A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
Step into a world where ancient, unspeakable horrors lurk just beyond human comprehension. This collection gathers some of the most chilling tales from the Cthulhu Mythos, exploring the fragile boundaries of reality and sanity. Prepare for encounters with cosmic entities that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the universe. These stories will leave you questioning the true nature of existence.
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American paleontologist and writer of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards. Source: [Caitlín R. Kiernan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan) on Wikipedia.
C. Hall Thompson specializes in Cthulhu Mythos horror. He has compiled popular collections such as A Mountain Walked and The Red Brain, bringing together great tales from the genre.
Cody Goodfellow writes across the spectrum of dark speculative fiction, from the cosmic horror of Whispers from the Abyss Vol.2 and A Mountain Walked to the satirical Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He's also known for his contributions to zombie fiction with The Living Dead 2 and unsettling body horror in Body Shocks.
Cyrus Wraith Walker writes dark, imaginative stories, including the Cthulhu Mythos collection A Mountain Walked. He is also the author of the novel The Booking.
Jason V. Brock is the author of nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre. He writes stories that explore the darker corners of human experience.
Lois H. Gresh is an editor and author specializing in Lovecraftian horror and mystery. She edited the anthologies The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu and The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures. Her other work includes Best of Black Wings and Dreams from the Witch House.
Mearle Prout writes horror and speculative fiction. Their works include the cosmic horror collection A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos and the book Das rote Zimmer.
Michael Shea is the editor behind The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. He has a knack for finding the most compelling stories in the dark fantasy and horror genres.
Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire) is an English writer of novels, short fiction, comics, screenplays and audio drama. He worked as a journalist before moving into comics, where his DC series The Sandman, begun in 1989, recast the title character as Morpheus, lord of dreams, and became one of the most acclaimed comics of its era. His novels include Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett, as well as Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline and The Oc...
Ramsey Campbell (born in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets. - Wikipedia
Robert Barbour Johnson made his mark in weird fiction, particularly with his collection A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. His stories offer a classic take on cosmic horror for fans of the genre.
S.T. Joshi is a prominent editor and scholar of horror and weird fiction. He has curated essential collections like New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, and Nightmare's Realm. Joshi also compiled Graphic Classics--Ambrose Bierce.
Theodore "Eibon" Donald Klein (born July 15, 1947) is an American horror writer and editor. Klein has published very few works, but they have all achieved positive notice for their meticulous construction and subtle use of horror: critic S. T. Joshi writes, "In close to 25 years of writing Klein has only two books and a handful of scattered tales to his credit, and yet his achievement towers gigantically over that of his more prolific contemporaries". Source: [T. E. D. Klein](https://e...
Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is a contemporary American horror writer. His writings have been noted as being rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have overall been described by many critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction is pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in...
Walter C DeBill Jr. is an author in the Cthulhu Mythos tradition. His collection, A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, brings together classic and new weird fiction stories. He's a key voice for fans of cosmic horror.
W. H. Pugmire (1951-2019) was an American writer of Lovecraftian weird fiction, based in Seattle. Born William Harry Pugmire, they took the middle name Hopfrog after Poe's story and also published as Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire. Most of their fiction is set in the invented Sesqua Valley; S. T. Joshi called them the prose-poet of the horror field.