“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”So said H.P. Lovecraft in the first chapter of his most famous story, The Call of Cthulhu (1926). This is also the perfect start for an introduction to Steampunk Cthulhu, for within the stories in this collection mankind has indeed voyaged too far, and the scientific innovations undreamt of but for the fantastic fiction of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and others, have opened terrifying vistas of reality with insanity and worse as the only reward.The Steampunk genre has always incorporated elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and alternative history, and certainly the Cthulhu Mythos has not been a stranger to Steampunk...Those Above by Jeffrey ThomasThe Blackwold Horror by Adam BolivarNo Hand to Turn the Key by Carrie CuinnThe Reverend Mr. Goodworks & the Yeggs of Yig by Edward M. ErdelacCarnacki – The Island of Doctor Munroe by William MeiklePain Wears No Mask by John GoodrichBefore the Least of These Stars by Lee Clark ZumpeThe Promised Messiah by D.J. TyrerUnfathomable by Christine MorganThe Flower by Christopher M. GeesonTentacular Spectacular by Thana NiveauFall of an Empire by Glynn Owen Barrass & Brian M. SammonsThe Baying of the Hounds by Leigh KimmelMr Brass & the City of Devils by Josh ReynoldsThe Source by D.L. SnellHappy Birthday, Dear Cthulhu by Robert NeilsonThe Strange Company by Pete Rawlik