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The description is from Amazon. Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn! First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu mythos encompass a pantheon of truly existential cosmic horror: Eldritch, uncaring, alien god-things, beyond mankind's deepest imaginings, drawing ever nearer, insatiably hungry, until one day, when the stars are right.... As that dread day, hinted at within the moldering pages of the fabled Necronomicon, draws nigh, tales of the Great Old Ones: Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Hastur, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, and the weird cults that worship them have cross-pollinated, drawing authors and other dreamers to imagine the strange dark aeons ahead, when the dead-but-dreaming gods return. Now, intrepid anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has delved deep into the Cthulhu canon, selecting from myriad mind-wracking tomes the best sanity-shattering stories of cosmic terror. Featuring fiction by many of today's masters of the menacing, macabre, and monstrous, monstrous, including Laird Barron, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Thomas Ligotti, The Book of Cthulhu goes where no collection of Cthulhu mythos tales has before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond! Do you dare open The Book of Cthulhu? Do you dare heed the call?

Cherie Priest--the acclaimed author of Boneshaker, the hottest steampunk novel of 2009--now returns with the second novel in her hip urban fantasy series, following February's Bloodshot. With the government now off her tail, vampire and superthief Raylene Pendle is up to her old tricks, hired to retrieve a valuable magical artifact. But this time, a powerful witch also wants the artifact--which she plans to use to unmake the world as we know it. And to make matters worse, someone wants to kill the only friend Raylene has made in years. So now, Raylene must cross the country in company with ex-Navy SEAL and fabulous drag queen Adrian, trying to juggle two incredibly tricky assignments at the same time without losing control of either.

Bloodshot, the first book in a new series by Cherie Priest--the acclaimed author of the Nebula Award-nominated Boneshaker--combines the appeal of Lara Adrian's bestselling vampire series with the thrills of TV's Leverage. When you're one of the best thieves in the world, nobody is going to bat an eye if you introduce yourself as a "specialist in antiquities acquisition." Raylene Pendle fits that description to a T. The fact that she's also a vampire pretty much ensures that anyone with a problem is going to keep it to themselves. As thrilling as her life has been, though, Raylene--known in the thieving community as Cheshire Red--is still intrigued when she is offered her latest job. A man named Ian Stott is interested in finding secret government documents about the research that has left him virtually sightless. If she wasn't caught up in the fact that Ian is incredibly charming, the fact that he too is a vampire--and the first one to ask her to do a job for him--has her interest piqued. But where the case will take her--the frozen outskirts of Minneapolis and the mean streets of Atlanta, running from a psychotic government scientist while trying to protect, of all things, a drag queen--may be more than even she can handle. It's gonna be one hell of a ride, though.