Great compilation of stories, lots of different situations and locales (Vikings, samurai, nuns, Pirates, gladiators, consecrated virgins, etc), female characters and a dearth of happy endings.

Shotguns are better, I suppose.

I was a fool and didn’t immediately realize this was very much my shit. The title is a bit twee, lacking the immediately evocative potency of a Children of Old Leech or Wide Carnivorous Sky. I picked it up on a whim, mostly on the strength of Jesse and Molly’s names (and I didn’t realize they didn’t have entries of their own). The fact that it was explicitly tied to Lovecraft put me off more than anything; I’ve never understood why people ever started treating his stuff as an IP instead of a gen...

I read this collection of short stories slowly over several months. Any collection like this is bound to be uneven. 22 short stories by 22 authors all commissioned brand-new just for this anthology; they haven't scoured existing stories and selected the "best" of them. And I think the editors were brilliant to realize the overlap between old sword & sorcery stories -- with their dark gods and complicated morality -- and Lovecraft's own Cthulhu mythos and the potential of that intersection.I thin...

Note: I received a copy of this book from one of the editors in exchange for a review. This is an excerpt from my post on my own blog (jenna-bird.blogspot.com) about this book.===Most remarkable about this collection overall was the zest and gusto that I felt from many of the stories. I had a strong sense that this was reflective both of the authors and the editors in charge of the project.Hands down, my favorite of the lot was Orrin Grey's "A Circle That Ever Returneth In" which draws the reade...

As a lover of both a good swashbuckle and the Cthulhu mythos I was immediately pulled to Swords v. Cthulhu when I saw it.One of my favourites was 'Red Sails, Dark Moon' by Andrew S. Fuller, Lovecraft and pirates meet in a wonderful tale of derring do and monstrous presence, brilliantly pulp in its outlook but the writing takes it way above that.Another worth mentioning was 'Ordo Virturum' by Wendy N. Wagner, a verdant tale of ancient possession and nuns, ancient horrors return to complete arcane...

Read most of it, but skipped the last few short stories. As a collection of short stories, of course the book was hit and miss. Weird that the most compelling story was the one that was arguably the most racist. [SPOILERS AHEAD] But it's the one with colonizers (I think) and groups of army men from different countries tracking down missing people in the jungle. Then a bunch of tiny natives wearing human skins come running out and they gun them all down. It was... good! [SPOILERS END] Some storie...

Read my complete review here: https://larvalforms.wordpress.com/201...This is the kind of collection that makes you lie to yourself as you promise to read just one more story, just one more before you surrender to a nightmare-riddled sleep, but you’re not to be trusted and so the promises keep falling and breaking until dawn bullies the night away and reveals you, eyes dry and heart stammering and this beautiful big volume of short story-shaped terrors clutched in your trembling hands. But gratu...

There is so much here. I'm a sucker for Cthulhu Mythos related stories, and doubly so for swords and sorcery (big fan of Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard, etc.) so I enjoyed this anthology, which is a great marriage of both. The stories range from good to great. My favorites managed to couple the weird, grim ambiance of a Lovecraft tale with the self-interested cutthroat adventurer archetype. Some sexual content, so this anthology isn't for the younger set. Very enjoyable.

A wonderful anthology filled to the brim with guts, glory, and gore. Oh did I mention the nameless terrors as well? Full review to come.

Like any collection of short stories, this one is a mixed bag. This one more mixed than most. Many of the stories seem to be repeating the same formula, with only a coat of paint to change the setting. The best ones were the ones that did not fall into that formula! "The Lady of Shallot" by Carrie Vaughn was a nice twist on an old Arthurian classic. The twist is telegraphed pretty early on, but that just means the tension is trying to figure out when the bomb is going to go off. "Trespassers" by...

3.5 Stars

The title of this anthology is a little misleading, implying a sense of kitsch and lack of seriousness; this could not be further from the truth. The introduction discusses the fact that this falls more within the Conan-sequence sword and sorcery camp of fantasy, rather than high fantasy. I would say these stories go a step further than that. While I agree that sword and sorcery frequently incorporates Lovecraftian mythology elements, and are certainly dark and action packed, these particular st...

These stories were OK. There were a few relatively absorbing ones, but none that I felt really blew me away. A good number were fairly mediocre. I think I might be starting to tire of Cthulhu. One can't only take so many tentacles.

Hit and miss, as short stories often are. One I really enjoyed was “A Circle That Ever Returneth” by Orrin Grey, a fun choose your own adventure stuck in the middle of a bunch of other stories.

A collection of varied short stories that pit their main characters against all manner of lovecraftian horrors, in many different ways. As a whole, these stories bring a delightful mixture of horror, action/adventure, mystery and even some humor to the sub-genre that is eldritch horror. There was no story here that I outright disliked, though I have some I liked better than others, which is only human. I liked St. Baboloki's Hymn for Lost Girls for its dream-mood and folklore like tone. I liked

Peculiar recopilación de relatos publicada en inglés por stone skin press como acompañante de otro volumen titulado Shotguns v. Cthulhu, unidos por la intención de contar historias diferentes de los Mitos, con una mayor dosis de acción y aventura pero sin perder de vista el referente de horror de Lovecraft. La lista de autores carece de grandes nombres, muchos de ellos no tienen obras traducidas, siendo los más conocidos para mi Johnatan L. Howard (Carter & Lovecraft) o Adam Scott Glancy (coauto...