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Cthulhu Mythos Anthology 1 Cthulhu Mythos Anthology Cthulhu Mythos anthology 1 Cthulhu Mythos anthology 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. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Author H. P. Lovecraft and Others Cover artist Lee Brown Coye Country United States Language English Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1969 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages vii, 407 pp ISBN NA 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. It was published in an edition of 4,024 copies. 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] Contents The contents of the original 1969 edition are: • "The Cthulhu Mythos" by August Derleth • "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 Cthulhu Mythos anthology 2 • "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 Haunter of the Graveyard" by J. Vernon Shea* • "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 Reprints • New York: Ballantine, 1971 (2 vols.). • London: Grafton, 1988. • Sauk City, WI: Arkham House November 1989 (variant contents). This later revised edition, edited and introduced by James Turner, drops the stories by Shea and Wade, and the two by Lumley, and adds the following seven tales: • "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber • "Rising with Surtsey" by Brian Lumley • "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 For full details of the revised ed see Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology below. The Disciples of Cthulhu The Disciples of Cthulhu Author edited by Edward P. Berglund Cover artist Karel Thole Country United States Language English Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories Publisher DAW Books Publication date 1976 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 288 pp ISBN NA Cthulhu Mythos anthology 3 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] 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." Contents The contents are: • "Editor's Foreword" by Edward P. Berglund • "Introduction" by Robert Bloch • "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. New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Author edited by Ramsey Campbell Cover artist Jason Van Hollander Country United States Language English Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1980 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages xi, 257 pp ISBN 0-87054-085-8 New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos was edited by Ramsey Campbell and published by Arkham House in 1980 in an edition of 3,647 copies. 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." Cthulhu Mythos anthology 4 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] One story in the book is an expansion, by Martin S. Warnes, of Lovecraft's fragment "The Book". Contents The contents are: • "Introduction" • "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 • "Notes on Contributors" Reprints Arkham House • second printing, 1982 (2,057 copies). • third printing, 1987 (no print numbers given). Others • London: Grafton, 1988. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Author H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands Illustrator Jeffrey K. Potter Cover artist Jeffrey K. Potter Country United States Language English Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories Publisher Arkham House Publication date 1990 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages xiv, 529 pp ISBN ISBN 0-87054-159-5 Cthulhu Mythos anthology 5 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." It was released in an edition of 7,015 copies. Turner eliminates some authors from the earlier edition (totalling four stories, those by Wade, Shea and two by Lumley) --while still suggesting that "a few of the earliest pieces in this volume...now seem like pop-cultural kitsch." The added seven stories, 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] Contents The contents are: • "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!", by James Turner • "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 Cthulhu Mythos anthology 6 Reprints Arkham House • second printing, 2000 (no print numbers given). Others • New York: Ballantine/Del Rey, 1998. Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos Author edited by Robert M. Price Cover artist Gahan Wilson Country United States Language English Genre Fantasy, Horror short stories Publisher Fedogan & Bremer Publication date 1992 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 327 pp ISBN ISBN 1-878252-02-X 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.
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