COPPING SQUID and Other Mythos Tales
by MICHAEL SHEA
Edited with an introduction by S.T. JOSHI
Art by STEVEN GILBERTS
Available Oct.31, 2009
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"The light-crowned bridges, the long, dazzling shorelines––these seemed for all their expansiveness a trivial, weightless decoration, a constellation of fireflies hanging between the abyss of night above, and the oceanic gulf below. And that gulf breathed, as the sea always breathes, but this respiration thrummed with an added presence almost as titanic as the waters themselves, filling those waters with a darker, mightier will than their own, a lurking purpose, the waiting hunger of Something that wore the ocean like a garment."
––from "Dagoniad"
Rocked by the gentle sea, the City sleeps; but its dreams are not its own…
With eight psychotropic visions of damnation and transformation in the urban coral reef of San Francisco, COPPING SQUID forms a mosaic of otherworldly menace shot through with glimpses of awe-inspiring majesty: of invisible outsiders and self-medicating seekers whose desperate prayers and hidden rituals lead them to behold their alien reflections in the all-seeing eyes of the secret masters of creation.
With the deceptive ease and streetwise enlightenment of a weird storytelling master, Michael Shea fearlessly sounds the unplumbed depths of the Cthulhu Mythos to witness visions from which traditional cosmic horror has always averted its dark-adapted gaze.
Contents: "The Battery," "Tsathoggua," "The Presentation," "The Pool," "Copping Squid," "Dagoniad," "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit," "Fat-Face."
Available in quality illustrated hardcover and a signed, limited edition with distinctive jacket art: October 28, 2009
RAVENOUS DUSK
by CODY GOODFELOW
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ISBN 0-9704000-1-2
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EVOLUTION IS EVOLVING
In the Seven Devils Mountains of Northern Idaho, in the radioactive shadow of Chernobyl, their numbers grow. They gather to be cured of their cancer, but they become much more. Soon, they will be One. When they come into their kingdom, all plant and animal life on earth will be rendered obsolete, and a billion-year old experiment called evolution will have reached its logical conclusion.
CATASTROPHE
As Special Agent Martin Cundieffe pursues the trail of the mutant cult, he finds a deeper secret that reaches into the hidden heart of American power, and leaves him powerless and alone before the real enemy. Stella Orozco has traded her freedom and her humanity for something more. When her transformation is complete, she will become a goddess-and lose her mind.
Sgt. Zane Storch is a soldier without an army, a species of one fighting both sides for his own survival and sanity in a body that is fast becoming his own worst enemy. How many times will he fight to defend a nation and a species that shuns him as an abomination? How many times will he die for them?
CREATION
As the Mission heats up its genocidal campaign against Radiant Dawn, the armies of the mysterious Dr. Keogh labor to open a sealed pre-human tomb in the Iraqi wasteland. This forgotten place will decide the outcome of the last war of natural selection, for what lies beyond the crumbling wall is no less than the unspeakable truth about the origin of life on earth-and what's coming next.
RADIANT DAWN
by CODY GOODFELOW
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ISBN 0-9704000-0-4
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THE BEGINNING IS NEAR…
From a ruined chemical weapons bunker in Iraq to a shallow grave in California's San Andreas Fault, the lines are drawn for a shadow war that will decide who-or what-will inherit the earth and reign as the next dominant species.
SELECTION
The escalating conflict engulfs the lives of three born survivors: a broken veteran of the Gulf War; a fiercely independent young nurse dying of cancer; and a brilliant novice FBI agent. Plunged into an arena where the stakes are survival or extinction, each must choose a side-between a militia of rogue government scientists and an enigmatic messiah who holds the cure for death itself, and the key to a new form of life.
MUTATION
Trapped in a genocidal war the government will do anything to conceal, where top secret military technologies vie with the primal power of evolution unleashed, they will struggle to stay alive-and stay human.
IN THE SHADOW OF SWORDS: A Tale Of The Cthulhu Mythos
by CODY GOODFELOW
August 1, 1998
Baghdad, Iraq
For seven years, the United Nations Special Commission has tried to strip the defiant Iraqi war machine of its chemical and biological arsenal. For seven years, Warren Revell and his international team of scientists have beat their heads against a wall of deception and force, and discovered nothing.
As they prepare to go home in defeat, an intercepted transmission from a secret chemical weapons installation called Tiamat forces them into a rogue inspection to prevent an unthinkable disaster.
It's leaking into the control room!
Remain calm. Everything is under control.
Give me the combination for the door! For the love of Allah, let us out!
This is what they think they've been waiting for. But as they get closer to the truth, they find it is much more than a question of contraband weaponry. A secret deadlier than nerve gas and older than humankind is waiting for them at Tiamat: waiting for them to discover it, and let it out.