There are, quite literally, thousands of stories set in the “Cthulhu Mythos.” As in any genre, most of these stories are simply not worth reading – perhaps more so in this genre than others. There are, however, a scant few stories which stand out as being above the rest. An excellent (although increasingly out-of-date) list of “Cthulhu Mythos” fiction is Chris Jarocha-Ernst’s A Bibliography of the Cthulhu Mythos, which lists an amazing 951 stories.

• “The Barrens,” by F. Paul Wilson
• “Black Man with a Horn,” by T.E.D. Klein
• “Cold Print,” by Ramsey Campbell
• Dagon, by Fred Chappell
• “Dead Giveaway,” by J. Vernon Shea
• “The Deep Ones,” by James Wade
• “The Franklyn Paragraphs,” by Ramsey Campbell
• “Lord of the Land,” by Gene Wolfe
• “Meryphillia,” by Brian McNaughton
• The Mind Parasites, by Colin Wilson
• “Notebook Found in a Deserted House,” by Robert Bloch
• “The Return of the Lloigor,” Colin Wilson
• “The Shadow from the Steeple,” by Robert Bloch
• “Shaft No. 247,” by Basil Copper
• “Sticks,” by Karl Edward Wagner
• “The Terror from the Depths,” by Fritz Leiber
• “Those of the Air,” by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason van Hollander