Just published: my book Tales of Lovecraftian Cats (2010). I experimentally used old and obscure public domain horror / fantasy stories as scaffolding to write new Lovecraftian stories. All the stories feature Lovecraft’s favorite animal — the cat.

In this experiment I take my cue from Lovecraft — who was 50 years ahead of the curve on transformative fan works and collaborative mythos-building — since he once wrote in a letter of 1933…

“Someone ought to go over the cheap magazines and pick out story-germs which have been ruined by popular treatment; then getting the authors’ permission and actually writing the stories.”

My book includes two new prequels to “The Horror at Red Hook”, and a new Randolph Carter story, as well as my translation and modern adaptation of the first English novel, Beware the Cat (1584). There’s a limited edition hardback (please contact me), and an affordable paperback edition available from the link above.

A free sample is here (PDF link). I’ve made sure to embed the fonts used, but you never can tell with Adobe — please comment if you don’t see an elegant layout. It probably means that the fonts didn’t embed properly.