TOC: ‘New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird’ Edited by Paula Guran
Sean Wallace has posted the table of contents for Paula Guran’s upcoming anthology New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, coming from Prime Books in November of 2011. The book, which sports some nice cover art by Rafael Tavares, is described like so:
For more than eighty years H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers of supernatural fiction, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and gaming. His themes of cosmic indifference, the utter insignificance of humankind, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history–written with a pervasive atmosphere of unexplainable dread–today remain not only viable motifs, but are more relevant than ever as we explore the mysteries of a universe in which our planet is infinitesimal and climatic change is overwhelming it.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century supernatural writers no longer imitate Lovecraft, but they are profoundly influenced by the genre and the mythos he created. NEW CTHULHU: THE RECENT WEIRD presents some of the best of this new Lovecraftian fiction– bizarre, subtle, atmospheric, metaphysical, psychological, filled with strange creatures and stranger characters–eldritch, unsettling, evocative, and darkly appealing.
Here’s the table of contents:
- “The Crevasse” by Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud
- “Old Virginia” by Laird Barron
- “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
- “Mongoose” by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
- “The Oram County Whoosit” by Steve Duffy
- “Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman
- “Grinding Rock” by Cody Goodfellow
- “Pickman’s Other Model (1929)” by Caitlin Kiernan
- “The Disciple” by David Barr Kirtley
- “The Vicar of R’lyeh” by Marc Laidlaw
- “Mr Gaunt” by John Langan
- “Take Me to the River” by Paul McAuley
- “The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” by Nick Mamatas & Tim Pratt
- “Details” by China Mieville
- “Bringing Helena Back” by Sarah Monette
- “Another Fish Story” by Kim Newman
- “Lesser Demons” by Norm Partridge
- “Cold Water Survival” by Holly Phillips
- “Head Music” by Lon Prater
- “Bad Sushi” by Cherie Priest
- “The Fungal Stain” by W.H. Pugmire
- “Tsathoggua” by Michael Shea
- “Buried in the Sky” by John Shirley
- “Fair Exchange” by Michael Marshall Smith
- “The Essayist in the Wilderness” by William Browning Spencer
- “A Colder War” by Charles Stross
- “The Great White Bed” by Don Webb
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This looks like it will be a great anthology. I love the cover! I just wanted to let everyone know that at least one of these stories, “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear, is freely available at the author’s website. I read it a while ago and really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to reading the other stories – thank for pointing this one out!
That’s a pretty sweet line up. I’ve read and enjoyed a number of the stories included.
That looks pretty awesome!
I am happy that this book is getting such an online buzz, as that seems to signal a growing interest in Lovecraftian anthologies. I’ve read but some few of the stories in this anthology and I am thankful to Paula for her choice. Very happy to be among ye writers! And I love that cover!