Black Wings V: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, also released as Black Wings of Cthulhu Volume 5, is a Lovecraftian anthology, part of the Black Wings series of original H.P. Lovecraft-influenced fiction.
The stories are original to this volume, with the exception of Caitlín R. Kiernan's "Far From Any Shore," which first appeared in the June 2014 issue of Sirenia Digest (#101).
Overview[]
Edited by world-renowned Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, Black Wings V contains a total of twenty stories, and was first issued in hardback format in May 2016 by PS Publishing. It was re-released by Titan Books as a paperback in January 2018, under the title Black Wings of Cthulhu Volume 5: Twenty New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror.
Contents[]
- Introduction by S. T. Joshi
- "Plenty of Irem" by Jonathan Thomas
- "Diary of a Sane Man" by Nicole Cushing
- "The Woman in the Attic" by Robert H. Waugh
- "Far from Any Shore" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
- "In Blackness Etched, My Name" by W. H. Pugmire
- "Snakeladder" by Cody Goodfellow
- "The Walker in the Night" by Jason C. Eckhardt
- "In Bloom" by Lynne Jamneck
- "The Black Abbess" by John Reppion
- "The Quest" by Mollie L. Burleson
- "A Question of Blood" by David Hambling
- "Red Walls" by Mark Howard Jones
- "The Organ of Chaos" by Donald Tyson
- "Seed of the Gods" by Donald R. Burleson
- "Fire Breeders" by Sunni K. Brock
- "Casting Fractals" by Sam Gafford
- "The Red Witch of Chorazin" by Darrell Schweitzer
- "The Oldies" by Nancy Kilpatrick
- "Voodoo" by Stephen Woodworth
- "Lore" by Wade German