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Books like Cthulhu Mythos: 9 series to read next

Cthulhu Mythos is science fiction and steampunk, set in our world and british isles, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Cthulhu Mythos is 453 books across 33 series, 1921–2025.

“Something vast and indifferent stirs beneath the floor of the world, and the only mercy is that most minds cannot add up what little they glimpse of it.”
from the catalogue description

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Penguin Classics Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus
Fungi from Yuggoth
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
Enoch Coffin
Unnerving (Jennifer DiMarco)
Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection
Southern Reach Trilogy

Penguin Classics LovecraftSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft3 books1999

Horror and cosmic horror, eerie and dark in tone, about madness, set in early 20th century and our world.

“The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' first omnibus edition of works by seminal 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft.”
from the catalogue description of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Start with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories →

H. P. Lovecraft OmnibusSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft2 books1985

Horror and cosmic horror, dark and eerie in tone, about madness, set in early 20th century and our world.

Start with The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales →

Fungi from YuggothSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft1 book1943

“Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Fungi from Yuggoth →

Richard Matheson: Collected StoriesSeries

seriesRichard Matheson4 books1989

Horror and science fiction, dark and eerie in tone, about madness, set in our world and mid 20th century.

Start with Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume One →

Enoch CoffinSeries

seriesJeffrey Thomas & W. H. Pugmire13 books2013

Horror and cosmic horror, dark and eerie in tone, about madness, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Beneath Arkham →

Unnerving (Jennifer DiMarco)Series

seriesJennifer Dimarco, uncredited & Brianne DiMarco7 books2019

Horror, dark and eerie in tone, about madness, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Monstrosity →

Annotated H. P. LovecraftSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft2 books1997

Horror and cosmic horror, dark and eerie in tone, about madness, set in early 20th century and our world.

“Now readers have an opportunity to scrutinize and further appreciate the greatness of Lovecraft's strange genius as Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi annotates, for the first time, some of Lovecraft's most famous tales.”
from the catalogue description of The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

Start with The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft →

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus CollectionSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft4 books2016

Horror and cosmic horror, eerie and dark in tone, about madness, set in early 20th century and our world.

Start with H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus, Volume I: 1917-1926 →

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer4 books2014

Science fiction and weird fiction, eerie in tone, about madness, set in contemporary and our world.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Annihilation →

Why these

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Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after Cthulhu Mythos?: Penguin Classics Lovecraft — the closest match to Cthulhu Mythos on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Cthulhu Mythos?: The Call of Cthulhu. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Cthulhu Mythos, which is a whole world rather than one run.
How big is Cthulhu Mythos?: Cthulhu Mythos is 453 books across 33 series, 1921–2025.

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