“Jeroboam Henley’s Debt” by Charles R. Saunders. © 2010 Charles R. Saunders. Originally published in Innsmouth Free Press (2010), Potboiler (1982). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Lost Stars” by Ann K. Schwader. © 2003 Ann K. Schwader. Originally published in Strange Stars & Alien Shadows. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Unthinkable” by Bruce Sterling. © 1991 Bruce Sterling. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Fat Face” by Michael Shea. © 1987 Michael Shea. Originally published as a chapbook by Axolotl Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins” by Molly Tanzer. © 2011 Molly Tanzer. Originally published in Historical Lovecraft, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Colder War” by Charles Stross. © 2000 Charles Stross. Originally published in Spectrum SF #3. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Lord of the Land” by Gene Wolfe. © 1995 by Gene Wolfe; first appeared in Cthulhu 2000; from Starwater Strains; reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.
About the Editor
Ross E. Lockhart is the managing editor of Night Shade Books. A lifelong fan of supernatural, fantastic, speculative, and weird fiction, he holds degrees in English from Sonoma State University (BA) and San Francisco State University (MA). He lives in an old church in Petaluma, CA, with his wife Jennifer, hundreds of books, and a small, ravenous dog that he believes may be one of the Elder Gods. The Book of Cthulhu is his first anthology.