Children of Lovecraft
2August 24, 2016 by Laird
Ellen Datlow has another anthology in the wings. Children of Lovecraft drops next month. Ellen included my dark fantasy story, “Oblivion Mode,” set in a fragmented alternate reality.
It features a cast of characters I’ve worked on for a while, including the otherworldly knight Karl Lochinvar; her companions, Knight Vagrant Marion Hand, retired scout Jonathan Bowie; and over the hill beasts of the Ur Blood, Rabbit Abbot, Mantooth the war dog, and Flint the faithful charger. This time around the company squares off against Baron Need, a horror from antiquity.
Table of Contents:
Nesters by Siobhan Carroll
Little Ease by Gemma Files
Eternal Troutland by Stephen Graham Jones
The Supplement by John Langan
Mortensen’s Muse by Orrin Grey
Oblivion Mode by Laird Barron
Mr. Doornail by Maria Dahvana Headley
The Secrets of Insects by Richard Kadrey
Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Jules and Richard by David Nickle
Glasses by Brian Evenson
When the Stitches Come Undone by A.C. Wise
On These Blackened Shores of Time by Brian Hodge
Bright Crown of Joy by Livia Llewellyn
Mike Mignola art; image via Amazon
What a diverse cast of recurring characters. I hope to encounter some of them in your forthcoming Swift to the Chase anthology.
That’s a pretty sturdy-looking ToC! Thanks for the info – I’ll definitely be picking this up around the end of September.