What do flesh-eating cell phones, brain-enhancing tacos, and a real live dead foot have in common? They're all tools in the destruction of our world, and a weapons-grade team of heavily-armed Miskatonic University nerds may be humanity's last hope. Something is ripping holes in the Veil of energy that separates our world from that of the ancient evils writhing just beyond what we think is reality. Time is running out for Professors Derrick LeStrand, Howard Strauss and their team of researchers as they race to hunt down a mysterious Frenchman who wields Necromantic Death Magic unlike anything they've seen before. Tearing open psychological wounds from Derrick's past, the cabalistic sorcerer is gathering ancient icons of power to pierce the Veil and bring down the only thing shielding mankind from the relentless horrors beyond. If they fail, the only questions that will remain are who will live in servitude to the Great Old Ones and who will die...and who will supply Derrick with tacos? Set against the backdrop of a world where H.P. Lovecraft was not a fiction writer, but a Sweep, a special operative trained to protect the collective sanity of the human race with misinformative blends of fact and fiction ... where the Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual is little more than a slightly skewed Audubon Field Guide, and the monster movies you grew up with are more documentary than not. It's Lovecraftian Lethal Weapon cranked to eleven.

Have you ever walked over a grate in a sidewalk or passed by a manhole cover slightly ajar only to find the small hairs on your arm starting to rise, or terror washing over you at what may lurk unseen? The twelve tales in this anthology explore urban horrors waiting just below our feet... Whether it's the story of four boys who go searching for an urban legend only to come face to face with something far more sinister, or a man who watches those who dwell below under the cover of darkness while secretly coveting their subterranean existence, or tales of persons gone missing who disappear into the depths never to be seen again, there's something in this collection to keep even the most staunch explorer above ground for a long time. What Dwells Below will haunt your imagination with the unseen long after you have finished reading it!

Brian grew up in a shattered household with an abusive father who ruled with an merciless fist. When the court ruled his mother's suspicious death was by her own hand, he kept quiet even when he knew it was not a suicide. Years later, as Brian's adult world crumbles around him, he turns toward the only things he understands, but violence and hatred will teach him that retribution is a dish served cold...and wet... AND FULL OF RATS Dark Psychological Supernatural Horror

URBAN TEMPLES OF CTHULHU - MODERN MYTHOS ANTHOLOGY Published by the First United Church of Cthulhu In the dark recesses of the world's cities lie the hidden altars and secret cathedrals dedicated to the blasphemous beings from out of space and time. And they want in! Features the work of prominent horror authors, many already with published Cthulhu Mythos material. "Little Gods" by James Pratt "Sects and the Single Girl" by Steven A. Roman "The Kings in Rebel Yellow" by Khurt Khave "The Face of God Within" by Brian H. Seitzman "The Black Metal of Derek Zann" by Aaron Besson "Cosmic Cavity; or, the Mouth of Man" by Carl R. Jennings "Along the Shore of Old Ridge" by Stuart Conover "Sleep Talking" by Jeff C. Stevenson "Matriarch of Skid Row" by M. C. Bluhm "Uncle Lovecraft: The Complete Oral History" by David Acord "Strange Communion" by Allen Griffin "Death in the Sunset" by Guy Riessen "The Abomination of St. Jude" by David F. Gray "Flesh-Bound Shadow Sun" by M. S. Swift "Doorstepping" by Kelda Crich "Saturday Night at the Esoteric Order of Dagon" by Jill Hand "City of our Lady, Queen of the Angels, Virgin Mother of a Thousand Young" by Kevin Wetmore "Warm Red Sea" by Jaap Boekestein The First United Church of Cthulhu is the only real and legally recognized nonprofit religious organization whose faith is based on the Cthulhu Mythos and the visions of our mad prophet H. P. Lovecraft. Find the church at FUCC.IT