Horrors & Abominations: 24 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos

Enter a midnight world of grotesque creatures and ancient deities from nightmare dimensions. HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS presents 24 stories of Lovecraftian fantasy and horror.Learn the unholy secrets of such malevolent beings as Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Azalareon, Mother Hydra, the King in Yellow, and Yagdolak. Discover the evil activities of the Tillinghast and Delapore families ... wicked Mrs. Veng and her horrendous tenant, Dr. Brandywine ... and the unspeakable, mutated son of King Tutankhamun. Stories in this collection include "The Abominations Of Nephren-Ka," "Coins From Y'ha-nthlei," "The Blasphemy In The Canopic Jar," "The Curse Of The Tillinghasts," "The Colossus In The Catacombs," "The Nightmare In Delapore Tower," "The Thing From Beyond The Living Door," "The Testament Of Cthulhu" and many more.These stories represent many of the writing duo's most unearthly Cthulhu Mythos tales. McLaughlin and Sheehan were Guests of Honor at the Necronomicon 2023 convention in Tampa, FL.

About the Author

MARK McLAUGHLIN is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author whose earliest works were published in literary journals during his teen years. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in more than 1,000 magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies, including CEMETERY DANCE, MIDNIGHT PREMIERE, DARK ARTS, LIVING DEAD 2, WRITER'S DIGEST, GALAXY, TOASTMASTER MAGAZINE, and two volumes of YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES (DAW Books). He is also an experienced public relations specialist. He is the author of the novels HUMAN DOLL, a tale of suspense, murder, and the entertainment industry ... THE HELL NEXT DOOR, an adventure set in the after-life ... and INJECTABLES, a work of Lovecraftian horror.Wildside Press has released a mammoth collection of McLaughlin's fiction: THE WEIRD WORLD OF MARK McLAUGHLIN MEGAPACK®. In addition, McLaughlin is the author of many other solo fiction collections, including AS OSIRIS WILLS, BEST LITTLE WITCH-HOUSE IN ARKHAM, MIDNIGHT PET SHOW, EMPRESS OF THE LIVING DEAD, DIMENSION OF MONSTERS, URBAN MONSTERS, UMBRA SAPIENS, THE SPIDERWEB TREE, and HIDEOUS FACES, BEAUTIFUL SKULLS. McLaughlin is the author of many works in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft. Story collections in this vein, co-written with his best friend, Michael Sheehan, Jr., include THE WRATH OF NYARLATHOTEP, HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS, NIGHTMARES & TENTACLES, WEIRD WORSHIP, THE HOUSE OF THE OCELOT, THE PRISONER OF CARCOSA, and CITY OF LIVING SHADOWS. McLaughlin is the coauthor, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of THE GOSSAMER EYE, which won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry. Also, Mark is the author of the poetry collections, CRUSHED VELVET, THE EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH, and PROFESSOR LAGUNGO'S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES: INCREASED INVENTORY.

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