Not so great Lovecraftian fiction
Explore a curated list of not-so-great Lovecraftian fiction books. Discover lesser-known works inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's mythos that missed the mark.
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Other Nations
by T & P Marsh
The first book I had written contains information regarding the traditional things that are going on in the church today and have been going on for many, many years. God has inspired me with the assistance from my wife to dig deeper and research a little more about these traditons. It is to open our eyes as well as the eyes of others and set us free from those old traditions that are holding us back from having a real relationship with Christ. Christ came to save us not to keep us in bondage or slavery. People are hurting because they have been taught that there is a certain way that they have to serve God in order to be blessed. They have been told that there are certain things they cannot do if they want to be blessed or saved. The so called Pastors/False Prophets have kept so many people in darkness. God's people are still in bondage by the false teachers. So many people believe if they don't work in the church (usher, in the choir, on the missionary board, etc.) they are not saved. Many people believe that you have to work to be saved. They have missed the mark. As a Christian, you work because you are saved, it is not an obligation, but a privilege. Christ is our comforter. He has not come to keep us in bondage. He has freed us from our sins, from the law of bondage. When the people came to Jesus and ask to be healed he always tell them that "your faith" has made you whole or your faith has healed you. Faith in Christ is the Key Word.
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The H.P. Lovecraft Institute
by David Bischoff
It's the HP Lovecraft Institute for Celestial Engineering--and one alone has escaped to tell the tale. It's the kind of school that no one ever graduates--alive.
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A Darkness Inbred
by Victor Heck
If God came from the grave. . .In 1993, the year of the Great Missouri Flood, a small town called Hardin was completely submerged. Buildings, cars, people. . .entire lives and family histories erased in a matter of days. However, it wasn't just the living that suffered, but also the dead, as the cemetery's occupants were washed free from their graves as well. . .along with something else, long forgotten, from an older cemetery underneath the newer one. Victor Heck's novel A Darkness Inbred appeared in 2001, entering an otherwise quiet horror scene like a hurricane. Praised heavily by readers and critics alike as an incredibly strong debut appearance, it was reviewed everywhere from Dark Realms to Fangoria with words such as 'brilliant', 'sinister', 'twisted', and 'ghoulish'. A bizarre 'what-if' story where one of H.P. Lovecraft's immortal creations is updated to present day and finds itself worshipped as Christ's second-coming by a deformed family of ignorant hill people.
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Horror Between the Sheets
by Michael Amorel
Horror Between the Sheets, The Best of CSM B&W, presents the best short stories and poems from the first 16 innovative issues of CSM. This anthology features the writings of Bram Stoker Award winning Mark McLaughlin, award winning Jeremy Russell, Origin Award nominated Christine Morgan, Brian Knight, Durant Haire and Matthew Howe among others. Exhibiting the prowess of some of the best new and veteran writers in the genre of sensual horror, Horror Between the Sheets satisfies with word after word.
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Dagon
by Fred Chappell
Peter Leland, a young minister, inherits his grandparents' farm in the mountains of North Carolina. There, he aims to finish his book on Dagon, the maimed pagan deity of fertility described in the First Book of Samuel. But returning to the place of murky childhood memories strangely effects Peter.
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Island Life
by William Meikle
Duncan McKenzie is a marine biologist working on a small, sparsely populated island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. The island has an indigenous population of only six people except for a team of archeology students who are opening up what seems to be an early Neolithic burial mound. Two lighthouse keepers, Dick (a young trainee), and Tom (an old hand with many years of experience), are disturbed in their work by the appearance of a dazed female student, badly traumatized and bruised. The student tells of the slaughter of the rest of her party by something that they have released from the burial mound. Soon everyone the three men know is either missing or dead and there are things moving in the fog. Large, hulking, unholy things with a taste for human flesh. Then the fun starts in earnest.
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The Riddle of Cthulhu
by Ray Emerson
Cthulhu has reoccupied the Earth with his evil "Old Ones" and is bent on destroying Mankind. Two young lovers and their companions descend into the underworld to fight the alien invasion.
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Ultimate Wmd
by Ray Emerson
A CIA team inside an archeological expedition discovers an enemy of Earth, with nuclear and supernatural power. Will the Devil Cthulu from planet R'lyeh unleash the Weapon of Mass Destruction? Or can a few humans close the door in time? .
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Gretchen's Wood
by Ran Cartwright
Columbiana County, Ohioa place of deep woods, meandering creeks, open farmland, and twisting narrow country roads. Its bright there, colorful and beautiful. From the flat farmland in the north to the rolling hills in the south, its picture postcard perfect. Almost. There are also the haunted ruins of a lock and canal system, and the ghost town of Sprucevale. There are legends of Big Foot, and ghosts, and other things that are said to walk the shadowed woods. It wouldnt be so bad if thats all it wasthe mere supernatural. There are other shadows in those woods, shadows of something ancient that lurks there, something as old as time. It waits and watches. It sometimes whispers to the unsuspecting, and on occasion someone stumbles upon it. Fortunately, most dont live to regret it.
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Servants of Chaos
by Don D'Ammassa
The isolated fishing village of Crayport, Massachusetts, appears normal at first glance, but appearances can be deceiving. Outsiders are not welcome. Inhabitants are unusually hostile towards strangers, and some of them share an odd physical trait. But when a man looking to buy land in Crayport arrives, he finds that the residents have become hosts to a dangerous parasitic creature from another reality. Original.
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The Starry Wisdom
by Alan Moore
Contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness, many inspired directly by the life and writings of H.P. Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes in their own bizarre subtexts.
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The Sand Dwellers
by Adam Niswander
The Sand Dwellers is the fourth novel by Niswander, whose previous novels include The Charm, The Serpent Slayers, and The Hound Hunters, all part of his ambitious thirteen-novel Shaman Cycle. Niswander, who makes his home in Phoenix, Arizona, again uses the Southwest as a backdrop for his new novel. Set in, around, and under the Superstition Mountains, the novel is part detective story, part techno-thriller, and part supernatural horror with a decided Lovecraftian flavor. A researcher disappears in the mountains, and the local authorities are quick to drop the case. A determined colleague hires a detective to discover the truth. The truth is a little strange. Mutants, monsters, and military madness commingle in this taut mixture of suspense and supernatural horror.
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The Iron Maiden
by Peter Lancett
Kevin, a young man sleeping rough on the streets of London, meets Jenny Marsten and is drawn into a supernatural quest to save her from the nightmare fate her father has planned for her.
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Eidolon
by Thom Ryng
Few are those who tread the Dreamlands of the Earth, but fewer still those who return with something more than a wistful tale. For years, Kaspar Hauser had a series of recurring dreams in which he carefully copied the contents of a book dedicated to Gods long since slumbering in the world we know. Gods with names like Thedeccan. Kemem. Azathoth. This is that book.
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The Coming of T'Loal
by John O'Connor
A Cthulhu Mythos arc. Two college friends stumble onto an ancient religious cult with links to the present while assembling an exhibit for the Clay County Historical Society. Can Michael and Terry solve the mystery of the great T'Loal before the final battle? Or will the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods engage in an interdimensional battle that will determine the fate of humanity? For anyone who loves H. P. Lovecraft and the mythos he created.
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Lair of the Dreamer
by Franklyn Searight
Franklyn Searight is the son of Richard F. Searight, Weird Tales author and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft. Although the elder Searight invented the evocative Eltdown Shards, occasionally employed by Lovecraft himself, he made no great effort to carry on the Cthulhu Mythos tradition. Happily, the younger Searight does! Enthusiasts have been delighted with Frankyn Searight's Innsmouth stories since the mid-seventies, but never before have all of these tales been drawn together. Also included in this long overdue single-author collection is his unpublished Mythos novel, Lair of the Dreamer, along with his posthumous collaboration with his father, "The Mists of Death."
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The Black Sutra
by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
The author's first horror fiction collection contains several Cthulhu Mythos tales, and stories of classic Lovecraftian horror.
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New Mythos Legends
by C. J. Henderson
A collection of 16 short stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, these stories drive the Mythos to a new level, building new worlds, creating new creatures, while taking readers into realms where unknown forces lurk beyond their perceptions.
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Coach's Midnight Diner
by Coach Culbertson
Selected short stories from the producers of Relief, a quarterly periodical, cross genres to present "Hardboiled Horror, Crime, and Paranormal Fiction from a Christian slant!"
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The Returner
by C. Landri
The Earth is in terrible danger. The Babylonian horror Cthulhu has obtained the Book of Planes. With this magical text he can open the very fabric of reality and enter our world through the Domain of Planes to begin a mission of annihilation and conquest our universe has never known before. The only things standing in Cthulhu's path are three gifted humans and one unassuming, but cosmically gifted young man. Nirvana, a Buddhist monk who possesses infinite knowledge, Kuun'Liah, the living embodiment of the Earth, and Professor Parker J. McCoy, who can speak every language known to man, must train shy college student John Rourke Harken, The Returner, to utilize his cosmic powers to save the Earth from Cthulhu's unrelenting brand of savagery. It is a race against time to train young Rourke to put an end to Cthulhu's evil forever. But Cthulhu has plans of his own, for he has amassed an army to assist him in his diabolical plot of eradication and dominion. Can Nirvana and his compatriots train young Rourke in time? Or will Cthulhu's long shadow of evil engulf the entire universe?
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The Fertile Crescent
by Christopher McLaim
Astronomy. Astrology. Archery. Lycanthropy. Sorcery. Elemental Magic. Rape. Incest. Mesopotamian mythology. Bronze Age tank warfare. The alien Gods that tormented horror grandmaster Howard Phillips Lovecraft every moment of his life. Plus: a brand-new, never before seen (at least not in this Universe) Cthulhoid entity known simply as the Eradicator.Boys and girls, this one has it all!
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An Evil Guest
by Gene Wolfe
Following his World Fantasy Award-winning novel "Soldier of Sidon," Wolfe offers a tale of supernatural horror.
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Cthulhu's Chosen
by Elizabeth Loiler
"When religion becomes self sustaining, becomes a natural part of life, do the gods need us or do we need them?"By the most unlikely circumstances, a young girl dubbed Verdandi is swept into a twisted plot to rule a country she hadn't even seen. It all starts upon meeting Rahel, the Chancellor to the King of a land in direct contrast to her own icy Northern realm. Though Rahel's tone could easily match the cold climate, she gives friendship to the young Verdandi- and takes her loyalty in return.On the second night of Rahel's visit, Verdandi is abducted to the hot, sultry land of the South and is soon shunted into a dark and morbid secret. The call of Cthulhu is upon her, and she must answer.