A Cthulhu Mythos anthology is a type of short story collection that contains stories written in or related to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction launched by H. P. Lovecraft. Such anthologies have helped to define and popularize the genre. This article is in need of attention. ... Cthulhu Mythos is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and associated writers. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ...

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by August Derleth and published by Arkham House in 1969, is considered the first Cthulhu Mythos anthology. It contained two stories by Lovecraft, a number of reprints of pieces written by members of Lovecraft's circle of correspondents, and several new tales written for the collection by a new generation of Cthulhu Mythos writers. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Arkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. ... See also: 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

Derleth prefaced the collection with "The Cthulhu Mythos", an outline of his (sometimes controversial) views on the development and content of the Mythos. In this introduction, Derleth prematurely declared the genre to be dead--"for certainly the Mythos as an inspiration for new fiction is hardly likely to afford readers with enough that is new and sufficiently different in execution to create a continuing and growing demand".^[1]

Lin Carter later wrote that Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos "marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the Mythos for many reasons, and one of the most important was that it introduced a number of new writers in the Mythos."^[2] Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. ...

The stories in the original edition included:

• "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft
• "The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith
• "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith
• "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard
• "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long
• "The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long
• "The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth
• "Beyond the Threshold" by August Derleth
• "The Salem Horror" by Henry Kuttner
• "The Haunter of the Graveyard" by J. Vernon Shea*
• "The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch
• "The Haunter of the Dark" by H. P. Lovecraft
• "The Shadow from the Steeple" by Robert Bloch
• "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" by Robert Bloch
• "Cold Print" by J. Ramsey Campbell*
• "The Sister City" by Brian Lumley*
• "Cement Surroundings" by Brian Lumley*
• "The Deep Ones" by James Wade*
• "The Return of the Lloigor" by Colin Wilson*

• First appeared in the collection

Cover for a reprint of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... The Hounds of Tindalos are a part of H.P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu Mythos. ... Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 - February 4, 1958) was a science fiction author born in Los Angeles, California. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917, Chicago, Illinois-September 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. ... The Haunter of the Dark is a horror story by H.P. Lovecraft. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer considered by many critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. ... Brian Lumley (born December 12, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. ... James Wade (born 6 April 1983 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation. ... Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931) is a prolific British writer. ...

The Disciples of Cthulhu

The Disciples of Cthulhu was edited by Edward P. Berglund and published by DAW Books in 1976. Berglund later described it as "the first professional, all-original, Cthulhu Mythos anthology".^[3] Categories: Stub ... See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

Perhaps responding to the introduction to Derleth's collection, Berglund wrote in his preface: "Whether or not there is a market for the Cthulhu Mythos stories, established and amateur writers will continue to write them for their own and their friends' amusement and enjoyment. It is inevitable that one or more readers of this volume will be influenced into trying his hand at writing within the Cthulhu Mythos genre."

• "The Fairground Horror" by Brian Lumley
• "The Silence of Erika Zann" by James Wade
• "All-Eye" by Bob Van Laerhoven
• "The Tugging" by Ramsey Campbell
• "Where Yidhra Walks" by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
• "The Feaster from Afar" by Joseph Payne Brennan
• "Zoth-Ommog" by Lin Carter
• "Darkness, My Name Is" by Eddy C. Bertin
• "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber

When the collection was reprinted by Chaosium in 1996, the Carter and Brennan stories were replaced by "Dope War of the Black Tong", a new Robert M. Price pastiche of Carter and Robert E. Howard, and "Glimpses" by A. A. Attanasio, which was supposed to be published in the original Disciples but ended up in the Arkham House anthology Nameless Places instead. Brian Lumley (born December 12, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Joseph Payne Brennan (1918 – 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. ... The Xothic legend cycle is a series of short stories by Lin Carter that are based on the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. ... Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role_playing games still in existence. ... See also: 1995 in literature, other events of 1996, 1997 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Robert McNair Price was born July 7, 1954 in Mississippi and is a Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... A. A. Attanasio, born in 1951, is an author of fantasy and science fiction. ...

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos was edited by Ramsey Campbell and published by Arkham House in 1980. In his introduction, Campbell noted that "[i]n recent years the Mythos at times has seemed in danger of becoming conventionalized," despite the fact that "Lovecraft's intention and achievement was precisely to avoid the predictability and resultant lack of terror which beset the conventional macabre fiction of his day." Therefore, Campbell wrote, "in this anthology I have tended to favor less familiar treatments or uses of the Mythos.... They contain few erudite occultists, decaying towns, or stylistic pastiches.... Indeed, one of our tales hints at the ultimate event of the Mythos without ever referring to the traditional names."^[4] John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Arkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. ... See also: 1979 in literature, other events of 1980, 1981 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

One story in the book is an expansion, by Martin S. Warnes, of Lovecraft's fragment "The Book".

• "Crouch End" by Stephen King
• "The Star Pools" by A. A. Attanasio
• "The Second Wish" by Brian Lumley
• "Dark Awakening" by Frank Belknap Long
• "Shaft Number 247" by Basil Copper
• "Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein
• "The Black Tome of Alsophocus" by H. P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes
• "Than Curse the Darkness" by David Drake
• "The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell

Crouch End is a horror story by Stephen King, originally published in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980), and republished in a slightly different version in Kings Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection (1993). ... For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... A. A. Attanasio, born in 1951, is an author of fantasy and science fiction. ... Brian Lumley (born December 12, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. ... Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. ... T. E. D. Klein (born 1947) is an American horror writer and editor. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ...

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology

Arkham House released a new edition of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in 1990, edited by James Turner with a substantially different selection of stories, reflecting the editor's disdain for "Mythos pastiches in which eccentric New England recluses utter the right incantations in the wrong books and are promptly eaten by a giant frog named Cthulhu." Arkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. ... See also: 1989 in literature, other events of 1990, 1991 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Cthulhu and Rlyeh Cthulhu (other spellings: Kutulu, Cthulu, Kthulhut, Thu Thu, Tulu[1], and many others) is a fictional entity created by horror author H.P. Lovecraft. ...

Turner eliminates some authors from the earlier edition and uses different contributions from others--while still suggesting that "a few of the earliest pieces in this volume...now seem like pop-cultural kitsch." The stories added, he writes, are from "the relative handful of successful works that have been influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos...exemplifying the darkly enduring power of H. P. Lovecraft over a disparate group of writers who have made their own inimitable contributions to the Mythos."^[5] Kitsch is a German term that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ...

• "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft
• "The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith
• "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith
• "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard
• "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long
• "The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long
• "The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth
• "Beyond the Threshold" by August Derleth
• "The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch
• "The Haunter of the Dark" by H.P. Lovecraft
• "The Shadow from the Steeple" by Robert Bloch
• "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" by Robert Bloch
• "The Salem Horror" by Henry Kuttner
• "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber
• "Rising with Surtsey" by Brian Lumley
• "Cold Print" by Ramsey Campbell
• "The Return of the Lloigor" by Colin Wilson
• "My Boat" by Joanna Russ
• "Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner
• "The Freshman" by Philip Jose Farmer
• "Jerusalem's Lot" by Stephen King
• "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone" by Richard A. Lupoff

Cover for a reprint of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917, Chicago, Illinois-September 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. ... The Haunter of the Dark is a horror story by H.P. Lovecraft. ... Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 - February 4, 1958) was a science fiction author born in Los Angeles, California. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Brian Lumley (born December 12, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931) is a prolific British writer. ... Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937), American writer and feminist, is the author of a number of works of Science Fiction (among other types of writing), including The Female Man, an aclaimed SF novel and pioneering meditation on how differing societies might produce very different versions of the same person... Karl Edward Wagner (4 December 1945 – 13 October 1994) was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. ... Philip José Farmer (born January 26, 1918) is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. ... Salems Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King, written in 1975. ... For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... Richard Allen Lupoff was born on February 21, 1935. ...

Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos

Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos was edited by Robert M. Price and published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1992. In an introduction, Price provides a "sketch of the Lovecraft Mythos and its evolution into the Cthulhu Mythos"--raising a defense of August Derleth's interpretation of the Mythos along the way. Price writes that his in choosing selections was to assemble "an alternate version" of Derleth's Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, though limited in scope to the writers of the pulp era. He included several pieces long out of print or reprinted only in obscure fanzines, and tried to focus on "stories in which certain important Mythos names or items are either first mentioned or most fully explained by the author who created them".^[6] Robert McNair Price was born July 7, 1954 in Mississippi and is a Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies. ... See also: 1991 in literature, other events of 1992, 1993 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Lovecraft Mythos is the term coined by the scholar S. T. Joshi[1] to describe the pseudomythological backdrop, settings, and themes employed by the American weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Flynns Detective Fiction from 1941. ...

• "The Thing on the Roof" by Robert E. Howard
• "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" by Robert E. Howard
• "The Seven Geases" by Clark Ashton Smith
• "Fane of the Black Pharaoh" by Robert Bloch
• "The Invaders" by Henry Kuttner
• "Bells of Horror" by Henry Kuttner
• "The Thing That Walked on the Wind" by August Derleth
• "Ithaqua" by August Derleth
• "The Lair of the Star-Spawn" by August Derleth & Mark Shorer
• "The Lord of Illusion" by E. Hoffmann Price
• "The Warder of Knowledge" by Richard F. Searight
• "The Scourge of B'Moth" by Bertram Russell
• "The House of the Worm" by Mearle Prout
• "Spawn of the Green Abyss" by C. Hall Thompson
• "The Guardian of the Book" by Henry Hasse
• "The Abyss" by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• "Music of the Stars" by Duane W. Rimel
• "The Aquarium" by Carl Jacobi
• "The Horror Out of Lovecraft" by Donald A. Wolheim
• "To Arkham and the Stars" by Fritz Leiber

Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917, Chicago, Illinois-September 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. ... Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 - February 4, 1958) was a science fiction author born in Los Angeles, California. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ithaqua (the Wind-Walker or the Wendigo) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. ... Henry (Louis) Hasse (b. ... Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi for the mathematician (1804-1851). ... Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1, 1914 - November 2, 1990) was a science fiction writer, editor, and publisher. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Cthulhu's Heirs

Cthulhu's Heir's was edited by Thomas M. K. Stratman and published by Chaosium in 1994. With the exception of contributions by Ramsey Campbell and Hugh B. Cave, the stories included are original to the collection. Stratman describes the tales as "more than 20 writers' visions into the landscape of Lovecraft Country."^[7] Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role_playing games still in existence. ... See also: 1993 in literature, other events of 1994, 1995 in literature, list of years in literature. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Hugh Barnett Cave (July 11, 1910–June 27, 2004) was a writer of pulp fiction, contributing to Black Mask, Weird Tales, and similar publications. ... Lovecraft Country is the New England setting, combining real and fictitious locations, used by H.P. Lovecraft in many of his weird fiction stories, and later elaborated by other writers working in the Cthulhu mythos genre. ...

• "Watch the Whiskers Sprout" by D. F. Lewis
• "The Death Watch" by Hugh B. Cave
• "The Return of the White Ship: The Quest for Cathuria" by Arthur William & Lloyd Breach
• "Kadath/the Vision and the Journey" by t. Winter-Damon
• "The Franklyn Paragraphs" by Ramsey Campbell
• "Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock" by Robert M. Price
• "1968 RPI" by Joe Murphy
• "Those of the Air" by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason van Hollander
• "Mr. Skin" by Victor Milán
• "Just Say No" by Gregory Nicoll
• "The Scourge" by Charles M. Saplak
• "Pickman's Legacy" by Gordon Linzner
• "Of Dark Things & Midnight Places" by David Niall Wilson
• "The Likeness" by Dan Perez
• "An Early Frost" by Scott David Aniolowski
• "Scene: A Room" by Craig Anthony
• "The Seven Cities of Gold" by Crispin Burnham
• "Shadows of Her Dreams" by Cary G. Osborne
• "The Herald" by Daniel M. Burrello
• "Typo" by Michael D. Winkle
• "Star Bright, Star Byte" by Marella Sands

D.F. Lewis (born January 18, 1948) is a British author who has had approximately one thousand five hundred short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some in hard-to-find outlets plus others in literary journals (eg: Stand, Iron, Orbis, Panurge, London Magazine, etc. ... Hugh Barnett Cave (July 11, 1910–June 27, 2004) was a writer of pulp fiction, contributing to Black Mask, Weird Tales, and similar publications. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Robert McNair Price was born July 7, 1954 in Mississippi and is a Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies. ...

The Starry Wisdom

The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft was edited by D. M. Mitchell and published by Creation Books in 1994. Declaring that "Lovecraft has suffered much at the hands of unmindful critics and even more from uninspired and talentless imitators," Mitchell declares that the collection's goal is "to dig deeper, to bypass the superficial and access the subterranean channels of archetype and inspiration with which Lovecraft was connected.... [Lovecraft] crafted morbid and disturbing allegories of social and biological upheaval--cryptically prophetic and spiritually exploratory--this latent content of his work now needs excavating."^[8] Creation Books is a British publishing house. ... See also: 1993 in literature, other events of 1994, 1995 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

Some of the stories in the collection--notably those by Burroughs and Ballard--were not inspired by Lovecraft, but were seen as sharing his "visions of cosmic alienation". In those stories that make direct direct references to the Cthulhu Mythos, they are "used only in passing--in the same informal way in which Lovecraft himself intended."^[9]

• "Lovecraft in Heaven" by Grant Morrison
• "Third Eye Butterfly" by James Havoc and Mike Philbin
• "A Thousand Young" by Robert M. Price
• "The Night Sea-Maid Went Down" by Brian Lumley
• "From this Swamp" by Henry Wessels
• "Prisoner of the Coral Deep" by J. G. Ballard
• "Black Static" by David Conway
• "Red Mass" by Dan Kellett
• "Wind Die. You Die. We Die" by William S. Burroughs
• "The Call of Cthulhu" by John Coulthart & H. P. Lovecraft
• "Potential" by Ramsey Campbell
• "Walpurgisnachtmusik" by Simon Whitechapel
• "Meltdown" by D. F. Lewis
• "Beyond Reflection" by John Beal
• "This Exquisite Corpse" by C. G. Brandrick & D. M. Mitchell
• "Extracted from the Mouth of the Consumer, Rotting Pig" by Michael Gira
• "Hypothetical Materfamilias" by Adele O. Gladwell
• "The Sound of a Door Opening" by Don Webb
• "The Courtyard" by Alan Moore
• "The Dreamers in Darkness" by Peter Smith
• "Pills for Miss Betsy" by Rick Grimes
• "23 Nails" by Stephen Sennitt
• "Ward 23" by D. M. Mitchell

Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960, Glasgow) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. ... Robert McNair Price was born July 7, 1954 in Mississippi and is a Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies. ... Brian Lumley (born December 12, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. ... J.G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. ... My Bloody Valentine were an Irish-British rock band known for their creative use of guitar distortion and vibrato. ... William Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... John Coulthart is a graphic artist and designer who has produced book covers and illustrations, CD covers and posters for various people such as the heavy metal group Cradle of Filth, Hawkwind, Steven Severin, Colin Wilson and Alan Moore as well as Arthur Magazine. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... D.F. Lewis (born January 18, 1948) is a British author who has had approximately one thousand five hundred short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some in hard-to-find outlets plus others in literary journals (eg: Stand, Iron, Orbis, Panurge, London Magazine, etc. ... Michael Gira in Moscow, Russia. ... Austin science fiction and mystery writer, and former high priest of the Temple of Set. ... Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels, Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. ...

Cthulhu 2000

Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology was edited by Jim Turner and published by Arkham House in 1995. As in his earlier collection, Turner criticizes the "latter-day Mythos pastiche" as simply "a banal modern horror story, preceded by the inevitable Necronomicon epigraph and indiscriminately interspersed with sesquipedalian deities, ichor-oozing tentacles, sundry eldritch abominations, and then the whole sorry mess rounded off with a cachinnating chorus of "Iä! Iä!"-chanting frogs." He declares that "the works collected in the present volume are not great Lovecraft stories; they rather are great stories in some way inspired by Lovecraft."^[10] See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Necronomicon is the title of a fictional text in the works of American fantasy/horror author H.P. Lovecraft and other writers in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction. ... Lovecraftian horror is a sub-genre of horror which emphasizes the psychological horror of the unknown (in some cases, unknowable) over gore or other elements of shock which may still be present. ...

The contents are:

• "The Barrens" by F. Paul Wilson
• "Pickman's Modem" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• "Shaft Number 247" by Basil Copper
• "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood" by Poppy Z. Brite
• "The Adder" by Fred Chappell
• "Fat Face" by Michael Shea
• "The Big Fish" by Kim Newman
• "'I Had Vacantly Crumpled It Into My Pocket...But by God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!'" by Joanna Russ
• "H.P.L." by Gahan Wilson
• "The Unthinkable" by Bruce Sterling
• "Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein
• "Love's Eldritch Ichor" by Esther M. Friesner
• "The Last Feast of Harlequin" by Thomas Ligotti
• "The Shadow on the Doorstep" by James P. Blaylock
• "Lord of the Land" by Gene Wolfe
• "The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell
• "On the Slab" by Harlan Ellison
• "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" by Roger Zelazny

Francis Paul Wilson (b. ... Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is the pseudonym of American fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans. ... Photo of Poppy Z. Brite by J.K. Potter. ... Fred Davis Chappell (b. ... Michael Shea (1943-) is an American fantasy author. ... Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. ... Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937), American writer and feminist, is the author of a number of works of Science Fiction (among other types of writing), including The Female Man, an aclaimed SF novel and pioneering meditation on how differing societies might produce very different versions of the same person... Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930) is an author, cartoonist, and illustrator in the United States. ... Bruce Sterling at the Ars Electronica Festival Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. ... T. E. D. Klein (born 1947) is an American horror writer and editor. ... Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan) is a writer of horror stories. ... James P. Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. ... Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. ... Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. ...

The New Lovecraft Circle

The New Lovecraft Circle was edited by Robert M. Price and published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1996. Presenting the book as a sequel to Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, which focused on the circle of writers around Lovecraft that were collected in the first half of Derleth's Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Price declares that "the present collection means to ape the second half, to commemorate that dawn of a new era of Mythos fiction." He describes the contents as "little known and seldom seen stories by most of the seven members of the New Lovecraft Circle numbered by Lin Carter and by other, more recent adepts as well, for the tradition grows. The cult will not be stamped out."^[11] Robert McNair Price was born July 7, 1954 in Mississippi and is a Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies. ... See also: 1995 in literature, other events of 1996, 1997 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. ...

• "The Plain of Sound" by Ramsey Campbell
• "The Stone on the Island" by Ramsey Campbell
• "The Statement of One John Gibson" by Brian Lumley
• "Demoniacal" by David Sutton
• "The Kiss of Bugg-Shash" by Brian Lumley
• "The Slitherer from the Slime" by H. P. Lowcraft
• "The Doom of Yakthoob" by Lin Carter
• "The Fishers from Outside" by Lin Carter
• "The Keeper of the Flame" by Gary Myers
• "Dead Giveaway" by J. Vernon Shea
• "Those Who Wait" by James Wade
• "The Keeper of Dark Point" by John Glasby
• "The Black Mirror" by John Glasby
• "I've Come to Talk with You Again" by Karl Edward Wagner
• "The Howler in the Dark" by Richard L. Tierney
• "The Horror on the Beach" by Alan Dean Foster
• "The Whisperers" by Richard Lupoff
• "Lights! Camera! Shub-Niggurath!" by Richard Lupoff
• "Saucers from Yaddith" by Robert M. Price
• "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti
• "The Madness out of Space" by Peter H. Cannon
• "Aliah Warden" by Roger Johnson
• "The Last Supper" by Donald R. Burleson
• "The Church at Garlock's Bend" by David Kaufman
• "The Spheres Beyond Sound (Threnody)" by Mark Rainey

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Notes

1. ^ August Derleth, "The Cthulhu Mythos", Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
2. ^ Lin Carter, Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, p. 175.
3. ^ Edward P. Berglund, "Preface to the Revised Edition", The Disciples of Cthulhu.
4. ^ Ramsey Campbell, "Introduction", New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
5. ^ James Turner, "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!" Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology.
6. ^ Robert M. Price, "Introduction", Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos.
7. ^ Thomas M. K. Stratman, "The Nameless Manuscript", Cthulhu's Heirs, p. 8.
8. ^ D. M. Mitchell, "Foreward", The Starry Wisdom, p. 9.
9. ^ Mitchell, pp. 9-10.
10. ^ Jim Turner, "Cthulhu 2000", Cthulhu 2000, p. xv.
11. ^ Robert M. Price, "Introduction", The New Lovecraft Circle, p. xvii.

External link

• "The Disciples of Cthulhu", from E. P. Berglund's website