People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction

People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos S15BE 1-23(February) CONTENTS VOL. I, No. 1&2 CONTENTS Jan & Feb, 1930 EDITORIAL Jan 1930   7 An Introduction to a New and Unique Magazine. THE BEETLE HORDE VICTOR ROUSSEAU 8 Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge—the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World. (Part One of a Two-part Novel.) THE CAVE OF HORROR CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 32 Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly Screech Rang Through the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave Had Struck Again! PHANTOMS OF REALITY RAY CUMMINGS 46 Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping—and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension. (A Complete Novel.) THE STOLEN MIND M. L. STALEY 75 What Would You Do, If, Like Quest, You Were Tricked, and Your Very Mind and Will Stolen from Your Body? COMPENSATION C. V. TENCH 92 Professor Wroxton Had Disappeared—But in the Bottom of the Mysterious Crystal Cage Lay the Diamond from His Ring! TANKS MURRAY LEINSTER 100 Two Miles of American Front Had Gone Dead. And on Two Lone Infantrymen, Lost in the Menace of the Fog-gas and the Tanks, Depended the Outcome of the War of 1932. INVISIBLE DEATH ANTHONY PELCHER 118 On Lees' Quick and Clever Action Depended the Life of "Old Perk" Ferguson, the Millionaire Manufacturer Threatened by the Uncanny, Invisible Killer.   Feb 1930 H. W. WESSOLOWSKI   Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Spawn of the Stars."     OLD CROMPTON'S SECRET HARL VINCENT 153 Tom's Extraordinary Machine Glowed—and the Years Were Banished from Old Crompton's Body. But There Still Remained, Deep-seated in His Century-old Mind, the Memory of His Crime.     SPAWN OF THE STARS CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN 166 The Earth Lay Powerless Beneath Those Loathsome, Yellowish Monsters That, Sheathed in Cometlike Globes, Sprang from the Skies to Annihilate Man and Reduce His Cities to Ashes.     THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING HUGH B. CAVE 187 In the Gloomy Depths of the Old Warehouse Dale Saw a Thing That Drew a Scream of Horror to His Dry Lips. It Was a Corpse—the Mold of Decay on Its Long-dead Features—and Yet It Was Alive!     CREATURES OF THE LIGHT SOPHIE WENZEL ELLIS 196 He Had Striven to Perfect the Faultless Man of the Future, and Had Succeeded—Too Well. For in the Pitilessly Cold Eyes of Adam, His Super-human Creation, Dr. Mundson Saw Only Contempt—and Annihilation—for the Human Race.     INTO SPACE STERNER ST. PAUL 221 What Was the Extraordinary Connection Between Dr. Livermore's Sudden Disappearance and the Coming of a New Satellite to the Earth?     THE BEETLE HORDE VICTOR ROUSSEAU 229 Bullets, Shrapnel, Shell—Nothing Can Stop the Trillions of Famished, Man-sized Beetles Which, Led by a Madman, Sweep Down Over the Human Race.     MAD MUSIC ANTHONY PELCHER 248 The Sixty Stories of the Perfectly Constructed Colossus Building Had Mysteriously Crashed! What Was the Connection Between This Catastrophe and the Weird Strains of the Mad Musician's Violin?     THE THIEF OF TIME CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 259 The Teller Turned to the Stacked Pile of Bills. They Were Gone! And No One Had Been Near!     Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

    COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO   Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Manape the Mighty."   THE MAN FROM 2071 SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 295 Out of the Flow of Time There Appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Mystery from the Forgotten Past.   MANAPE THE MIGHTY. ARTHUR J. BURKS 308 High in Jungle Treetops Swings Young Bentley—His Human Brain Imprisoned in a Mighty Ape. (A Complete Novelette.)   HOLOCAUST CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN 356 The Extraordinary Story of "Paul," Who for Thirty Days Was Dictator of the World.   THE EARTHMAN'S BURDEN R. F. STARZL 375 There is Foul Play on Mercury—until Danny Olear of the Interplanetary Flying Police Gets After His Man.   THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 386 Larry and George from 1935, Mary from 1777—All Are Caught up in the Treacherous Tugh's Revolt of the Robots in the Time World of 2930. (Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)   THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 416 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.   2022-2023 episodes “THE PEOPLE OF THE MONOLITH”/HPLHH Call of Cthulhu PHILLIPS, WARD/Dunwich Horror(1970) PICKMAN, RICHARD UPTON/Alien PNAKOTIC FRAGMENTS/Hellboy (2004)  PNAKOTUS/Cabin in the Woods QUACHIL UTTAUS/The Thing Form Out Space/The Thing/Who goes there REVELATIONS OF GLAAKI/Night of the Living Dead(OG) RHAN-TEGOTH/Texas Chain Saw Massacre(OG) R’lyeh/The Evil Dead(OG) SARKOMAND/Fire Walk with Me SARNATH/Hellraiser(OG) SATAMPRA ZEIROS/Silent Hill(OG) SENTINEL HILL/Noroi SHAGGAI/Maribeto SHOGGOTH/Possession (1981 SHANTAKS/ The Gate SHINING TRAPEZOHEDRON/Jacob’s ladder Shub-Niggurath/Angel’s Egg Shudde-M’ell/Dune(1984) The Silver Key/Bubba Ho Tep Silver Twilight/JDatE Star Vampires/Lifeforce Starkweather-More Expedition/Exorcist 3 Starry Wisdom Cult/It Follows     Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

Indrid Cold (later known as the Grinning Man or Smiling Man) is a legendary humanoid being who originated in 20th century folklore, and became a stock character in certain works of fiction. He is usually associated with tales of the Mothman from Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending.

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple  

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple  

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

"The Dweller in the Gulf", is a short story by American author  Clark Ashton Smith. It forms the second part of his Mars series. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53).  INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

"Mr. Spaceship" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Imagination in January 1953. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

  The Whisperer in Darkness is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

"The Variable Man" is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, which he wrote and sold before he had an agent. It was first published in Space Science Fiction September 1953. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple