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The Book of Cthulhu II

by Laird Barron, Molly Tanzer, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, John R. Fultz, Paul Tobin, William Browning Spencer, Kim Newman, Christopher Reynaga, Gord Sellar, Michael Chabon, Mark Samuels, Matt Wallace, Stanley C. Sargent, Orrin Grey, Karl Edward Wagner, Neil Gaiman, Cody Goodfellow, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Fritz Leiber, Livia Llewellyn, W.H. Pugmire, Ann K. Schwader, Adam Scott Glancy, Jonathan Wood · 2012

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When Night Shade Books unleashed The Book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world, it was critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond.

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For nearly a century, H. P. Lovecraft's tales of malevolent Great Old Ones existing beyond the dimensions of this world, beyond the borders of sanity, have captured and held the imaginations of writers and aficionados of the dark, the macabre, the fantastic, and the horrible. Now, because you demanded more, anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has risked all to dive back into the Cthulhu canon, combing through mind-shattering manuscripts and moldering tomes to bring you The Book of Cthulhu 2, with even more tales of tentacles, terror, and madness.

Featuring monstrous stories by many of weird fiction's brightest lights, The Book of Cthulhu 2 brings you even more tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's greatest creation: The Cthulhu mythos.

This year, the stars are right...

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

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