The Madness of Cthulhu
Edited by S. T. Joshi.
Sixteen stories inspired by the 20th century’s great master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and his acknowledged masterpiece, At the Mountains of Madness, in which an expedition to the desolation of Antarctica discovers evidence of an ancient ruin built by horrific creatures at first thought long-dead, until death strikes the group. All but two of the stories are original to this edition, and those reprints are long-lost works by science fiction masters Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Silverberg.
Contents:
- Foreword by Jonathan Maberry
- Introduction by S. T. Joshi
- At the Mountains of Murkiness by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Fillmore shoggoth by Harry Turtledove
- Devil's Bathtub by Lois H. Gresh
- The Witness in Darkness by John Shirley
- How the Gods Bargain by William Browning Spencer
- A Mountain Walked by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Diana of the Hundred Breasts by Robert Silverberg
- Under the Shelf by Michael Shea
- Cantata by Melanie Tem
- Cthulhu Rising by Heather Graham
- The Warm by Darrell Schweitzer
- Last Rites by K. M. Tonso
- Little Lady by Jeanne Cook (as by J. C. Koch)
- White Fire by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
- A Quirk of the Mistral by Jonathan Thomas
- The Dog Handler's Tale by Donald Tyson
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S. T. Joshi
S. T. Joshi is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft and the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos (2008), and other critical and biographical studies. His biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), won the British Fantasy Award and the Horror Writers Association award; it has now been published in an unabridged edition as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010). Joshi has prepared corrected editions of Lovecraft's fiction, poetry, and essays, and is working on a long-range project to publish Lovecraft's collected letters. He has also done work on Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, Lord Dunsany, and other writers. He has received the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Leslie, and numerous cats.
The Madness of Cthulhu
The Madness of Cthulhu consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

