Cthulhu Unbound Anthology Released

Permuted Press officially published their Cthulhu Unbound anthology this week. It's a "genre-blending" collection of new Cthulhu Mythos short stories that seeks to mix Lovecraftian elements with other types of literature: Westerns, sci-fi, superhero pulp, etc. Some familiar Mythos writers, as well as newcomers, have tales placed in this book. The publisher's blog gives a fuller description of the new collection:

Imagine being free. Free from everything that defines you, that makes you easily recognizable as who you are. Welcome to a place where bleak noir cityscapes share a Technicolor sky with combat fighters, where you can find gunslingers from the Old West and a lost chapter from a literary classic, all with something in common: Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. This is a place where the Crawling Chaos has to solve his own murder and the Old Ones come up against the Gods of Las Vegas, a place where the new player in London's underground isn't human and masked heroes go toe-to-tentacle with eldritch horrors. This is a Mythos collection unlike any other. This is Lovecraft in many colors, many guises. This is Cthulhu--Unbound!

This certainly sounds like one of the more interesting experiments in trying to squeeze new styles and scenarios out of the old Cthulhu Mythos. Moreover, it should bolster Permuted's appeal among readers of horror outside the zombie fan circles they normally serve. A second volume, Cthulhu Unbound 2, is also planned for release later this year.

-Grim Blogger