Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions

Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions

Cover of Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions
Author	Darrell Schweitzer
Illustrator	Tim Kirk
Cover artist	Tim Kirk
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Fedogan & Bremer
Publication date	2015
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	v, 276 pp
ISBN	9781878252753
OCLC	914216916

Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions is a collection of dark fantasy and horror short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Fedogan & Bremer in September 2015.^[1][2]

The collection consists of twenty-two stories of the author, two of them collaborative, together with an introduction by Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi.^[1] The pieces were originally published from 1994-2015 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.^[2]

Contents

• "Introduction" (S. T. Joshi)
• "Envy, the Gardens of Ynath, and the Sin of Cain" (from Interzone no. 178, April 2002)
• "Hanged Man and Ghost" (from The Weird Fiction Review no. 5, November 2014)
• "Stragglers from Carrhae" (from World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories, August 2014)
• "The Eater of Hours" (from Allen K's Inhuman Magazine no. 4, Summer 2009)
• "The Runners Beyond the Wall" (from Weird Tales v. 66, no. 4, Fall 2012)
• "On the Eastbound Train" (from Madness on the Orient Express, December 2014)
• "Howling in the Dark" (from Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, April 2010)
• "Sometimes You Have to Shout about It" (from H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror no. 4, Spring-Summer 2007)
• "The Head Shop in Arkham"
• "Innsmouth Idyll" (from Dead But Dreaming 2, June 2011)
• "Class Reunion" (from Dead But Dreaming 2, June 2011)
• "Why We Do It" (from Dead But Dreaming, March 2002)
• "The Warm" (from The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1, October 2014)
• "Spiderwebs in the Dark" (from Black Wings of Cthulhu 3, March 2015)
• "The Corpse Detective"
• "Jimmy Bunny" (from Shock Totem 5: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, October 2012)
• "The Last of the Black Wind"
• "In Old Commoriom" (from Deepest, Darkest Eden: New Tales of Hyperborea, August 2013)
• "The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with a Hundred Knives" (from Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, June 2012)
• "The Scroll of the Worm" (from The Horror Express no. 2, June 2004) (with Jason Van Hollander)
• "Those of the Air" (from Cthulhu's Heirs: Tales of the Mythos for the New Millennium, March 1994) (with Jason Van Hollander)
• "Ghost Dancing" (from Cthulhu's Reign, April 2010)

References

1. Awaiting Strange Gods on Fedogan & Bremer website
2. Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database