Lovecraft scholar and editor
Robert M. Price has contributed much to the study and appreciation of weird fiction both vintage and modern. With his fanzine in 1981,
Crypt of Cthulhu, Price featured fiction from all the familiar names associated with the Lovecraftian circle, as well as nonfiction and reviews by himself and fellow writers. His background was in theology, so his approach to the Mythos was thorough and perceptive. Price kept
Crypt going for 20 years, and you can get later issues from
Necronomicon Press.
Dig these hand-drawn covers for
Crypt! Really love the aesthetic, I daresay ol' HPL, amateur journalist that he was, would've too. You can find a lot of the articles included in these
online, which I highly recommend reading, especially his early
Stephen King reviews.
In the early-mid 1990s Price began editing Mythos anthologies for the RPG publisher
Chaosium, and below are a few of the trade paperback anthologies, each which expanded on a particular entity or town in the Mythos. These titles seemed ubiquitous while I was working in a chain bookstore then, but I never read any though. What am I missing?
I picked up a few Crypt of Cthulhus here and there back in the day. I appreciated the mix of seriousness, humor, and fiction. I remember seeing those anthologies but never purchased any, good to see them together.
ReplyDeleteI quite enjoyed The Ithaqua Cycle. Some of the material is bad, but there's also some interesting material in there I hadn't read before, including a pre-HPL pulp story that riffs on both "The Wendigo" and "The Willows." And Price's notes are solid.
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