For more than thirty years, Michael Shea has been making his own distinctive contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos devised by H.
Joshi, a leading authority on Lovecraft and the Mythos.
This volume features wraparound cover artwork and five interior illustrations by renowned artist Aeron Alfrey (MADHOUSE).
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This volume of his Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales has been assembled by S.
Michael Shea (1946-2014) was the award-winning author of The Color out of Time, the Nifft the Lean series of fantasy novels, and the classic Tales Polyphemus and The Autopsy.
The title story, Demiurge, is a previously unpublished novella that draws upon Lovecraft\'s Tales of psychic possession in its chilling portrayal of a nameless monster who may be the harbinger of the overthrow of the entire human race.
Shea was also fascinated with Lovecraft\'s novel of Antarctic horror, At the Mountains of Madness, and his stories Under the Shelf and Beneath the Beardmore take us to that frozen land of death and terror.
In his Mythos tales, Shea has infused his own unique vision and perspective.
The much-reprinted Fat Face takes us into the seedy underworld of prostitutes and drug dealers in San Francisco, while other Tales such as Dagoniad, Copping Squid, and Tsathoggua vividly meld Lovecraftian cosmic horror with the contemporary world of California, with its swimming pools and beachcombers.
But Shea has done a lot more than merely mimic Lovecraft\'s prose or add a new god or forbidden book to the Mythos.
Lovecraft-an entire universe of gods and monsters that hundreds of writers have imitated.
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For more than thirty years, Michael Shea has been making his own distinctive contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos devised by H
