AN ANTHOLOGY  edited by Darrell Schweitzer
PUBLICATION DATE  May 2025
COVER ART  Bob Eggleton
INTRODUCTION Darrell Schweitzer
PAGES 375
ISBN  978-1-80394-532-3

EDITION
Jacketed Hardcover anthology limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the contributors.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The concept for COLD WAR CTHULHU is a narrower focus on the premise of my first PS anthology, THAT IS NOT DEAD. If the Old Ones have been lurking about since elder eons, people should have noticed in periods other the timeframe of the original Lovecraft stories. THAT IS NOT DEAD took the premise back into remote Antiquity. COLD WAR CTHULHU brings it forward to the period of about 1950-1989.

Surely with all that spying and top secret research both the CIA and the KGB must have known something about the eldritch forces that haunt our planet and tried to make use of everything from dimensional gates to Deep Ones to shoggoths. But at the same time this is all secret history, not alternate history. Many of the readers lived through this period and we know that Cthulhu did not rise and devastate the world any more than Godzilla really stomped Tokyo. We what really happened? The stories were required to dovetail into known and remembered history, even though what happened behind the scenes and undercover may be very different from what the public was aware of.

CONTENTS

Here's the full line up of contributors . .

• Introduction: Nyarlathotep at Checkpoint Charlie — Darrell Schweitzer
• Cold Warrior — Geoffrey Hart
• Red Star at R’lyeh — Susan Shwartz
• Beyond the Couch — Don Webb
• Project NAHAB — Stephen Woodworth
• A Resonant Darkness — Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Ghost Station Zero — Robert Jeschonek
• Innsmouth Vulgaris — Tim Curran
• The Skywatchers — Paul Di Filippo
• The Iceworm Cometh — Gordon Linzner
• Spheres — Harry Turtledove
• The Cosmic Congregation — Will Murray
• The Well — Tim Lees
• L’Appel du Vide — Amdi Silvestri
• The Endless Black Cathedral — Nicholas Kaufmann
• A Simpler Solution — Frank Schildiner
• Midnight Climax — Cody Goodfellow
• My Best Friend the Spy — Darrell Schweitzer
• Café of the World — Don Webb
• The Deepwater Incident — Adrian Cole