Ben Unsworth reviews Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country, the Welsh Lovecraftian anthology edited by Mark Howard Jones for Macabre Ink. Its seven long stories trade tentacles for mood, with Arthur Machen’s land as the backdrop for some fine Lovecraftian fiction. John Llewellyn Probert and George supply the two tales he expects to see in his year’s best.
After years away, Laura Mauro returns with Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers, a short story and a novella steeped in Japanese folklore. Shadowsick sends a decapitated head into spectral flight, while Lovesongs of the Nonmigratory Birds pulls the Yuki-Onna into a bleak, heartfelt tale of two people coming apart. A comeback well worth the wait.
Mia Dalia’s Lullabies for the Lost brings musical horror to the Black Shuck Shadows list, with four short bursts leading into the novella Discordant. The shorts remix familiar devil child and cosmic horror ideas, while the novella channels Don DeLillo by way of Faust. A fun horror short story collection, though the novella is already sold on its own.
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