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Haunted Futures (Paperback)
Salome Jones, Warren Ellis, Tricia Sullivan, Jeff Noon, Sl Huang, …
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It's a treacherous region, the future. You can't see far, and the
footing is uncertain at best. Ghosts and phantoms stalk the haze
around you, and their chittering will lead you astray. There are no
maps to this territory, but sometimes a brave soul strides out
ahead into the haunted shadows. Those who return to the campfire of
the now often bear tales of the visions seared into their minds
while they were out there, in the mists. We have scoured the earth
for these most daring of travellers - the ones who have ventured
out into the future and returned wraith-laden. Fifteen of them
agreed to share their stories. Their enthralling accounts will
seize you, and you might find it difficult to fight free of them
afterwards, but any risks are overshadowed by the dazzling wonders
that await. So muster your courage, and dive into the pages.
Haunted Futures of all kinds await you, with open arms and
suspiciously toothy smiles.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,and with strange aeons even
death may die." At the time of his death in 1937, American horror
writer H.P. Lovecraft was virtually unknown. The power of his
stories was too great to contain, however. As the decades slipped
by, his dark visions laid down roots in the collected imagination
of mankind, and they grew strong. Now Cthulhu is a name known to
many and, deep under the seas, Lovecraft's greatest creation
becomes restless...This volume brings together seventeen masterful
tales of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft's work. In his
fiction, humanity is a tiny, accidental drop of light and life in
the endless darkness of an uncaring universe - a darkness populated
by vast, utterly alien horrors. Our continued survival relies upon
our utter obscurity, something that every fresh scientific wonder
threatens to shatter.; The dazzling stories in Cthulhu Lives! show
the disastrous folly of our arrogance. We think ourselves the first
masters of Earth, and the greatest, and we are very badly mistaken
on both counts. Inside these covers, you'll find a lovingly-curated
collection of terrors and nightmares, of catastrophic encounters to
wither the body and blight the soul. We humans are inquisitive
beings, and there are far worse rewards for curiosity than mere
death. The truth is indeed out there - and it hungers.
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