Goat Mother and Others

[[Image:

Goat Mother and Others

Details

Publisher: Oakland, CA: Chaosium Inc., February 2015

Page Count: 448 p.

Editor: Chief Charlie Krank & Nick Nacario

Artist: Victor Leza, cover art & Illustration

Artist: C. George Porter and Gregorio Montejo, Interior Illustration

Summary

                                                                                      THE COMPLETE MYTHOS FICTION OF PIERRE V. COMTOIS

In the glory-days of pulp magazines many editors abused and exploited their writers. They would hand a writer a piece of cover art and ask for a story crafted to match that art. Some of these authors were quite skilled at writing marketable tales, but the prize must go to the extraordinarily versatile Pierre Comtois — always happy to craft a story for any occasion, in any sub-genre, to go with any wacky title.

Pierre Comtois embeds his horror stories in the midst of real historical and personal circumstances. His devotion to pulp fiction is evident on every page but, like other skilled pulp writers, he shows the influence of classic literature.

In these nineteen stories of Lovecraftian horror, he takes us from the farm country of Dunwich to the darkest corners of Central Asia, from Arkham to the Russian steppe, from the Arizona desert to the frozen landscape of Antarctica. Here is a gateway to the disturbing, the horrific, and the shuddery strangeness that gripped you the first time you discovered the off-trail fascination of the Cthulhu Mythos!

Written and selected by Pierre Comtois.

Contents

• "Author's Preface"
• "Introdution"
• "Goat Mother"
• "High and Dry"
• "The Old Ones’ Signs"
• "The Deep Cellars"
• "The Legacy Of Acheron"
• "Aqua Salaria"
• "Dreams of Yig"
• "Take Care What You Seek"
• "The Country of the Wind"
• "What the Sea Gives Up"
• "Footsteps in the Sky"
• "Zzzzzzzz!"
• "Second Death"
• "The King in Yellow"
• "The Pallid Masque"
• "Final Plea"
• "Mask Of The Puppet Lord"
• "A Question of Meaning"
• "Thoughts on Lovecraft and his Mythos"
• "Afterword

Comments/Trivia

Chaosium publication CHA6060. ISBN-10: 1568824033. ISBN-13: 978-1568824031 . Part of the Call of Cthulhu Fiction line.