Hardboiled Cthulhu!

[brotherAkkyshan]

Just picked up this little curiousity in my local Waterstones. It's edited by a James Ambuehl and contains twenty-one "Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror"! Yet to start reading it but I'm hoping it contains some 'gems' of inspiration. 

Anyone read it?

[richarDISNEY]

yea....  That's the Dimensions Books edition, right?
Real hit and miss for me (emphasis on the miss part).  Ok book at best.  I was hoping for...I dunno...something a little more polished, I guess.

[chicklewis]

Very unfortunately, I found most of those stories lame.  Couple of decent yarns in the lot.  Hope your enjoyment is superior to mine.

Chick

[supervike]

I'll check it out.  The only other 'non-Lovecraft' Cthulhu mythos stuff I read was Brian Lumley...and I didn't really care for that all that much.

Anyone got any other suggestions?

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

August Derleth did the a bunch of Cthulhu stuff, including a series set in the Dreamlands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Derleth

[Doc Twilight]

Again, I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend the -excellent- film "Cast a Deadly Spell" starring Fred War, by HBO productions. It's a hard boiled mystery set in a universe where magic is real, and has strong elements of Lovecraftian mythos...

The remake with Dennis Hopper... which was oddly timed since the Fred Ward film wasn't that old to begin with at the time... isn't so good.

-Doc