Crypt of Cthulhu

Crypt of Cthulhu
Crypt of Cthulhu
Editor Robert M. Price
Categories H. P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos
Publisher Cryptic Publications
Necronomicon Press
Mythos Books
Founder Robert M. Price
First issue 1981–2001
Language English
Website http://crypt-of-cthulhu.com/
ISSN 1077-8179

Crypt of Cthulhu was a fanzine devoted to the writings of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. It was published as part of the Esoteric Order of Dagon mailing lists for a short time, and was formally established in 1981 by Robert M. Price, who edited it throughout its subsequent run.

Described by its editor as "a bizarre miscegenation; half Lovecraft Studies rip-off, half humor magazine, a 'pulp thriller and theological journal,'"[1] it was a great deal more than that. It could fairly be called the nexus of all things Lovecraftian in its day.[citation needed] Lovecraft scholarship was always a mainstay, with articles contributed by Steve Behrends, Edward P. Berglund, Peter Cannon, Stefan Dziemianowicz, S. T. Joshi, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Dirk W. Mosig, Will Murray, Darrell Schweitzer, Colin Wilson and Price himself. But the magazine had stories and poems too, resurrected, newly discovered, or in a few cases newly written, by Lovecraft and other such Weird Tales veterans as R. H. Barlow, Robert Bloch, Hugh B. Cave, August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, Henry Kuttner, Frank Belknap Long, E. Hoffmann Price, Duane W. Rimel, Richard F. Searight, Clark Ashton Smith and Wilfred Blanch Talman. It also had stories and poems by newer writers paying tribute to the old, including Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, John Glasby, C. J. Henderson, T. E. D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Brian Lumley, Gary Myers and Richard L. Tierney. Its contents were illustrated by such artists of the fantastic as Thomas Brown, Jason C. Eckhardt, Stephen E. Fabian, D. L. Hutchinson, Robert H. Knox, Allen Koszowski, and Gahan Wilson. Its reviews covered genre books, films and games.

The magazine's run encompassed 108 issues over a span of 20 years. The first 76 issues, dated Hallowmas 1981 through Michaelmas 1990, were published by Price under his own Cryptic Publications imprint. The next 26 issues, dated Hallowmas 1990 through Eastertide 1999, were published by Necronomicon Press. The last 6 issues, dated Lammas 1999 through Eastertide 2001, were published by Mythos Books. The magazine has been inactive since 2001.

References

  1. ^ Robert M. Price (September 2004). "The Hyde Side Biography of Robert M. Price". http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/morebio.htm. 

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