Caitlín R. Kiernan Book order (chronological)

Odkąd H.P. Lovecraft zaprosił kolegów, takich jak Frank Belknap Long i Robert Bloch (między innymi), żeby przyłączyli się do tworzenia "Mitologii Cthulhu" (pod wymyśloną przez niego mniej znaną nazwą "Yog-Sothery), dziesiątki autorów z różnym skutkiem próbowało swoich sił w tkaniu tego ogromnego... číst celé

In Vile Affections, Caitlín R. Kiernan's seventeenth short fiction collection, the boundaries of desire, fascination, passion, and dread collide. That which is beautiful may easily be profane. Those who love us may devour us alive. A shadow may shine like a supernova. The eye of the beholder is God. In these twenty-two stories, Kiernan's trademark range is on display, taking us from submerged and monster-haunted dreamscapes to quiet bedroom conversation between lovers, from unexpected and uncanny roadkill to an object lesson on the perils of picking up hitchhikers on rainy Appalachian nights. Moving deftly between such disparate genres as cyberpunk, fairy tales, and Southern Gothic, this is Kiernan at their eerie best.

Sarah Crowe opuściła Atlantę - i zgliszcza burzliwego związku - żeby zamieszkać w starym domu w wiejskich okolicach Rhode Island. W jego murach znajduje niedokończony rękopis dawnego mieszkańca, antropologa z obsesją na punkcie prastarego dębu rosnącego na odizolowanym zakątku posiadłości. Powiązane z miejscowymi legendami o nadnaturalnej magii oraz z udokumentowanymi wypadkami i morderstwami sękate drzewo zakorzenia się w wyobraźni Sary, co skłania ją do napisania własnej wersji jego podejrzanej historii. W miarę jak dąb opanowuje jej sny i prawie wszystkie myśli na jawie, Sarah ryzykuje zdrowie fizyczne i psychiczne, żeby odkryć tajemnice sprzed wieków...

“Her stories saturate the mind with color... There is simply nothing out there quite like her.”—The New York Times on Caitlín R. Kiernan A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time. Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling. He wants to learn if she can stop the latest apocalypse. Ellison, once a unique and valuable asset, can barely remember why she ever fought the good fight. Still, you don't say no to the Signalman, and the time has come to face her fears and the nightmare forces that almost destroyed her. Only Ellison can unleash the hound of Tindalos. . .

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible — the Children of the Next Level — and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in. A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from ‘other’ sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact. And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity. Agents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan.

Deliciously creepy, this loving tribute to the master of modern horror features riveting stories from his wicked progeny. H. P. Lovecraft created a wealth of legendary monstrosities a century ago, and this collection of stories reconnects with those imaginings: the massive, tentacled Cthulhu, who lurks beneath the sea waiting for his moment to rise; the demon Sultan Azathoth, who lies babbling at the center of the universe, mad beyond imagining; the Deep Ones, who come to shore to breed with mortal men; and the unspeakably-evil Hastur, whose very name brings death. Celebrating these famous beasts in all their grotesque glory, each story is a gripping new take on a classic mythos creature accompanied by an illuminating illustration. In one accursed tale, something unnatural slouches from the sea into an all-night diner to meet the foolish young woman waiting for him. In another storyline the Hounds of Tindalos struggle to survive trapped in human bodies, haunting pool halls for men they can lure into the dark. Strange, haunting, and undeniably monstrous, this is the best of Lovecraft's creatures—reawakened and re-imagined.

India Morgan Phelps –Imp para los amigos– es esquizofrénica. Ya no puede confiar en su propia mente, porque está convencida de que sus recuerdos, de alguna manera, la han traicionado, forzándola a cuestionar su propia identidad. Enfrentándose a sus propias percepciones, Imp debe descubrir la verdad sobre su encuentro con una maligna sirena, o un lobo de­samparado que se le apareció como una joven salvaje, o ninguna de estas cosas, sino algo mucho más extraño… algo que transita por los intersticios de la realidad.