The Cry of Cthulhu - Paperback

by Byron Craft (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Byron Craft's novel "THE CRY OF CTHLULHU" was originally a movie that was in preproduction several years ago. Unfortunately the project, like many good intentions, never came to fruition. Byron Craft's concept was an all new Cthulhu Mythos story to be put on film that would have done H.P. Lovecraft proud. At the time, there had been several poor attempts to place Lovecraft and his dreaded Necronomicon on the big screen. Mr. Craft had a notion to make an exciting, plus mind-boggling, Cthulhu movie that had the look and feel as if Lovecraft had stood behind the camera. "THE CRY OF CTHULHU" embodies the same vision in a literary format. He endeavored to pen this Cthulhu Mythos novel as it may have been done if H.P. Lovecraft was alive in the 21st century. Nevertheless, "THE CRY OF CTHLULHU" consists of three separate narratives that link together a single story, where when one account leaves off, the other continues leading you, the reader, through a terrifying Lovecraftian web of mystery, horror and apocalyptic doom. Byron Craft has been known to refer to this work as "THE CRY OF CTHLULHU PROJECT," because it is the first in a four novel mythos series dealing with mankind's internal, as well as, outward struggle to control his own destiny while encountering malicious beings from another time and space.