. 61% of the first 164 digits of pi when expressed in binary are zeroes.
5. 15.9%
Quality!