an eldritch horror indeed...

When I first saw ye image of Gregory Nemic's cover art for Black Wings of Cthulhu 6 online, I thought someone was playing a joke. That ridiculous example of horror comic art, perhaps something from ye old Creepy magazine, could not POSSIBLY be ye intended art for a volume in S. T. Joshi's esteem'd BLACK WINGS series. But, bitches, IT IS. Ye rotting corpse is bad enough, but ye addition of bleedin' tentacles is just too much. One of ye "themes", if so I may name it, of S. T.'s Lovecraftian series is that he does NOT include traditional (i.e. typical) mythos stories fill'd with Lovecraftian genre stereotypes. Gawd!! Once we get past the wretched cover, things improve tremendously. 
Ye Contents are:
Introduction--S. T. Joshi
Pothunters--Ann K. Schwader
The Girl in the Attic--Darrell Schweitzer
The Once and Future Waite--Jonathan Thomas
Oude Goden--Lynne Jamneck
Carnivorous--William F. Temple
On a Dreamland's Moon (poem)--Ashley Dioses
Teshtigo Creek--Aaron Bittner
Ex Libris--Caitlin R. Kiernan
Your Shadows That in Darkness Dwell--Mark Howard Jones
The Ballad of Asenath Waite (poem)--Adam Bolivar
The Visitor--Nancy Kilpatrick
The Gaunt--Tom Lynch
Missing at the Morgue--Donald Tyson
The Shard--Don Webb
The Mystery of the Cursed Cottage--David Hambling
To Court the Night (poem)--K. A. Opperman
To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks--W. H. Pugmire
Mister Ainsley--Steve Rasnic Tem
Satiety--Jason V Brock
Provenance Unknown--Stephen Woodworth
The Well (poem)--D. L. Myers

One of ye outstanding features of the series is that it offers a fine sampling of modern weird poetry, showcasing ye talents of what seems to be a growing number of genre poets. I think this is from a special effort from ye editor to include more poetry, who writes in his Introduction: "This volume includes not one but four poems in the Lovecraftian idiom--a testament both to the renaissance of weird poetry in our time and to the felicitous adaptability of Lovecraftian motifs in the realm of verse." 

The Introduction ends with an extremely positive sentiment: "There is no reason to believe that Lovecraft's dominant role in the creation of contemporary weird fiction will end anytime soon, and the future should reveal still more innovative treatments of the themes and imagery he fashioned out of the crucible of his imagination." 

It is my eldritch prayer that such a future will haunt our imaginations!