Cthulhu Tales Vol 4: Darkness Beyond [Paperback]

William A Messner-loebs (Author), Roger Langridge (Author), Michael Nelson (Author), Mark Waid (Editor), Various (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 23, 2010 | Series: Cthulhu Tales (Book 4)

A fun, wild, inventive, and often-scary anthology horror series, CTHULHU TALES takes the familiar tradition of the Lovecraft-influenced short story and introduces it to the comic format.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 9 Up Created by H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, the creature Cthulhu is the focus for most of the stories in this anthology. Each selection is by a different writer and artist, so styles vary. Most are illustrated in muddy, muted, or sepia tones as befits the darkness of the tales, with only one being brightly colored in classic comic-book style, which complements the daylight-above-ground setting of the story. Several of the selections have a classic Twilight Zone feel to them, and a couple are quite humorous a Law & Order parody, Arkham SVU (Spectral Victims' Unit) and a spread entitled Selections from Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a...Chocolate Sampler Copywriter, which has some of the author's most wicked prose-style humor in the volume. Older teens and Lovecraft fans will enjoy this collection. Suanne Roush, Osceola High School, Seminole, FL
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: BOOM! Studios; 1 edition (March 23, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934506761
• ISBN-13: 978-1934506769
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #465,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Alan Nelson was born in Portage, Indiana and grew up in a small farming community before moving to Los Angeles in 2002. He is the winner of the 2004 New Times 55 Fiction contest for his short-short "The Conspirators" and was awarded the 2011 Glyph Comics Award for Best Female Character for the character Selena from his series "28 Days Later." Michael is the author of the critically acclaimed comic series "Hexed," "Dingo," and "Fall of Cthulhu." He lives in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as previous volumes, April 16, 2010

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Derrick O'Rourke "Prof. G. Tripp" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cthulhu Tales Vol 4: Darkness Beyond (Paperback)

This book is decent enough but it's not the best of the Cthulhu Tales series. We do find out what happened to Connor from the Fall of Cthulhu series and I would recommend that you read this after volume 5 of that series. There are some stories in this that are just plain odd and don't really work but in general it's a decent read.