{"id":377,"date":"2012-07-29T14:24:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2013-05-14T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:38:59","slug":"shotguns-v-cthulhu-welcome-to-cthulhuville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/shotguns-v-cthulhu-welcome-to-cthulhuville\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotguns v Cthulhu: Welcome to Cthulhuville"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Shotguns v Cthulhu\" src=\"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/files\/shotguns.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"303\" \/>Larry DiTillio\u2019s \u201cWelcome to Cthulhuville\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>With the <a title=\"Stone Skin Press Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1163391850\/stone-skin-press-anthologies-of-new-fiction\">Stone Skin Press Kickstarter<\/a> in its climactic days, we\u2019ll be highlighting the contributors and stories behind <em>Shotguns v. Cthulhu<\/em>, our anthology of action-packed Lovecraftiana.<\/p>\n<p>An idyllic beach scene turns to horror as faceless, winged creatures swoop down to take Santiago\u2019s wife and daughter. But it\u2019s only when he awakes that the real nightmare resumes. The stars have already aligned. Santiago has been left a desperate survivor of the mythos apocalypse.\u00a0 Existence on a blasted, rearranged earth has been reduced to violent struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Larry DiTillio lets out all the aesthetic stops in \u201cWelcome to Cthulhuville\u201d. It partakes of the unhinged wildness of a Robert E. Howard mythos tale, cranking it so far past eleven that it breaks through into a gobsmacking realm of surreal, tentacled experimentalism. Necronomiconomaniacs who have been waiting for Larry to return to the eldritch fields he sowed so memorably in his Call Of Cthulhu days will thrill to this new tale even as their SAN points dribble out their ear holes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry DiTillio <\/strong>has been a professional media writer since 1973. His script work has appeared on \u201cBabylon 5\u201d,\u201c Hypernauts\u201d, \u201cCaptain Power and the Soldiers of the Future\u201c\u201d \u201cThe Hitchhiker\u201d and \u201cMurder She Wrote.\u201d He also writes animation and has scripted over 130 teleplays in that genre including \u201cHe-Man\u201d,\u00a0 \u201cShe-Ra, Princess of Power\u201d \u201cConan the Adventurer\u201d and \u201cBeast Wars: Transformers\u201d. He&#8217;s also (gasp!) a gamer and wrote the classic <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> Scenario \u201cMasks of Nyarlathotep.\u201d Philosophy of Life &#8211; To Live is to undo your belt and look for trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry DiTillio\u2019s \u201cWelcome to Cthulhuville\u201d With the Stone Skin Press Kickstarter in its climactic days, we\u2019ll be highlighting the contributors and stories behind Shotguns v. Cthulhu, our anthology of action-packed Lovecraftiana. An idyllic beach scene turns to horror as faceless,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/shotguns-v-cthulhu-welcome-to-cthulhuville\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-shotguns-v-cthulhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}