Subscribe to Read
Sign up today to enjoy a complimentary trial and begin exploring the world of books! You have the freedom to cancel at your convenience.
Cthulhu Unbound, Vol. 1
| Title | Cthulhu Unbound, Vol. 1 |
| Writer | |
| Date | 2024-10-12 04:00:39 |
| Type | |
| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
Imagine being free. Free from everything that defines you, that makes you easily recognizable as who you are. Welcome to a place where bleak noir cityscapes share a Technicolor sky with combat fighters, where you can find gunslingers from the Old West and a lost chapter from a literary classic, all with something in common: Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. This is a place where the Crawling Chaos has to solve his own murder and the Old Ones come up against the Gods of Las Vegas, a place where the new player in London's underground isn't human and masked heroes go toe-to-tentacle with eldritch horrors. This is a Mythos collection unlike any other. This is Lovecraft in many colors, many guises. This is Cthulhu--Unbound! Read more
Review
This is a collection of different takes on Mythos characters. There is a noir detective story, a romance, humor, and more. I liked Noir-lathotep by Linda Donahue, Star Crossed by Bennet Reilly, and Locked Room by CJ Henderson. There are a lot of Mythos anthologies that center around a theme, sometimes a particular HPL theme (Innsmouth, Hastur, etc) or an external theme intersected with the Mythos (Eldritch Chrome, Hardboiled Cthulhu, etc) but this is different. The anthologist here is trying to show that a good author can make ANYTHING into a good Mythos story - or that a good author can take the Mythos into almost any direction. If you want something different in a Mythos anthology, then you want this..
