Lovecraft and Mythos anthologies? There's so many.

Quote Originally Posted by miguel1984

-Idle Days on the Yann, by Lord Dunsany

That story is beautiful. I am now motivated to reread.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

The Aklonomicon (ed) Ivan McCann & Joseph S Pulver Sr
Eldritch Chrome (ed) Brian M Sammons & Glynn Owen Barrass.

[Ucasuni]

LeFanu — Dreams of Shadow and Smoke (ed. B Showers & J Rockhill)

[Draugen]

An anthology that had a big effect on me was H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror edited by Stephen Jones. I was a teenager about the time it came out and had been introduced to HPL by a friend who loaned me the Harper-Collins paperbacks.

H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror starts with Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature and then goes on to select a short story by many of the authors mentioned by Lovecraft, each story prefaced with a quote from HPL's essay.

For me this book served as a gateway to Clark Ashton Smith, Machen, Hodgson, Blackwood and others. I can remember ordering a copy of The Three Imposters shortly after. How many countless others discovered these writers from Lovecraft's essay..

[Masonwire]

I've just come across this: Cumbrian Cthulhu

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Quote Originally Posted by Draugen

An anthology that had a big effect on me was H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror edited by Stephen Jones. I was a teenager about the time it came out and had been introduced to HPL by a friend who loaned me the Harper-Collins paperbacks. H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror starts with Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature and then goes on to select a short story by many of the authors mentioned by Lovecraft, each story prefaced with a quote from HPL's essay. For me this book served as a gateway to Clark Ashton Smith, Machen, Hodgson, Blackwood and others. I can remember ordering a copy of The Three Imposters shortly after. How many countless others discovered these writers from Lovecraft's essay..

This was actually the first horror book I ever bought. Previously I had only read a few Poe stories. I was looking to get into this stuff and what great luck that it had that essay!
It was a version retitled World's Greatest Horror Stories without the permission of Jones.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Tales Of Cthulhu Invictus (ed) Brian M Sammons
The Idolaters Of Cthulhu (ed) H David Blalock

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Delta Green: Extraordinary Renditions (ed) Shane Ivey
Arkham Tales (ed) William Jones
Frontier Cthulhu (ed) William Jones
High Seas Cthulhu (ed) William Jones
Horrors Beyond 1-2 (ed) William Jones
Hardboiled Cthulhu (ed) James Ambuehl
Disciples Of Cthulhu 1-2 (ed) Edward P Berglund
Lovecraft's Legacy (ed) Weinberg & Greenberg
Shadows Over Baker Street (ed) Reaves & Pelan
Shadow Of The Unknown (ed) AJ French
Torn Realities (ed) Paul Anderson

I should reserve judgment but the idea of mythos in overt action and detective, military, spies, cowboy combinations don't appeal to me at all. Especially with the large number of action orientated mythos novels.
How do you guys feel about such combinations? Any combinations that pleasantly surprised you?

[hopfrog]

I do not care for military Mythos stories, although I did write a wee vignette for WORLD WAR CTHULHU. I hate tales in which Lovecraft is presented as tough-guy detective (I don't think there have been too many, but the two I try'd to read didn't work for me, and there was a tv movie featuring Fred Ward as a tough-guy HPL). I would never read or write for anything like STEAMPUNK CTHULHU--just the idea bores me frightfully. I am, obviously, a hopeless traditionalist. What I love is to take aspects of a Lovecraft tale and weave my own idea around it--but some anthologists, such as Ellen Datlow, would instantly reject a story that does such a thing. I confess that, these days, the only time I read new Mythos fiction is when I appear in an anthology and then glance over the other stories in ye book.

[frenchphenom]

As far as Lovecraftian anthologies go, I'm not a big fan of most. For the most part, it all depends on the quality of the author and whether or not their usage of Lovecraft's IP (Dream Cycle or "Cthulhu Mythos" or others) overshadows their own ideas. I guess it goes without saying that most of August Dereleth's "collaborations" with Lovecraft are not my cup of tea. I think that's what I really like about Ligotti, his imagination is more than enough to incorporate Lovecraftian ideas and philosophy without succumbing to it entirely.