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Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts
W. H. Pugmire
Mythos Books LLC, 2008
Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts is a collection of horror and dark fantasy tales in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, set in the mysterious Sesqua Valley - a dark and sinister locale imagined by W.H. Pugmire. The reader will find carefully crafted tales of Lovecraftian horror and the Cthulhu Mythos artfully coloured with the lavish touches for which W.H. Pugmire is famous. His stories are not mere pastiche, but finely wrought ...
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Omens
Richard, Gavin
Mythos Books LLC, 2007
Omens is a collection of twelve haunting tales by Richard Gavin, whose work is reminiscent of the subtle supernatural tales of Robert Aickman, and also of the eerie and unsettling tales of Thomas Ligotti.
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My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror 4 reviews
Thomas Ligotti
Mythos Books, 2002
Strange and unsettling
Thomas Ligotti has carved out a unique place for himself in modern weird fiction. The power of his work comes from his ability to create a strange atmosphere that enables one to not so much suspend disbelief as actually become a part of the story. I always come away from reading Ligotti's work with a feeling of having been somewhere, sometime, not quite normal. His characters fit into these ...
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In The Yaddith Time 1 review
Ann K. Schwader
Mythos Books LLC, 2007
Decent sonnet cycle
In the Yaddith Time is a book of sonnets by Ann K. Schwader published by Mythos Books in 2007. List price is ony $10.00, but then there are only 54 pages. Each of the 36 sonnets gets its own page (the same number of sonnets in Fungi from Yuggoth). The cover art is by Steve Lines of Rainfall Books (he has one painting appear in the wonderful A Lovecraft Retrospective from Centipede Press). who ...
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The Drums of Chaos
Richard L. Tierney
Mythos Books, 2008
THE DRUMS OF CHAOS by Richard L. Tierney is the author's magnum opus: an epic alternate history dark fantasy Cthulhu Mythos novel that featurs Tierney's most famous characters, Simon of Gitta and John Taggart. Set in the Holy Land during the time of the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, Simon of Gitta is on mission to avenge the deaths of his parents, seeking revenge in blood against the Roman officials who commited the murders. As he travels the ...
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Teatro Grottesco3 reviews
Thomas Ligotti
Mythos Books LLC, 2007
Vividly written, darkly engaging, and truly memorable
Horror fantasy fiction is an enduring popular genre in publishing, movies, and television shows. A five-time recipient of awards for his horror fiction (including the International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker awards), novelist Thomas Ligotti is one of the most influential writers working today in a tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe and reached true literary acclaim with such luminaries ...
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Secret Hours 2 reviews
Michael; Cisco
Mythos Books LLC, 2007
WORTH THE WAIT
I have been waiting for this printed text for at least 5 torpid years. I am glad to still be in acceptable enough physical health at this point in order to acknowledge Cisco with 5 amazon stars.
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Dark Wisdom1 review
Mythos Books LLC, 2007
Great prose but a big caveat
Dark Wisdom is a single author collection of stories by Gary Myers, newly published by Mythos Books. I very much liked the stories and thus recommend the book, but I have one very great reservation that I will explain a bit later. I don't know much about Gary Myers except that he was born in 1952. He actually has a small entry on Wikipedia where it lists this fact and says that his occupation ...
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Unholy Dimensions6 reviews
et al Jeffrey Thomas
Mythos Books LLC, 2005
Mandatory reading for Cthulhu mythos fans
The enterprising small press Mythos Books has finally been releasing some titles that we have all been waiting on for some time (And some we had no idea were pending release; their website is extremely user unfriendly compared to Elder Signs Press, Hippocampus Press or Golden Gryphon Press. On the other hand Wildside Press and Pagan Publishing won't win any prizes for keeping up to date ...
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Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind
Leo Grin, Scott Sheaffer, ...
Mythos Books LLC, 2003
76 pages. Oversized trade paperback. Introduction by Ben Szumskyj. "An Introduction to the Life and Works of Robert E. Howard" and an interview with Glenn Lord by Joe Marek; an untitled dark fantasy/Cthulhu Mythos style story featuring John O'Dare by Robert E. Howard; "A Short History of the Conan Typescripts" by Patrice Louniet; "The Devil's Woodchopper" by Robert E. Howard; "Pages from 'As the Poet Says'" by Rusty Burke with Leo Grin; ...
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The Tales of Inspector Legrasse 3 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft & C.J. Henderson
Mythos Books LLC, 2005
HPL's character is vividly realized by an accomplished mythos author
The Tales of Inspector Legrasse by CJ Henderson is a newly released title by Mythos Books. As usual Mythos Books advertising is pitiful, as I just sort of stumbled across it. It is a very nice quality trade paperback. At Amazon it is $13.60, eligible for free shipping if you buy $25 worth of books, although with slower delivery. The cover has a handsome noir type painting of Legrasse with a ...
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Lovecraft Chronicles2 reviews
Peter H. Cannon
Mythos Books, 2004
A fun read
I'm not a Lovecraft reader and don't much care for the Mythos, but I gave this story at the recommendation of someone who knows I like alternate history. It turned out to a be a fun read, marred only by its relative shortness and what might be termed an abrupt end.
As noted above, the book is structured as three vignettes, spaced several years apart and each narrated by a different person ...
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Correlated Contents: Six Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos1 review
Robert M. Price
Mythos Books, 1998
Highly literate fan fiction
As a longtime reader of Cthulhu Mythos fiction, I was heartened to see this volume of Jim Ambuehl's work in between covers. Each tale here is solidly based in the Mythos, with the addition of the author's Lu-Kthu cycle, adding some entities to the pantheon. Some are reminiscent of the old Creepy and Eerie black&white mags, all are well-told and most bear the author's singular satirical stamp. ...
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A Mother's Story Based on the Lemminkainen Runes From the Finnish Epic the Kalevala1 review
M.E.A. McNeil
Mythos Books and Art, 2006
Reviewed by Richard Impola, Emeritus Professor of Literature, Colombia University.
Richard Impola is widely regarded as the dean of translation of Finnish literature recognized with the Inger Sjooaberg Prize, the Art and Letters Award, and the Insignia of the Order of the Lion of Finland, First Class. This review appeared in the New World Finn.
As a follow-up to her retelling of the Vainamoinen tales from the Kalevala in The Magic Story Singer, M.E.A. McNeil has given us a ...
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Shards of Darkness1 review
E. P. Berglund
Mythos Books, 2000
11 great Mythos tales
Edward P. Berglund is an exceptional editor and writer whose DICIPLES OF CTHULHU (both the earlier edition and the revised later version) are essential for lovers of "Yog-Sothothery" and eldrich tales. Berglund has developed his own niche, an area of Oregon, as a setting for his stories. After reading these eleven tales, you will wish there were eleven more.
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The Taint of Lovecraft8 reviews
Stanley C. Sargent
Mythos Books, 2002
Bringing New Perspectives to the Worlds of Cosmic Nihilism
These days one of the hardest problems facing Cthulhu Mythos authors is to be able to write exciting tales within Lovecraft's framework, and yet tell these tales in a new and exciting voice. A fresh approach unfortunately seems to be something that numerous authors who've recently contributed to the cannon have been unable to do. So it is refreshing when an author such as Stanley C. Sargent ...
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Ancient Exhumations3 reviews
Stanley C. Sargent
Mythos Books, 1999
Inspiration vs. Imitation
I was proud to be one of the illustrators for this book, and I'm proud of author Stanley C. Sargent for what he's achieved in ANCIENT EXHUMATIONS. The easiest (laziest) way to describe the book would be to call it a collection of stories influenced by the master, H. P. Lovecraft. But really, that does Sargent a diservice. So many fans who work with HPL's mythos merely retread the same ...
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