The Kindle edition saw the light of day just before the most recent New Year's, but the big old paperback edition of Summer of Lovecraft is now roaming about in the wild. My contributor copy arrived from Dark Regions today. This one features my tale "Short Wave," which, for my part, I consider one of my most eerie, unsettling works of short fiction.
In the summer of 1969, a couple of teenage boys find an old short-wave radio. Man has, for the first time, set foot on the moon, and although the boys realize it's a silly idea, they decide to try contacting the astronauts of Apollo 11 on their radio. To their shock, a voice responds to their attempts—but it is immediately clear to them that the voice is not of human origin. They soon realize that something—an intelligence not of this earth—has taken notice of them. And now, no matter what they do or where they go, they cannot escape the malevolent attention of this unknown intelligence from outer space.
CTHULHU MEETS FLOWER POWER in this weird, wild, trippy, far-out, cosmic, and horrific anthology. Summer of Lovecraft - Cosmic Horror in the 1960s, edited by Brian M. Sammons & Glynn Owen Barrass, published by Dark Regions Press.
Night Trippers by Lois H. Gresh
Operation Alice by Pete Rawlik
The Summer of Love by C.J. Henderson
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Sullivan by Lee Clark Zumpe
Dreamland by David Dunwoody
Lost In the Poppy-Fields of Flesh by Konstantine Paradias
Five To One by Edward M. Erdelac
Keeping the Faith by Samantha Stone
Mud Men by Sean Hoade
Misconception by Jamie D. Jenkins
No Colors Anymore by Joe L. Murr
Shimmer and Sway by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
Short Wave by Stephen Mark Rainey
The Song that Crystal Sang by Tom Lynch
Through a Looking Glass Darkly by Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons
The Color from the Deep by William Meikle
The Long Fine Flash by Edward Morris
Just Another Afternoon in Arkham, Brought to You in Living Color by Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr.
Crystal Blue Persuasion by Jeffrey Thomas
Order the paperback from Amazon.com here.