Full Description
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." The classic American horror author H. P. Lovecraft coined the term 'weird fiction' in the 1920s. Even today, in our rational world of wonder, his legacy of cosmic horror slumbers on. Deep in the recesses of our unconscious minds, we suspect it to be the truth - that we begin to glance the shape of true reality, and it is not to our liking. Not at all. Modern science, with its experts and specialities, is a fragmentary thing. In this, it reflects the human mind. We keep our thoughts in boxes, broken into digestible shards. It is safer. Cosmic horror warns us that what we fondly imagine to be reality is just a thin skin of light and substance over endless gulfs of insanity. Gather too much knowledge, make the wrong connections, and the truth can no longer be denied. The amazing tales lovingly collected in Cthulhu Lies Dreaming are fragments of that truth. Treat them with the caution that they deserve. Each will offer you glimpses behind the skin of the world, leading you closer and closer to the edge of the abyss.Knowledge may bring wisdom, but it also offers far darker gifts to the curious.The truth is indeed out there - and it hungers.
Contents
Foreword - Kenneth Hite; Nikukinchaku - Matthew Hockey; Babatunde - Ayobami Leeman Kessler; The Myth of Proof - Greg Stolze; Service - Lynnea Glasser; The Star that is Not a Star - Lucy Brady; August Lokken - Yma Johnson; Wake My Lord - M. S. Swift; Puddles - Thord D. Hedengren; Sometimes, the Void Stares Back - Marc Reichardt; Beyond the Shore - Lynne Hardy; Bleak Mathematics - Brian Fatah Steele; Father of Dread - Matthew Chabin; He Sees You in His Dreams - Samuel Morningstar; Isophase Light - Daniel Marc Chant; Icebound - Morris Kenyon; Seven Nights in a Sleep Clinic - Saul Quint; Mykes Reach - William Couper; Notes on Wilcox - Peter Rawlik; Offspring - Evey Brett; Out on Route 22 - E. Dane Anderson; The Red Brick Building - Mike Davis; The Lullaby of Erich Zann - G. K. Lomax; Cymothoa Cthulhii - Gethin A. Lynes; Contributor bios
