James Ambuehl is an American writer, poet and editor who has made a number of contributions to the H. P. Lovecraft-inspired Cthulhu Mythos. He has also written under the pseudonym Lew Cthew.
Many of Ambuehl's Mythos works are set in or around the town of Braving, Minnesota, a fictional location created for this particular purpose.
Selected Bibliography
Editor
Periodicals
- Cthulhu Cultus (1995-2001)
Anthologies
- Arkham Tales: Legends of the Haunted City (2005)
- Hardboiled Cthulhu (2006)
Author
Short fiction
- "The Song of Cthulhu" (1984) [as Lew Cthew]
- "Sculpture" (1984) [as Lew Cthew]
- "The Outcast" (1985) [as Lew Cthew]
- "The Critique" (1991) [as Lew Cthew]
- "Beast of Love" (1995) with Tracy Ambuehl
- "The Horror That Came to Innsmouth" (1995)
- "The Advent of Uvhash" (1996)
- "The Star-Seed" (1996)
- "The Bane of Byagoona" (1996)
- "Lord of Lizards" (1996)
- "Pickman's God" (1997)
- "Finding God(s)" (1997)
- "The Court of the Crystal Flame" (1997)
- "The Looking Glass" (1997) [with Ian Davey and Peter A. Worthy and Edward P. Berglund]
- "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997)
- "The Tower of Madness" (1997)
- "Masters of Terror" (1998) with Laurence J. Cornford
- "Notebook Found in a Deserted Pagoda" (1998) [with Andrew D. Gable]
- "The World Made Flesh" (1998)
- "The Snake Farm" (1998)
- "Wrath of the Wind-Walker" (1998) [with Robert M. Price]
- "The Shadow of the Sleeping God" (1998)
- "The Slime Girls" (1998)
- "Correlated Contents" (1998)
- "The Deep-Lord Awakens" (1998)
- "The Terror of Toad Lake" (1998)
- "Atlachnaphobia" (1998)
- "The Forgotten God" (1999)
- "The Threshold" (1999)
- "The Waiting Doom" (1999) with Steven Marc Harris
- "EARTH - Covert Operations" (2000)
- "The Pisces Club" (2000)
- "Tempus Refugit" (2001) with Simon Bucher-Jones
- "The Inheritance" (2001)
- "One Rainy Afternoon Spent in the Company of Dr. Thulask" (2005)
- "Episode in an Arkham Pool Hall" (2006)
- "Arkham Pets" (2006)
- "By the Way, Whatever Happened to the Dagons?"
Poems
- "An Appreciation of 'He Hunts'" (1983) [as Lew Cthew]
- "Nightmare" (1983) [as Lew Cthew]
- "Kappa Alpha Tau" (1984) [as Lew Cthew]
- "The Crypt" (1984) [as Lew Cthew]
- "Dythalla" (1985) [as Lew Cthew]
- "Ragnalla" (1985) [as Lew Cthew]
- "The Outsider" (1990) [as Lew Cthew]
- "Where Walks Istasha" (1990) [as Lew Cthew]
- "The Eldritch Relic" (1998)
- "When the Stars Are Right" (1998)
- "Cthulhu's Camaro" (1999)
- "Subway Terror" (1999)
- "Stage-Fright" (1999)
- "He Knew" (1999)
- "Promethes: Where Walks Istasha" (2004)
- "Untitled" (2005)
- "Sleeping with the Fishes" (2006)
- "The Ballad of Black Bart" (2006)
- "The Seed from the Stars" (2006)
- "Following in Pickman's Footsteps …" (2006)
Essays
- Acolyte of the Arcane: Henry Kuttner (1984) [as Lew Cthew]
- In the Shadow of Mount Selta: The Lovecraftian Works of Wilum Pugmire (1997)
- In the Lake at Garlocks Bend: The Lovecraftian Works of David Kaufman (1997)
- Lovecraftian Horror Comics (1999)