Explanation is the Death of Horror

The Ballad Of Black Tom (2016) by Victor LaValle: There's an ongoing battle in horror circles over just how much emphasis should be p...

Nameless : written by Grant Morrison; illustrated by Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn (2015): Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham forge a ...

The Klarkash-Ton Cycle: Clark Ashton Smith's Cthulhu Mythos Fiction : edited and with notes by Robert M. Price (Collected 2008): Chaosi...

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft (1927/first published 1943): The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath wasn't published ...

The Mask of Cthulhu (1958) by August Derleth, containing the following stories: "The Return of Hastur" (1939);  "The Whippo...

Black Wings of Cthulhu 2 (2012): edited by S.T. Joshi, containing the following stories: And the Sea Gave Up the Dead by Jason C. Eckhardt;...

The Hastur Cycle (2nd revised edition) (1996; 2007): edited by Robert M. Price, containing the following stories: Carcosa (1969) by Richard...

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : edited by John Joseph Adams (2009), containing the following stories: The Doctor's Case (...

The Evil People : edited by Peter Haining (1968) containing the following stories: The Nocturnal Meeting by William Harrison Ainsworth; The ...

Nameless Places : edited by Gerald W. Page, containing the following stories: Glimpses by A. A. Attanasio; The Night of the Unicorn by Thoma...

Lovecraft's Legacy : edited by Robert E. Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg, (1990) containing the following stories: A Secret of the Hear...

Future Lovecraft : edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, including the following stories and poems (2011): In This Brief Inter...

The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene (2005): Brian Keene enjoys ending the world. A lot. And while he's a very specifically American horr...

Mr. X by Peter Straub (1999): Very much a transitional novel for Straub between his particular form of literary horror and a much more post...

The Ithaqua Cycle : edited by Robert M. Price (1998), containing the following stories: The Wendigo (1910) by Algernon Blackwood; The Thing...

Reassuring Tales  (2006) by T.E.D. Klein, containing the following stories: Camera Shy (1988); Growing Things (1999); Curtains for Nat Cr...

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron (Collected 2007) containing the following stories: Old Virginia (2003); Shiva, Open Yo...

Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors : written by Robert E. Howard; edited by David Drake (1987); containing the following stories and po...

The Black Druid and Other Stories by Frank Belknap Long, containing the following stories: "Death-Waters", "The Ocean-Leech...

Neonomicon : written by Alan Moore with Antony Johnston; illustrated by Jacen Burroughs (2003, 2010-2011): Winner of the first-ever Bram ...