It had to be a game or a hoax. The website claimed to have spells to use with Cthulhu and the other old ones, but wasn’t that just stuff H. P. Lovecraft made up? In the short story, “The Web”, two boys find the website and think it sounds fun to try to call the old ones back, which is the perfect beginning to a collection of twelve short stories in Dark Wisdom: New Tales of the Old Ones by Gary Myers. No one is safe in these frightening tales where the horrifying world of Lovecraft is just a few steps away. In “Slugs,” a thief tries to hide from police in the sewer, and finds a small statue that he hopes to sell. Unfortunately for the thief, the statue is not a stroke of good luck, but the source of a new terror that won’t let him go. In another tale, “Omega”, Dr. Kessler was on an expedition looking for the fabled land, Hyperborea, when he makes a discovery that pushes beyond the bounds of reality. Creepy and disturbing, these stories are hard to forget.