Shane Jiraiya Cummings
Shane Jiraiya CummingsCthulhu's Dark Cults

Cthulhu's Dark Cults

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Cthulhu's Dark Cults

Chaosium's "Call of Cthulhu" is an endless source of imagination of all things dark and mysterious. Here we journey across the globe to witness the numerous and diverse cults that worship Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones.

About Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Shane Jiraiya Cummings has been acknowledged as "one of Australia’s leading voices in dark fantasy". Shane is the author of the forthcoming Yokai Wars series (Circle of Tears, Clockwork Legion, and Blight of the Underworld) and the dark fiction books The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, Shards, the Apocrypha Sequence (Deviance, Divinity, Insanity, and Inferno), and the Ravenous Gods cycle (Requiem for the Burning God and Dreams of Destruction). He has won the Australian Shadows Award and two Ditmar Awards, and he has been nominated for more than twenty other major awards, including Spain's Premios Ignotus. Shane is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and former Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association. When he is not writing, Shane is an editor and journalist by day.

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As a big fan of HP Lovecraft, I'm also unavoidably a fan of Chaosium's collections of Mythos-related original fiction. This book is, as others I've read, very good, over all.
The flavor of most of these stories is that of a pulp adventure story, with occult overtones, rather than horror. But that's ok.
A bit of a spoiler, but the stories in this collection are connected. That doesn't become apparent until you're halfway through it, but the connections are so contrived that they grate on the mind of the reader.
Cthulhu's Dark Cults is the latest offering from Chaosium in the Call of Cthulhu fiction series. Lovecraft is getting more attention than ever before, CoC has been a popular role playing game for years, the Cthulhu fiction market is booming and Dungeon & Dragons based books are best sellers, so it was only a matter of time before Chaosium took the plunge.
After reading Cthulhu's Dark Cults my interest in Lovecraftian horror changed... Before all I must say that Lovecraftian Horror is my favourite type/kind of horror.
A solid short story collection. I feel that the overall quality of the stories is higher than most of the similar collections in Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu fiction line.
This is a very consistent anthology, none of the stories are terrible, but none really stand out either. The stories are very loosely connected, with some characters from earlier stories being referred to in later stories.

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