Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird

I'm not sure when or how I ended up with a copy of this, but it's been sitting on my shelves for some time. An interesting theme for the collection: combining eldritch horror (aka the Cthulhu mythos) with space opera. The combination holds up! Out of twenty-nine stories, each by a different author, I'd say only a couple were stinkers, and there are several real gems (Lucy A. Snyder!). One or two could have used a bit more editorial attention, because a passage that is—or at least reads like—a mistake is an easy way to jolt the reader out of the fiction. Each story is accompanied by an illustration; these vary in technical skill, but many of them are quite evocative of their corresponding tales. All in all, well worth reading, show more although perhaps only once. show less