Many of the best weird fiction writers & creators in other media have been influenced by the genre & the mythos H.P. Lovecraft created eight decades ago. His themes of cosmic indifference, minds invaded by the alien & the horrors of history—written with a pervasive atmosphere of dread—are more relevant than ever as we explore the mysteries of a cosmos in which our planet is infinitesimal & climatic change is overwhelming it. A few years ago, New Cthulhu presented some of the best of this new Lovecraftian fiction from the first decade of the 21st century. Now, New Cthulhu 2 brings more eldritch tales & even fresher fiction. Introduction 2.0 / Paula Guran The Same Deep Waters As You / Brian Hodge Mysterium Tremendum / Laird Barron The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings / Caitlín R. Kiernan Bloom / John Langan At Home with Azathoth / John Shirley The Litany of Earth / Ruthanna Emrys Necrotic Cove / Lois Gresh On Ice / Simon Strantzas The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette All My Love, A Fishhook / Helen Marshall The Doom That Came to Devil Reef / Don Webb Momma Durtt / Michael Shea They Smell of Thunder / W. H. Pugmire The Song of Sighs / Angela Slatter Fishwife / Carrie Vaughn In the House of the Hummingbirds / Silvia Moreno-Garcia Who Looks Back? / Kyla Ward Equoid / Charles Stross The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft / Marc Laidlaw About the Authors Acknowledgments
Many of the best weird fiction writers & creators in other media have been influenced by the genre & the mythos H.P. Lovecraft created eight decades ago. His themes of cosmic indifference, minds invaded by the alien & the horrors of history—written with a pervasive atmosphere of dread—are more relevant than ever as we explore the mysteries of a cosmos in which our planet is infinitesimal & climatic change is overwhelming it. A few years ago, New Cthulhu presented some of the best of this new Lovecraftian fiction from the first decade of the 21st century. Now, New Cthulhu 2 brings more eldritch tales & even fresher fiction. Introduction 2.0 / Paula Guran The Same Deep Waters As You / Brian Hodge Mysterium Tremendum / Laird Barron The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings / Caitlín R. Kiernan Bloom / John Langan At Home with Azathoth / John Shirley The Litany of Earth / Ruthanna Emrys Necrotic Cove / Lois Gresh On Ice / Simon Strantzas The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette All My Love, A Fishhook / Helen Marshall The Doom That Came to Devil Reef / Don Webb Momma Durtt / Michael Shea They Smell of Thunder / W. H. Pugmire The Song of Sighs / Angela Slatter Fishwife / Carrie Vaughn In the House of the Hummingbirds / Silvia Moreno-Garcia Who Looks Back? / Kyla Ward Equoid / Charles Stross The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft / Marc Laidlaw About the Authors Acknowledgments