The Leaves Of A Necronomicon (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)

Product Description

The Necronomicon. For centuries, scholars of the occult have sought out the darkly fabled tome, hoping to gain insight into the secret workings of the universe—or simple brute power.

What the book offered them instead was, more often than not, madness and devastation. Under the guidance of Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., The Leaves of a Necronomicon traces the impact of a single copy of the mysterious work on its owners and those around them as it passes from hand to hand across the decades.

The history is told in braided novel form, with chapters contributed by a gathering of outstanding horror and dark fantasy authors, including S.P. Miskowski, Michael Cisco, Damien Angelica Walters, Nick Mamatas, Anna Tambour, Jeffrey Thomas, and more.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: From Hand to Hand… to Hand—, by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Chapter 1: The Bookmaker, by Nate Pedersen

Chapter 2: The Collector of Rare Editions, by Donald Tyson

Chapter 3: Down to a Sunless Sea, by Allyson Bird

Chapter 4: Dawn Watch, by Daniel Mills

Chapter 5: Eyes of Flame, by Cody Goodfellow

Chapter 6: In Waves, by S.P. Miskowski

Chapter 7: Horrors Worse than Hell, by Robert M. Price

Chapter 8: Laying the Words, by Don Webb

Interlude: Mysteries Don’t Sleep, by Anna Tambour

Chapter 9: The Sun Saw, by Mike Allen

Chapter 10: American Ghost, by John Claude Smith

Chapter 11: Flickering I Roam, by E. Catherine Tobler

Chapter 12: Sewn into Pieces, Stitched into Place, by Damien Angelica Walters

Chapter 13: 11:00, by Nikki Guerlain

Chapter 14: Void Kiss, by Michael Cisco

Chapter 15: Liquor City, by Nick Mamatas

Interlude: Letter Found Sitting Atop a Rare Old Handbook of Dark Portent, by Anna Tambour

Chapter 16: Too Many Pages, by Simon Strantzas

Chapter 17: And I Watered It in Fears, by Sunny Moraine

Chapter 18: Miles and Katherine at the Crimson, by Michael Griffin

Chapter 19: Passages for the Dying and the Dead, by S.P. Miskowski

Chapter 20: Ménage à Trois, by Ross E. Lockhart

Chapter 21: The Persuader, by Jeffrey Thomas

Cover design by Inkspiral Designs/Matt Bright