Beyond The Black Stone: A Cthulhu Mythos Story

Beyond The Black Stone is a successful pastiche that mashes together Lovecraft's ‘The Mound' and Robert E Howard's ‘The Black Stone.'

It comes complete with the arrogant weirdo main character who delves too far into things he should not; in this case, the guy is a ‘dark tourist' who travels around to visit places where tragedy happens. It moves through the familiar story beats and manages to keep it just modern enough, so you're not bogged down in the archaic prose that didn't age well, making many of these stories tiresome. The tale is also the perfect length, and while it ends the silly way that many of these do, it was undoubtedly on brand and appropriate for it to do so.

I highly recommend this one.