Necronomi-Romcom
Romance. Laughter. Tentacles...
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| What makes human hearts (and other parts) beat faster? For some, it's other humans. For others, it's tentacled creatures from beyond time and space. In this delightful LIGHT collection of Cthulhu- mythos-inspired rom-com, 64,000+ words, part of a duology, Cthulhu falls in love, his son dates a Mi-Go, several summonings go hilariously awry, lovers rob graves and build furniture, some keep Mythos creatures as pets, and others post priceless grimoires on social media. This LIGHT tome includes many beloved Mythos creatures and a host of new ones. | What makes human hearts (and other parts) beat faster? For some, it's other humans. For others, it's tentacled creatures from beyond time and space. In this frightful DARK collection of Cthulhu-mythos-inspired romcom, 64,000+ words, part of a duology, we meet Cthulhu’s wife and children, do some gardening with the wife at the end of the world, join a women’s cult, honor the beloved dead, steal cursed furniture, hook up with Nyarlathotep, and get chased by some Dark Young in pursuit of true love. This DARK tome includes many beloved Mythos creatures and a host of new ones. | |||
| Table of Contents/LIGHT | Table of Contents/DARK | |||
| “Lovecraft, Actually” | Jennifer Lee Rossman | “Cthulhu Family Dinner” | T.L. Guthrie | |
| “Tsunami Cyril” | Victoria Randall | “The Loveseat” | Robert Bose | |
| “The Sea-Folk in Kingsport” | Ariel Finkle | “Crustaceous Wishes and Dungeness Dreams” | John A. DeLaughter | |
| “Through Yonder Inter-dimensional Window” | Henry Herz | “Twerking for Jesus” | Bill McCormick | |
| "The Larvon Pit” | Mark DiStefano | “Gnarly Love” | Charles Montgomery | |
| "Deathless Bride of Crawling Chaos” | Mark McLaughlin | “Theophany at Wall and Broad” | J. L. Royce | |
| All Hallow’s Odd” | Russell Secord | “Full Moon Siren Song or The Harmonic Analysis of the Tides off an Unnamed Maine Coast” | Elizabeth Davis | |
| “Extreme Denial” | Nicholas Knight | “Vuil Huis” | Agrimmeer Demolay | |
| “Mistress of Venom” | Jessica Lucci | “My Marriage or a Cult Dedicated to a Perverse Fertility Goddess” | Joseph C. DiNallo | |
| “When The Stars Were Right” | Julie Shiel | “Cyloptorus” | David Kennedy | |
| “Nyarlaskank” | Margret A Treiber | “Brandy” | Alec Lownes | |
| “Rituals” | Ben Wolfson | “I Lost You to the Summer Wind” | John Opalenik | |
| “Lost in the Shape of You” | J.M. Cyrus | “Shub-Niggurath’s Shindig” | Nora B. Peevy | |
| “Deep Love” | Gary Battershell | “Emissary of Love” | Rob Smales | |
| “The Thing on the Driveway” | Margaret L Carter | “Mother’s Blessings” | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa | |
| “Cthulhu’s Girlfriend” | Sarine Dorie | “The Gift of the Calamari” | Robert Dawson | |
| “Teaching My Demon Lover to Cha-Cha” | Marcy Arlin | “The Birthday Party with a Thousand Young” | Andrew Leon Hudson | |
| “Finding Nympho” | Miguel Fliguer and Mike Slater | “Hearts Synchronize” | M. Stern | |
| “Shell Shock” | John Kiste | “You Can Still Have a Life” | D.A. Salvatore | |
| “James and the Dark Grimoire” | Kevin Lauderdale | |||
| “I Summoned an Eldritch Horror (Without Even Trying!)” | Derek Paterson | |||
| “The Phone Call of Cthulhu” | Steve Burford | |||
| “The Zsirkin-yvaratic” | Esther Wallace | |||
| “The End of the World, The Dark Young, and Jessica” | Camden Rose | |||
Editor: Gevera Bert Piedmont
Author of the Mickey Crow paranormal series and creator of the Quetzalcoatl Ascending world
Member HWA/HWA-CT, NEHW, CAPA
Publisher: Transformations by Obsidian Butterfly, LLC
Publication format: Paperback, Kindle, Hardcover
Publication target: Summer 2024
Email to request an advanced review copy. (transformations at obsidianbutterfly dot com)