Byron Craft

The final act Cthulhu walks the land. It's killing everything on Earth; instant death for billions, trillions of life forms. An apocalyptic force of shoggoths is at the forefront of the Old One's advance. A ragtag group scrambles to fight back in a last-ditch effort to salvage the remnants of humanity. Read on, if you have the courage

Who creates and controls the SHOGGOTHS? For Professor Thomas Ironwood and his heavily armed team, the answer is crucial. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance. The solution? Return to the tunnels beneath the Mojave Desert, locate a gigantic subterranean vault and unlock the secrets it contains. Deadly primal secrets that lie in wait from a time before human life began Byron Craft once again takes us below the earth in this SHOGGOTH sequel enveloping us with tentacles, claws, and mucus glop. A talented fusion of Lovecraftian sci-fi, mystery, fantasy, and horror with a 21st-century twist.

"Some cities grew; Arkham just festered," so said the hard-boiled police detective that oversees the Mythos Division, a department that is mandated, by his superiors, to investigate things that go bump in the night . . . Lovecraftian things The Arkham Detective hunts down oddities that are misshapen, vague or unseen, and at other times, material horrors, all of which usually leave bloody trails wherever they go. Byron Craft has mastered Cthulhu Mythos pulp stories set during the era of the Great Depression. His nameless plainclothes officer pursues ungodly terrors in four riveting stories that propel the reader through Arkham, Innsmouth, Dunwich and, of course, Miskatonic University. Lovecraft and detective fans alike will enjoy this collection.

Cthulhu's Minions, in this story, are Pilot Demons. They originally came into being in my novel "The Alchemist's Notebook" based on my screenplay for "The Cry of Cthulhu." They are creepy little things that became such great supporting characters (in a terrible sort of way) that I thought that they deserved their own separate story." Cthulhu's Minions" takes place in an alternate universe somewhat like the 1930's when H. P. Lovecraft was writing his Cthulhu Mythos and writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler were creating the hardboiled mystery drama. Indeed, it is as if we are being treated to a Dashiell Hammett meets H. P. Lovecraft collaboration. The protagonist of the tale is the Detective with No Name. He is a case-hardened police officer that does not believe in things that go bump in the night, until...

An accepted theory exists that millions of years ago a celestial catastrophic occurrence wiped out every living thing on the planet. This theory may be flawed. Fast-forward to the 21st century. A handful of scientists, allied with the military, discover a massive network of tunnels beneath the Mojave Desert. Below, lies an ancient survivor, waiting...and it's hungry Once again Byron Craft drags us by his tentacles into a masterful mix of Lovecraftian science fiction, mystery, fantasy and horror.

A novelization of The Cry of Cthulhu film project is about a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, and his wife. They inherit an old country estate in Germany around the time his company transfers him to the same area. The two soon discover that the coincidence is really too good to be true. Their home rests near a timeworn door into the earth that is poised to open, exposing all to a horde of four-dimensional beings. Soon the line between our reality and that other space-time will be blurred forever, leaving mankind to be consumed by shrill, shrieking terror. Only one man has the slimmest chance to save our planet and, even though he has no place to hide, he prefers to run. In the style of H. P. Lovecraft, Byron Craft brings the Cthulhu mythos and the Necronomicon back to life with THE CRY OF CTHULHU leading the reader through a terrifying Lovecraftian web of mystery, horror and apocalyptic doom. Originally published as The Alchemist's Notebook.

Still Thinking in 3 Dimensions? There are no hiding places..... Faren, a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, and his wife, Janet, inherit an old country estate in Germany around the time that Faren's company transfers him to the same area. The two soon discover that the coincidence is really too good to be true. Their home rests near a timeworn door into the earth that is poised to open, exposing all to a horde of four-dimensional beings. Soon the line between our reality and that other space-time will be blurred forever, leaving mankind to be consumed by shrill, shrieking terror. Only one man has the slimmest chance to save our planet and, even though he has no place to hide, he prefers to run. In the style of H. P. Lovecraft, Byron Craft brings the Cthulhu mythos and the Necronomicon back to life with "The Alchemist's Notebook" leading the reader through a terrifying Lovecraftian web of mystery, horror and apocalyptic doom.