“The Red Brain” Slipcased Signed Limited Edition No. 198 of 250 [Very Fine]

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Dark Regions Press, LLC (November 26, 2017). "The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mytho". Deluxe Signed Limited Edition. Slipcased Edition. Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Signed by eight contributors. 270 pages. This anthology of Cthulhu Mythos fiction is edited by S. T. Joshi.

• Ray Garton (Author)
• Edith Miniter (Author)
• Donald Wandrei (Author)
• Clark Aston Smith (Author)
• C. Hall Thompson (Author)
• Ramsey Campbell (Author)
• Thomas Ligotti (Author)
• S.T. Joshi (Editor)
• Samuel Araya (Illustrator)
• M. Wayne Miller (Illustrator)

Contents

"Introduction" by S. T. Joshi
"Falco Ossifracus: by Mr. Goodguile" by Edith Miniter
"The Red Brain" by Donald Wandrei
"The Beast of Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith
"The Will of Claude Ashur" by C. Hall Thompson
"The Pattern" by Ramsey Campbell
"The Sect of the Idiot" by Thomas Ligotti
"Meryphillia" by Brian McNaughton
"The Peddler's Tale; or, Isobel's Revenge" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
"Integrity" by Jonathan Thomas
"Pickman's Lazarus" by W. H. Pugmire
"The Crimson Fog" by Mark Samuels
"Misanthrope" by Ray Garton

Cthulhu Mythos

“Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unsparing realism, (not catch-penny romanticism) but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown—the shadow-haunted Outside—we must remember to leave our humanity—and terrestrialism at the threshold. „
~ HPL , Selected Letters 2.284

This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H.P. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used — and continue to use — to craft their stories. The term itself was coined by the writer August Derleth. Although this legendarium is also sometimes called the Lovecraft Mythos, most notably by the Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, it has long since moved beyond Lovecraft's original conception.