Tales of tentacles, terror, and madness from the publisher who brought youWastelands, The Living Dead, andBrave New Worlds First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhumythos encompass a pantheon of truly existential cosmic horror:Eldritch, uncaring, alien god-things, beyond mankind's deepest imaginings, drawing ever nearer, insatiably hungry, until oneday, when the stars are right.... As that dread day, hinted at within the moldering pages of thefabled Necronomicon, draws nigh, tales of the Great Old Ones-Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Hastur, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, and theweird cults that worship them-have cross-pollinated, drawingauthors and other dreamers to imagine the strange dark aeonsahead, when the dead-but-dreaming gods return. Now, intrepid anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has delved deepinto the Cthulhu canon, selecting from myriad mind-wrackingtomes twenty-seven sanity-shattering stories of cosmic terror.Featuring fiction by many of today's masters of the menacing,macabre, and monstrous, including Laird Barron, Caitln R.Kiernan, and Thomas Ligotti, The Book of Cthulhu goes whereno collection of Cthulhu mythos tales has gone before: to thevery edge of madness... and beyond! Do you dare open The Book of Cthulhu? Do you dare heed the call?