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Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions

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Illustrator
  
Tim Kirk

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Originally published
  
2015

Genre
  
Fantasy

Publisher
  
Fedogan & Bremer

Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2015

Pages
  
v, 276 pp

Author
  
Darrell Schweitzer

ISBN
  
9781878252753

Cover artist
  
Tim Kirk

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Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions is a collection of dark fantasy and horror short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Fedogan & Bremer in September 2015.

The collection consists of twenty-two stories of the author, two of them collaborative, together with an introduction by Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi. The pieces were originally published from 1994-2015 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (S. T. Joshi)
  • "Envy, the Gardens of Ynath, and the Sin of Cain" (from Interzone no. 178, April 2002)
  • "Hanged Man and Ghost" (from The Weird Fiction Review no. 5, November 2014)
  • "Stragglers from Carrhae" (from World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories, August 2014)
  • "The Eater of Hours" (from Allen K's Inhuman Magazine no. 4, Summer 2009)
  • "The Runners Beyond the Wall" (from Weird Tales v. 66, no. 4, Fall 2012)
  • "On the Eastbound Train" (from Madness on the Orient Express, December 2014)
  • "Howling in the Dark" (from Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, April 2010)
  • "Sometimes You Have to Shout about It" (from H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror no. 4, Spring-Summer 2007)
  • "The Head Shop in Arkham"
  • "Innsmouth Idyll" (from Dead But Dreaming 2, June 2011)
  • "Class Reunion" (from Dead But Dreaming 2, June 2011)
  • "Why We Do It" (from Dead But Dreaming, March 2002)
  • "The Warm" (from The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1, October 2014)
  • "Spiderwebs in the Dark" (from Black Wings of Cthulhu 3, March 2015)
  • "The Corpse Detective"
  • "Jimmy Bunny" (from Shock Totem 5: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, October 2012)
  • "The Last of the Black Wind"
  • "In Old Commoriom" (from Deepest, Darkest Eden: New Tales of Hyperborea, August 2013)
  • "The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with a Hundred Knives" (from Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, June 2012)
  • "The Scroll of the Worm" (from The Horror Express no. 2, June 2004) (with Jason Van Hollander)
  • "Those of the Air" (from Cthulhu's Heirs: Tales of the Mythos for the New Millennium, March 1994) (with Jason Van Hollander)
  • "Ghost Dancing" (from Cthulhu's Reign, April 2010)

    • References

    Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions Wikipedia
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