Pete Rawlik

Reanimatrix

Shoggoths attack in this adrenaline-pumping novel set in the world of H. P. Lovecraft, where the horrors of the cosmos know no limits . . . It was in a way humanoid, as it stood on two legs and possessed two arms that ended in delicate digits that I would dare to call hands. Its skin was a pale blue, like the eggs of a robin, and curiously dry looking. The head was massive with a huge bulbous cranium, a large lipless mouth, and three blood red eyes that stared out at the world with nothing but hate.When it opened its mouth to speak it issued forth the most horrendous of sounds, something empty and hollow, like the wind blowing through a dead tree, and it made me cringe to hear it . . . The story of Dr. Hartwell (Reanimators) continues, but now he has company. Weird company: a witch, a changeling, a mad scientist, and a poet trapped in the form of a beast. These are not heroes but monsters . . . monsters to fight monsters. Their adventures rage across the globe, from the mountains and long-forgotten caves of Antarctica to the dimly lit backstreets of Innsmouth that still hold terrifying secrets. The unholy creatures released upon the world via the ill-fated Lake expedition to Antarctica must be stopped. And only the weird company stands in their way. Continuing in the fashion of Reanimators, The Weird Company finds Lovecraft expert Pete Rawlik taking some of the most well-known of H. P. Lovecraft’s creations and creating a true Frankenstein monster of a story—a tale more horrific than anything Lovecraft could have imagined . . . Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Secret History of H. P. Lovecraft?s Twentieth Century

The Weird Company

Jeffrey Thomas

Lucy A. Snyder

Tim Curran

Christine Morgan

Sam Gafford

Cody Goodfellow and many more

Featuring all new stories of cosmic and Lovecraftian horror based pre, during and post the apocalypse. Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror continues the Dark Regions Weird Fiction line with 19 original stories from some of the best authors in Lovecraftian horror and weird fiction today.

Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror

Return of the Old Ones

Josh Reynolds

Robert M. Price

Ramsey Campbell

Edward Morris

Tim Waggoner

W.H. Pugmire

Nick Mamatas

William Meikle

Scott R. Jones

Tom Lynch

Orrin Grey

John Goodrich

Konstantine Paradias

Thana Niveau

Lee Clarke Zumpe

There is a lake in the Severn Valley, near a town called Brichester. It is an eerie, haunted place, both by day and by night. Night especially though, is a time when no one in their right mind would go anywhere near it, or those oddly deserted houses that stand, albeit barely, on the edge of the shore. But why? What is it that moves about in that lake, a thing that makes its presence known with three sinister glowing eyes that protrude from beneath the water?

Some believe it is an entity that traveled to Earth, many thousands of years ago inside a hollow meteor.

A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Great Old One

The Children of the Gla'aki 

John Shirley

Neil Baker

W. Pugmire

C. Henderson

Robert Price

Stephen Rainey

T. Grau

Edward Erdelac

Lee Zumpe

The world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sowing madness and death. War has existed in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization, and before then, Elder terrors battled it out across this planet and this known universe in ways unimaginable.It has always been a losing battle for our side since time began. Incidents like the Innsmouth raid, chronicled by H.P. Lovecraft, mere blips of victory against an insurmountable foe. Still we fight, against these incredible odds, in an unending nightmare, we fight, and why? For victory, for land, for a political ideal? No, mankind fights for survival.Our authors, John Shirley, Mark Rainey, Wilum Pugmire, William Meikle, Tim Curran, Jeffrey Thomas and many others have gathered here to share war stories from the eternal struggle against the darkness. This book chronicles these desperate battles from across the ages, including Roman Britain, The American Civil War, World War Two, The Vietnam Conflict, and even into the far future.

A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories

World War Cthulhu

Edward M. Erdelac

D. L. Snell

Lee Clark Zumpe

Glynn Owen Barrass

D. J. Tyrer

Adam Bolivar

Brian M. Sammons

Carrie Cuinn

Christopher M. Geeson

Leigh Kimmel

Robert Neilson

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." So said H.P. Lovecraft in the first chapter of his most famous story, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926). This is also the perfect introduction to Steampunk Cthulhu, for within these stories mankind has indeed voyaged too far, and scientific innovations have opened terrifying vistas of reality, with insanity and worse as the only reward. The Steampunk genre has always incorporated elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and alternative history, and certainly the Cthulhu Mythos has not been a stranger to Steampunk. But until now there has never been a Steampunk Cthulhu collection, so here are 18 tales unbound from the tethers of mere airships, goggles, clockwork, and tightly bound corsets; stories of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and alternative realities tainted with the Lovecraftian and the Cthulhu Mythos. Here you will discover Victorian Britain, the Wild West era United States, and many other varied locations filled with anachronistic and sometimes alien technology, airships, submersibles and Babbage engines. But the Victorian era here is not only one of innovation and exploration, but of destruction and dread.

Mythos Terror in the Age of Steam

Steampunk Cthulhu

Matthew Dennion

Zach Cole

Once again, the many types of monsters from folklore, legend, and cinema et al. will be feared not only by the hapless human beings they routinely prey upon - but also of each other! Eleven different authors bring you short stories and a sprinkling of flash fiction featuring unfortunate people caught between two different monsters, with the latter creatures on a bloody collision course with each other for a climactic duel of the monsters! In each fear-fraught tale one of the two combatants will go down for the count. Which one will it be? More specifically, you will find out what happens when... A camping family and a forest ranger are caught between a deadly Bigfoot and a ravenous Killer Grizzly - who end up clashing in mortal combat to determine which is the true king of the forest; A Man-Made Monster stitched together by a scientist overcome with the usual madness clashes with the latter's assistant, a sentient Great Ape, in the most demented love story of the century; A Sea Serpent and a Kraken decide that even the vast ocean depths are not big enough for both of them; A dangerous Man-Beast is followed by an investigative reporter into the bayou... only for each to have a run-in with the deadly resident Swamp Monster; The dreaded Mr. Edward Hyde visits Paris only to find himself in the crosshairs of the fabled city's deadliest assassin - the Phantom of the Opera; A blood thirsty Velociraptor gets loose within the genetics facility that created it... only to cross fangs with an equally bloodthirsty Vampire; A powerful undead Lich finds himself challenged in an old cathedral by a host of flesh-craving Zombies; An Invisible Woman turned serial killer discovers that her latest targets have been stalked by a predator of a different sort - a man-eating Insectoid Alien; A man cursed to become a cannabalistic Wendigo finds himself and his family under siege by a rampaging Lizard Man; A voracious Werewolf takes refuge in a church... only to run afoul of the Gargoyle that prefers having no late night visitors; Stoner dude Bill Chan once again finds himself caught between two fearsome critters out of lumberjack folklore... only this time, the critters are a spiny Cactus Cat and an elusive Hidebehind. These creatures are here and ready to rumble for your nightmarish pleasure in the second volume of Duel of the Monsters! Rated Ex (Explicit) for graphic violence, strong language, sexuality, and intense themes. This book may not be suitable for sensitive readers.

Duel of the Monsters Volume 2

Legacy of the Reanimator

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

T. E. Grau

Henrik Sandbeck Harksen

Ian Davey

Thomas Strømsholt

Jayaprakash Satyamurthy

Morten Carlsen

Robert Tangiers

What lurks in the damp recesses of urban existence? These new tales of weird fiction are a blend of urban horror, pulp noir and dark fantasy. Lovecraftian horrors and Cthulhu Mythos monsters have never been this gritty. From haunted Kingsport across the globe to shadowy Berlin and the otherworldly music of Bangalore. From kind, sexy neighbors to cyberpunk paranoia an The King in Yellow. A journalist's search with unexpected results. What really happened to Walter Gilman, and what is the origin of the witch Keziah Mason? And witness humanity fail against the forces from beyond. From weird sounds to screams of madness. Entropy. Chaos. Disorder. Death. Beneath cities, on the outskirts of ruined, aeon-old cities and INSIDE cities. The stench, the decay, the hopelesness... it is everywhere. Welcome to URBAN CTHULHU: NIGHTMARE CITIES.

Urban Cthulhu: Nightmare Cities

Two Men. A Bitter Rivalry. And a Quarter-Century of Unspeakable Horrors. Herbert West’s crimes against nature are well-known to those familiar with the darkest secrets of science and resurrection. Obsessed with finding a cure for mankind’s oldest malady, death itself, he has experimented upon the living and dead, leaving behind a trail of monsters, mayhem, and madness. But the story of his greatest rival has never been told.Until now. Dr. Stuart Hartwell, a colleague and contemporary of West, sets out to destroy West by uncovering the secrets of his terrible experiments, only to become that which he initially despised: a reanimator of the dead. For more than twenty years, spanning the early decades of the twentieth century, the two scientists race each other to master the mysteries of life . . . and unlife. From the grisly battlefields of the Great War to the backwoods hills and haunted coasts of Dunwich and Innsmouth, from the halls of fabled Miskatonic University to the sinking of the Titanic, their unholy quests will leave their mark upon the world—and create monsters of them both. Reanimators is an epic tale of historical horror . . . in the tradition of Anno Dracula and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Reanimators

Pete Rawlik

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