With Cath Laura’s new romantic cosmic horror novel Call Of Cthulhu: Secrets & Sacrifices (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the good people at Aconynte Books are kicking off a new series, one connected to Chaosium’s table-top role-playing game Call Of Cthulhu.
In the following email interview, Lauria discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as how it connects to the game.
As a novel connected to the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired cosmic horror board game Arkham Horror, David Annandale’s Arkham Horror: In The Coils Of The Labyrinth (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) is obviously as inspired and influenced by the writings of the iconic (and problematic) Lovecraft as it is by the game itself. But as Annandale notes in the following email interview about it, this isn’t the first time he’s dealt with this kind of darkness.
Thanks to such iconic horror stores as “The Call Of Cthulhu,” “At The Mountains Of Madness,” “The Dunwich Horror,” and more, writer H.P. Lovecraft has become one of the more inventive and influential writers of the 20th century…and the 21st. Just as such disciples as Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro, Metallca’s James Hetfield, or his fellow writers Stephen King, Clive Barker, Mike Mignola, and Neil Gaiman. But what kind of man comes up with such twisted tales? This is the subject of W. Scott Poole‘s In The Mountains Of Madness: The Life And Extraordinary Afterlife Of H.P. Lovecraft (paperback, digital). Though in talking to Poole about the book, he revealed that this isn’t a conventional literary biography.