Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2

Cthulhu Deep Down Under anthology series

by Steve Proposch (Editor), Peter Rawlik (Introduction), Christopher Sequiera (Editor)

In tribute to H. P. Lovecraft, this book is an assortment of the finest Australian dark fiction, bringing you a second volume of Lovecraftian stories of wonder and dread. Featured are new tales by Silvia Brown, Robert Hood, Kirstyn McDermott, and Lee Murray. The collection takes readers back below the equator, into the bizarre and headlong towards horror. From mist-shrouded peaks and canyons of Melanesian islands, through rainforests and scorching deserts of the island continent of Terra Australis, and across the Tasman Sea to the inhospitable hinterlands of New Zealand.

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies

220 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2018

Reviews

[Jon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like its predecessor, it's an anthology, so some stories are better (whatever that means to you) than others. I particularly enjoyed "Sleeping Dogs," by Kirstyn McDermott. Another one, which I won't name, I did not. YMMV.

[Stephen Herczeg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book of stories with various depths of Lovecraftian/Cthulhu lore and influence from bunch of established and new antipodean authors.

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly decent short stories, though a couple did feel like they were already written and later had a Lovecraftian element bolted on in order to be published in this volume.

[Matthew Morrison]

*** Read for the Australian Shadows Awards ***