Cthulhu's Reign by Darrell Schweitzer - An Admirable Lovecraft Recall Anthology

Cthulhu’s Reign is a collection of amazing horror short stories. The editor of the anthology was World Fantasy Award winner Darrell Schweitzer (his short fiction is there in the book, too), and its inspiration, of course, H. P. Lovecraft, mostly known from Cthulhu mythos which is based on ancient legends and the author’s twisted fantasy.



Cthulhu’s Reign consists of fifteen short stories by American and English writers (Ian Watson, Laird Barron, Brian Stableford included), all of them are masters of horror and dark fantasy in their own right, and their present stories are tributes to Lovecraft. In their fictitious world Lovecraft’s worst nightmare has already come real and the vile Great Old Ones has occupied Earth again. I must admit I do prefer Lovecraft’s scary horror over his cosmic horror – in Cthulhu Reigns one can find both, and the result is a dark, gloomy, very enjoyable collection. All the stories recalls the brooding, uneasy atmosphere of Lovecraft’s weird tales.