Cold War Cthulhu

ABOUT THIS BOOK
The concept for COLD WAR CTHULHU is a narrower focus on the premise of my first PS anthology, THAT IS NOT DEAD. If the Old Ones have been lurking about since elder eons, people should have noticed in periods other the timeframe of the original Lovecraft stories. THAT IS NOT DEAD took the premise back into remote Antiquity. COLD WAR CTHULHU brings it forward to the period of about 1950-1989.

Surely with all that spying and top secret research both the CIA and the KGB must have known something about the eldritch forces that haunt our planet and tried to make use of everything from dimensional gates to Deep Ones to shoggoths. But at the same time this is all secret history, not alternate history. Many of the readers lived through this period and we know that Cthulhu did not rise and devastate the world any more than Godzilla really stomped Tokyo. We what really happened? The stories were required to dovetail into known and remembered history, even though what happened behind the scenes and undercover may be very different from what the public was aware of.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Nyarlathotep at Checkpoint Charlie — Darrell Schweitzer
Cold Warrior — Geoffrey Hart
Red Star at R’lyeh — Susan Shwartz
Beyond the Couch — Don Webb
Project NAHAB — Stephen Woodworth
A Resonant Darkness — Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Ghost Station Zero — Robert Jeschonek
Innsmouth Vulgaris — Tim Curran
The Skywatchers — Paul Di Filippo
The Iceworm Cometh — Gordon Linzner
Spheres — Harry Turtledove
The Cosmic Congregation — Will Murray
The Well — Tim Lees
L’Appel du Vide — Amdi Silvestri
The Endless Black Cathedral — Nicholas Kaufmann
A Simpler Solution — Frank Schildiner
Midnight Climax — Cody Goodfellow
My Best Friend the Spy — Darrell Schweitzer
Café of the World — Don Webb
The Deepwater Incident — Adrian Cole