Best Mythos Tales, Volume Two

Brian Lumley

Haggopian & Other Stories: Best Mythos Tales, Volume Two

Copyright © 2008

by Brian Lumley. All rights reserved.

Dust jacket and interior artwork Copyright © 2008

by Bob Eggleton. All rights reserved.

Interior design Copyright © 2008

by Desert Isle Design, LLC. All rights reserved.

Electronic Edition

ISBN 9781596064270

Subterranean Press

PO Box 190106

Burton, MI 48519

www.SubterraneanPress.com

“The Caller of The Black,” from the collection of the same name, Arkham House, 1971.

“Haggopian,” from F&SF No. 265, 1973.

“Cement Surroundings,” from Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Arkham House, 1969.

“The House of Cthulhu,” from Whispers No. 1, 1973.

“The Night Sea-Maid Went Down,” from The Caller of The Black, Arkham House, 1971.

“Name and Number,” from Kadath, Vol. 2 No. 1, July 1982.

“Recognition,” from Weirdbook No. 15, 1981.

“Curse of the Golden Guardians,” from The Compleat Khash, Vol. 1, Weirdbook Press, 1991. “Aunt Hester,” from The Satyr’s Head, Corgi, 1975.

“The Kiss of Bugg-Shash,” from Cthulhu 3, Spectre Press, 1978.

“De Marigny’s Clock,” from The Caller of The Black, Arkham House, 1971.

“Mylakhrion the Immortal,” from Fantasy Tales, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1977.

“The Sister City,” from Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

, Arkham House, 1969.

“What Dark God?” from Nameless Places, Arkham House, 1975.

“The Statement of Henry Worthy,” from The Horror at Oakdeene, Arkham House, 1977.

“Dagon’s Bell,” from Weirdbook 23/24, 1988.

“The Thing from the Blasted Heath,” from The Caller of The Black, Arkham House, 1971.

“Dylath-Leen,” from The Caller of The Black, 1971.

“The Mirror of Nitocris,” from The Caller of The Black, 1971.

“The Second Wish,” from New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Arkham House, 1980.

“The Hymn,” from HPL’s Magazine of Horror No. 3, 2006.

“Synchronicity or Something,” from the chapbook of the same name, Dagon Press, 1989.

“The Black Recalled,” from the World Fantasy Convention Book, 1983.

“The Sorcerer’s Dream,” from Whispers 13/14, 1979.

CONTENTS

Foreword

The Caller of The Black

Haggopian

Cement Surroundings

The House of Cthulhu

The Night Sea-Maid Went Down

Name and Number

Recognition

Curse of the Golden Guardians

Aunt Hester

The Kiss of Bugg-Shash

De Marigny’s Clock

Mylakhrion the Immortal

The Sister City

What Dark God?

The Statement of Henry Worthy

Dagon’s Bell

The Thing from the Blasted Heath

Dylath-Leen

The Mirror of Nitocris

The Second Wish

The Hymn

Synchronicity or Something

The Black Recalled

The Sorcerer’s Dream

Dedication:

To the Memory of August Derleth

FOREWORD:

Notes on the Cthulhu Mythos,

August Derleth, and Arkham House

This book of short stories is presented as a companion volume to my Subterranean Press collection of Cthulhu Mythos novellas, and to repeat what I said in the introduction to that book, it isn’t my intention to offer any kind of in-depth definition of the Mythos here. That has already been done by too many others. Also, because it seems you’ve opted to read this book, I think I can be reasonably sure that you are already familiar with H. P. Lovecraft’s most enduring, most fascinating creation. (Well, at least he created its roots, since when the vast bulk of the Mythos—much like the gradually expanding acreage of diseased earth and vegetation around HPL’s “Blasted Heath”—just keeps on growing, though by no means as slowly!)