Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror is a thematically-linked anthology of Cthulhu Mythos stories.
Overview[]
Combining the grittiness of the hardboiled genre with the fantastical horror of the Cthulhu Mythos, Hardboiled Cthulhu contains a total of 22 stories. It was first published on July 15th 2006 by Elder Signs Press, was edited by James Ambuehl, who also contributed two pieces to the collection, and runs to 332 pages.
Contents[]
- "Sleeping with the Fishes" by James Ambuehl
- "The Pisces Club" by James Ambuehl
- "A Change of Life" by William Jones
- "Ache" by David Witteveen
- "A Dangerous High" by E. P. Berglund
- "A Little Job in Arkham" by John Sunseri
- "Day of Iniquity" by Steven L. Shrewsbury
- "Eldritch-Fellas" by Tim Curran
- "Outside Looking In" by David Conyers
- "Pazuzu's Children" by Jeffrey Thomas
- "The Devil in You" by Eric J. Millar
- "The Mouth" by William Meikle
- "The Questioning of the Azathothian Priest" by C. J. Henderson
- "Some Thoughts on the Problem of Order" by Simon Bucher-Jones
- "The White Mountains" by Jonathan Sharp
- "Then Terror Came" by Patrick Thomas
- "The Prying Investigations of Edwin M. Lillibridge" by Robert M. Price
- "The Roaches in the Walls" by James Chambers
- "To Skin a Dead Man" by Cody Goodfellow
- "Unfinished Business"by Ron Shiflet
- "[he Watcher from the Grave" by J. F. Gonzalez
- "Dreems.biz" by Richard A. Lupoff
External Links[]
- Hardboiled Cthulhu review at Tampa Bay Newspapers
- Hardboiled Cthulhu review at SF Site