Dark Wisdom: Tales of the Old Ones

by Gary Myers

Gary Myers first appeared on the Lovecraftian scene in 1970, when August Derleth’s Arkham House published his earliest Lovecraftian dreamworld fantasies in The Arkham Collector . He reached a peak some five years later, when Arkham House published his first collection, The House of the Worm . Myers’s second collection, Dark Wisdom , signals a departure from the first. It is a collection of twelve modern Cthulhu Mythos stories. Each story is written around one of the central tropes of the classic a book like the Necronomicon , a race like the Deep Ones or a demonic god like Cthulhu himself. Each story affirms the enduring power of those books, those races and those gods to leave their terrible mark on the modern world.

This new edition is filled out with an early Myers novella, a gothic nightmare previously published as “The City of the Dead” but appearing here for the first time under its original title, “Interregnum.”

268 pages, Hardcover

Published March 29, 2022

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