Dark Gods is a collection by T. E. D. Klein published in 1985. Dark Gods is a collection of four longer stories, sometimes classed as novellas. The first three had been previously published, but the final story was published first in this collection. [1]
| Title | Plot Summary | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| "Children of the Kingdom" | Set in part during the New York City blackout of 1977 and deals with Hollow Earth lore and hostile creatures hiding in the shadows of New York. | The novella was first published in the anthology Dark Forces . It was described by critic Victor LaValle in the New York Times Book Review as "the greatest New York City horror story of all time." |
| "Petey" | The tale of a madman's monstrous "pet" which brings a well-to-do, middle-class housewarming to an unpleasant conclusion. | Originally published in Charles L. Grant's Shadows 2 anthology. |
| "Black Man with a Horn" | A tale in the vein of Lovecraft which treats of an elderly horror writer (modeled on Frank Belknap Long) and his discoveries about the dreaded Tcho-Tcho people. | First published in Ramsey Campbell's New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, the novella was revised in the 2014 anthology "A Mountain Walked", edited by S. T. Joshi. |
| "Nadelman's God" | A man finds that an overwrought poem he wrote as an adolescent has been used as an incantation to bring a monstrous deity to life. | First published in this collection. |
Dave Langford reviewed Dark Gods for White Dwarf #87, and stated that "the supernatural fear gets a leg-up from existing nervousness about (say) the parts of town where you wouldn't walk after dark. Low Pavement, for example, in terror-haunted Nottingham." [1]