Eldritch Chrome

Eldritch Chrome is a collection of cyberpunk stories that run on Lovecraftian horror. The authors are David Conyers, D. L. Snell, Nicholas Cook, Peter Rawlik and Robert Price. Each tale takes place in an electronic society that has gone badly wrong, and each follows people stuck at its lowest level.

The heroes here are seedier and poorer than the stoic New Englanders of classic Lovecraft, and they care less about passing moral judgement. They still meet the same horrors: monstrous entities and fiends from beyond space and time.

The heroes may carry high-tech weapons and other modern advantages. These count for little. The beings they face have no use for time, and their technology is so advanced that what they do looks supernatural, or like magic. No human gains an edge against them.

In this setting, mythos horrors lurk at the margins of society and mythos-altered technology infects human bodies. Dark gods lurk in cyberspace, and huge corporations rule everyday life while bowing to entities hostile to humankind. The style is dark, gritty and film-noir.