Lovecraft Unbound

The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound, more than twenty of today's most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.

9 • Introduction (Lovecraft Unbound) • essay by Ellen Datlow
11 • The Crevasse • short story by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
31 • The Office of Doom • [Dust Devil] • short story by Richard Bowes
43 • Sincerely, Petrified • short fiction by Anna Tambour
73 • The Din of Celestial Birds • (1997) • short story by Brian Evenson
85 • The Tenderness of Jackals • short fiction by Amanda Downum
99 • Sight Unseen • short fiction by Joel Lane
113 • Cold Water Survival • short story by Holly Phillips
139 • Come Lurk With Me and Be My Love • short fiction by William Browning Spencer
161 • Houses Under the Sea • (2006) • novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
195 • Machines of Concrete Light and Dark • short story by Michael Cisco
213 • Leng • short fiction by Marc Laidlaw
239 • In the Black Mill • (1997) • short story by Michael Chabon
267 • One Day, Soon • short fiction by Lavie Tidhar
277 • Commencement • (2001) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
305 • Vernon, Driving • short fiction by Simon Kurt Unsworth
315 • The Recruiter • short fiction by Michael Shea
331 • Marya Nox • short fiction by Gemma Files
347 • Mongoose • [Boojum] • novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
375 • Catch Hell • short fiction by Laird Barron
413 • That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable • short fiction by Nick Mamatas