Autumn Cthulhu

By Mike Davis (editor), Laird Barron, Gemma Files , Robert Levy , Nadia Bulkin , John Langan , Richard Gavin , S.P. Miskowski , Daniel Mills , Joseph S. Pulver Sr. , Damien Angelica Walters , Orrin Grey

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Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award!

H.P. Lovecraft, the American master of horror, understood with horrible clarity that all things must die. After summer is winter, and life inevitably gives way to frozen sterility. In our modern world, we live cushioned existences, and congratulate ourselves on our supposed escape from…

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1 author picked Autumn Cthulhu as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Gordon B. White

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The “Cthulhu” in the title is a bit of a misnomer, since the big squid doesn’t actually make an appearance, but this anthology does collect some wonderful contemporary authors of Weird fiction exploring the autumn season. I love fiction that hints at the hidden world(s) behind our own, and these stories capture that immense and unsettling feeling of when the world’s disguises rot and fall away. You can open it to any page and find a gem, but my personal favorites include Laird Barron’s invocation of small-town bizarreness in “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees”; Nadia Bulkin’s election season meets…

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