Arkham Tales is a 2006 Cthulhu Mythos anthology

Cthulhu Mythos anthology

A Cthulhu Mythos anthology is a type of short story collection that contains stories written in or related to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction launched by H. P. Lovecraft...

 published by Chaosium

Chaosium

Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods...

. It is a shared universe

Shared universe

A shared universe is a fictional universe to which more than one writer contributes. Work set in a shared universe share characters and other elements with varying degrees of consistency. Shared universes are contrasted with collaborative writing, in which multiple authors work on a single story....

 anthology, meaning all the stories occur in the same fictional universe. The stories all take place in the fictional city of Arkham

Arkham

Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers....

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

, spanning a time period from 1873 to the present day. The stories all feature elements of the Cthulhu Mythos

Cthulhu Mythos

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...

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The anthology is edited by William Jones.

Contents

• "Mysterious Dan's Legacy" by Matthew Baugh
• "Vaughn's Diary" by Robert Vaughn
• "The Orb" by Tony Campbell
• "The Nether Collection" by Cody Goodfellow
• "Worms" by Pat Harrigan
• "They Thrive in Darkness" by Ron Shiflet
• "What Sorrows May Come" by Lee Clark Zumpe
• "Arkham Pets" by James Ambuehl
• "Small Ghost" by Michael Minnis
• "Burnt Tea" by Michael Dziesinski
• "Arkham Rain" by John Goodrich (YBF&H Honorable Mention)
• "Regrowth" by David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  
• "The Idea of Fear" by C.J. Henderson (YBF&H Honorable Mention)
• "Disconnected" by Brian M. Sammons (YBF&H Honorable Mention)
• "The Lady in the Grove" by Scott Lette
• "On Leave to Arkham" by Bill Bilstad
• "Geometry of the Soul" by Jason Andrew