Swords v. Cthulhu

Recommended Reading List

The following is by no means an exhaustive survey of the field, but simply represents some favorites of both the editors and contributors. The cosmic horror elements range from the fleetingly light to the overt and overwhelming, with the one common element being they are all worth checking out.

Berserk

Claymore

Conan

Heavy Metal

Oglaf

Orion

Rat Queens

Red Sonja

“Sword of the Reanimator” by Junji Ito

Far Away & Never by Ramsey Campbell

The Necromancer Chronicles series by Amanda Downum

Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology edited by Milton J. Davis and Charles R. Saunders

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgeson

Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction by Robert E. Howard, as well as plenty of individual stories, such as “The Slithering Shadow” and “The People of the Black Coast”

The Heretic Land by Tim Lebbon

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber

“Masquerade of a Dead Sword” by Thomas Ligotti

The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft

The House of Cthulhu by Brian Lumley

The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton

The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock

Jirel of Joiry by C. L. Moore

Sword and Mythos edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula Stiles

A Land Fit for Heroes series by Richard K. Morgan

Imaro by Charles R. Saunders

In Yana, The Touch of Undying, and the Nift the Lean books by Michael Shea

The Collected Fantasies 1-5 by Clark Ashton Smith

Darkness Weaves, Bloodstone, and Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner

Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Innsmouth Free Press

Strange Aeons

Carrion Hill (Pathfinder Module)

Cave Evil

Chaos in the Old World

Cthulhu Invictus (Call of Cthulhu supplement)

The Complete Dreamlands (Call of Cthulhu supplement)

The Dying Earth

Swords Against the Outer Dark

Black Knight Sword

Bloodborne

Crawl

Darkest Dungeon

Demon’s Souls/Dark Souls series

Diablo series

Dragon Age series

Eldritch

Heretic/Hexen series

Inquisitor

Lords of the Fallen

Planescape: Torment

Shadow of the Colossus