This massive collection of original stories and articles inspired by the 'Cthulhu Mythos' created by H.P. Lovecraft was published in Japan in 2002 as a two-volume set under the name Hishinkai. The list of contributing authors is a who's-who of Japanese horror fiction, featuring some of the finest writers in Japan today.

This volume, the second of the 4-volume English translation, features the following stories and articles (alphabetical order):

ASAMATSU Ken

Foreword: "Life with Gills"

ASHIBE Taku

"The Horror in the Kabuki Theatre" translated by Sheryl HOGG

HIRAYAMA Yumeaki

"Summoned by the Shadows" translated by Sheryl HOGG

KONAKA Chiaki

"Terror Rate" translated by Kathleen TAJI

MATSUDONO Rio

"Taste of the Snake's Honey" translated by Erin S. BRODHEAD

MATSUO Mirai

"Inverted Kingdom" translated by Usha JAYARAMAN

NANJO Takenori

"A Night at Yuan-Su" translated by Usha JAYARAMAN

TANAKA Fumio

"Secrets of the Abyss" translated by Bruce RUTLEDGE and ENOMOTO Yuko

YASUDA Hitoshi

"The Cthulhu Mythos in Gaming" translated by Edward LIPSETT

• v, 357 pages
• Trade paperback 5" x 8" (127mm x 203mm)
• ISBN 4-902075-12-1
• Kurodahan Press Book No. FG-J0011-L7
• List Price: US$20.00
• Cover: Yamada Akihiro

• Hidden Gods Volume 1: Night Voices, Night Journeys
• Hidden Gods Volume 3: Straight to Darkness

Other books of interest:

• Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft
• Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H. P. Lovecraft
• Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror by Daniel Harms
• The Book of Eibon (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) edited by Robert M. Price
• Nameless Cults: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales Of Robert E. Howard
• The Disciples of Cthulhu II: Blasphemous Tales of the Followers edited by Edward P. Berglund
• Cthulhu 2000 by edited Jim Turner
• The Children of Cthulhu edited by John Pelan
• Denied to the Enemy: The Cthulhu Mythos During the Second World War (Delta Green)by Dennis Detwiller