Today marks the official release day of Into the Cthulhu-Universe, an IFWG anthology that transplants Lovecraft’s mythos into other literary realms.

My short story, ‘Sweet Music’, came out of the blue, or more likely the black: a casual conversation with co-editor Steven Paulsen in which it was mentioned there was a hole in the anthology.

‘Anyone done Dracula?’ I asked.

‘No.’ Eyebrow raised.

‘Give me a week, see if anything emerges…’

And here it is, a little different to the original concept that first dug its way out of the back brain.

You’ll notice some of the hard-copy research material pictured, the exquisite coincidence of a certain Cthulhu castle in Transylvania, the challenge of layering Tepes over Stoker over Lovecraft et al.

I’ve written only two other Cthulhu-esque stories — ‘An Incident at Portsea, 1967’ and ‘Slither’. Nice when things come in threes, even if years apart!

Into the Cthulhu-Universe is now available from the usual online retailers. Find out more at IFWG.