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A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Donald Tyson, Michael Shea, T.E.D. Klein, Jason V. Brock, James Wade, Rhys Hughes, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., S.T. Joshi, Stanley C. Sargent, Robert Barbour Johnson, Mearle Prout, Gemma Files, Lois H. Gresh, Walter C. DeBill Jr., Ramsey Campbell, David Ho, W.H. Pugmire, Thomas Ligotti, Cody Goodfellow, Caitlín R. Kiernan, C. Hall Thompson, Neil Gaiman, Mark Samuels, Patrick McGrath, Jonathan Thomas

4.0

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Excellent anthology. Buy it for Stanley C. Sargent's "The Black Brat of Dunwich" alone. I know people like scary monsters but "The Dunwich Horror" was just begging for a deconstruction or perspective flip. Is Wilbur Whateley really an irredeemable abomination or just the product of being born into a household of poverty, squalor, dysfunction, untreated mental illness, and social isolation and having to deal with what are basically severe congenital deformities on top of that? A Mountain Walked also features works by modern masters Neil Gaiman, W.H. Pugmire, Caitlin Kiernan, and Thomas Ligotti. Yeah, there are quite a few stories that have already been published elsewhere but they're worth rereading.