Corporate Cthulhu: Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare

YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether youre a customer or co-worker bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information items and even people get lost in the system never gone but never found. No one seems to notice the insanity surrounding them... or if they do they keep it to themselves. After all those who notice and call attention to it tend to disappear leaving nothing behind but an empty desk and whispered rumors in the break room. If ever there was a place for a cosmic horror to hide grow and thrive its deep within the archives of a huge old bureaucracy.But of all bureaucracies corporations are the most powerful seeming to have a life and will of their own. Theyre privately held with a multi-national reach seemingly bottomless resources and armies of lawyers jealously guarding their trade secrets. Corporate culture fiercely resists any attempt to change or regulate it and anything and everything is justified by the bottom line. Who needs a Cthulhu Cult when youve got Cthulhu Inc.?Into this insidious world are thrust our heroes-the curious the puzzled and the frustrated. Defying authority seeking answers theyd be better off not knowing the secrets they discover threaten their sanity and their lives. Will they become the next whistleblower media hero? Or the next no-call / no-show their coworkers promptly forget? Just remember: its nothing personal-its just business.This book contains twenty-five tales of bureaucratic insanity including: DEATH PLEDGE by Jeff DeckWELCOME TO THE RLYEH CORPORATION by James PrattSHADOW CHARTS by Marcus JohnstonCASUAL FRIDAY by Todd H. C. FischerTHE GOD UNDER THE CHURCH by David TallermanREFUSAL by DJ TyrerDAGON-TEC by Adam MillardESOTERIC INSURANCE INC. by Evan Dicken & Adrian LudensCAREER ZOMBIE by John TaloniBOEDROMION NOUMENIA by Andrew ScottINCORPORATION by Max D. StantonTHE LOPONINE EXPLOITATION by John M. CampbellFESTIVAL PREPARATIONS by Justin BaileyMARYANNES EQUATIONS by Harry PauffWHOLESOME LABOR by Sam RentLIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR by Wile E. YoungTINDALOS INC. by Charlie AllisonCLEAN UP AISLE FOUR by Josh StoreyFORCED LABOR by Peter RawlikTHE SHADOWS LENGTHEN in the Close by Ethan GibneyIT CAME FROM I.T. by Gordon LinznerRETRACTION by Marie MichaelsFACILITIES MANAGEMENT AT DAGOCORP HQ by L ChanNO DOVES COME FROM RAVEN EGGS by Mark OxbrowAPOTHEOSIS by Darren Todd