Crypt of Cthulhu

Volume Three
1983 / 1984

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #17
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Revisions Issue II
Vol. 3 No. 1 Hallowmas 1983
Original Price:  $2.00     52 pages

Copyright © 1983

Crypt of Cthulhu

Editorial Offices
35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
A Symposium on "The Tree on the Hill"
        Lovecraftian Branches in Rimel's "Tree"
        Who Wrote "The Tree on the Hill"?
        Some Comments on "The Tree on the
                Hill"
        On "The Tree on the Hill"
        Lovecraft's Role in "The Tree on the Hill"
        Examining "The Tree on the Hill"
         A "New" Lovecraft Tale
        Regarding Lovecraft's Hand in "The Tree
                on the Hill"
Self-Parody in Lovecraft's Revisions
On "The Loved Dead"
New Clues to Lovecraft's Role in "Out of the
        Eons" and "The Crawling Chaos"
Mysteries of the Hoggar Region
Lovecraft's Contribution to "Till A' the Seas"
Irony (Poetry)
The Wanderer's Return (Poetry)
Lost Revisions?
Advice to the Lovecraft-Lorn (Column)
R'lyeh Review
         Pet Sematary by Stephen King
        Dark Valley Destiny:  The Life of Robert
                E. Howard by L. Sprague deCamp
        Weird Tales #4 edited by Lin Carter
        The Arkham Evil by John Diaper (Game)
Mail-Call of Cthulhu



Donald Burleson
Peter Cannon
William Fulwiler

S. T. Joshi
Steven Mariconda
Will Murray
Robert M. Price
David E. Schultz

Will Murray
David E. Schultz
Robert M. Price

Will Murray
S. T. Joshi
Wilson Shepherd
H. P. Lovecraft
Robert M. Price
Donna Death

Robert M. Price
Marc A. Cerasini
 & C. Hoffman
Robert M. Price
Scott D. Briggs

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #18
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Vol. 3 No. 2 Yuletide 1983
Original Price:  $2.00     40 pages

Copyright © 1983

Crypt of Cthulhu

Editorial Offices
35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
The Cthulhuers (Fiction)
H. P. Lovecraft as I Knew Him
The Lurker in the VCR
Lovecraft's Influence on Stephen King
The Scales of Horror
Obed and Obadiah Marsh
"Lovecraftianity" and the Pagan Revival
The Cthulhu Controversy
Locating Lovecraft
Lovecraft and the Mythos in Stephen King
The Not-So-Great Race
Mearle Prout and "The House of the Worm"
More Limericks From Yuggoth
Fun Guys From Yuggoth (Column)
R'lyeh Review
         H. P. Lovecraft, A Critical Study
                by Donald R. Burleson
         The She-Devil by Robert E. Howard
         Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
         The Invincible Doc Savage
                by Edward Gruskin
Advice to the Lovecraft-Lorn (Column)
Mail-Call of Cthulhu

 
John Strysik
Duane Rimel
Denise Dumars
Sam Gafford
Bert Atsma
Tani Jantsang
Robert M. Price
Ed DeGeorge
Ralph E. Vaughan
Robert M. Price
John A. Buettner
Will Murray
Lin Carter
Carolyn L. Boyd

Steven Mariconda

Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price

Donna Death

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #19 (Issue information supplied by Malcolm Johnson)
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Brian Lumley Issue
Vol. 3 No. 3 Candlemas 1984
Original Price:  $2.00     60 pages

Copyright © 1984

Crypt of Cthulhu

Editorial Offices
35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Stephen E. Fabian
Interior artwork by Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
Brian Lumley --- Reanimator
Demoniacal (Fiction)
The Kiss of Bugg-Shash (Fiction)
The Statement of One John Gibson (Fiction)

Interview with Brian Lumley
Sea Fret (Poetry)
Mammoth Rider (Poetry)
Advice to the Lovecraft-Lorn (Column)
R'lyeh Review
          The Asylum and Other Tales (Game)
Mail-Call of Cthulhu

 
Robert M. Price
David A. Sutton
Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley
Robert M. Price
Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley
Donna Death

Scott D. Briggs

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #20
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Poetry Issue
Vol. 3 No. 4 Eastertide 1984
Original Price:  $2.00     52 pages

Copyright © 1984

Cryptic
         Publications

35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Jim Garrison

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
H. P. Lovecraft's Fungi From Yuggoth
Two Discarded Drafts of "The Well"
The Story in Fungi From Yuggoth
Preference (Poetry)
The Lack of Continuity in Fungi From Yuggoth
Nepenthe (Poetry)
Illuminating "The Elder Pharos"
Wings of Dream (Poetry)
"St. Toad's" Revisited
Poet of the Unknown
Quatrain (Poetry)
Two Spurious Lovecraft Poems
The First Cthulhu Mythos Poem
An Errata List to A Winter Wish
R'lyeh Review
        "The Return of the Deep Ones"
                by Brian Lumley
        Weirdbook #19 edited by W. Paul Ganley
          The Fantasy Gamer
The Frozen Waterfall (Poetry)
Mail-Call of Cthulhu
Untitled
Above the Loud Sea
The Ship
The Questioner
To Heine
The Lake of Enchanted Silence


David E. Schultz
H. P. Lovecraft
Ralph E. Vaughan
Clark A. Smith
David E. Schultz
Samuel Loveman
Will Murray
Duane Rimel
Robert M. Price
Dirk W. Mosig
Samuel Loveman
S. T. Joshi
Will Murray
S. T. Joshi

Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price
Clark A. Smith

Clark A. Smith
Clark A. Smith
Duane Rimel
R. H. Barlow
Samuel Loveman
Clark A. Smith

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #21
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Saturnalia and Other Poems by H. P. Lovecraft
Vol. 3 No. 5 Eastertide 1984
Original Price:  $2.00     60 pages

Copyright © 1984

Cryptic
         Publications

35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Rick Bryant

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Introduction
On the Creation of Niggers
To Mr. Munroe, on His Instructive and
        Entertaining Account of Switzerland
The Decline and Fall of a Man of the World
To an Accomplished Young Gentlewoman on
        her Birthday
On an Accomplished Young Linguist
The Road to Ruin
Verses Designed to be Sent by a Friend of the
        Author to His Brother-in-Law on New
        Year's Day
To "The Scribblers"
The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad
Providence Amateur Press Club (Deceased) to
        the Athenaeum Club of Journalism
The Well
Gryphus in Asinum Mutatus
To the Arcadian
To the Nurses of the Red Cross
To the A. H. S. P. C. on Receipt of the May
        Pippin
To the A. H. S. P. C. on Receipt of the
        Christmas Pippin
Sors Poetae
"The Political Punch" Pushed From His Pedestal
To Mr. Kleiner, On Receiving From Him the
        Poetical Works of Addison, Gay, and
        Somerville
To Col. Linkaby Didd
Epigrams
On Collaboration
On Receiving a Portraiture of Mrs. Berkeley, ye
        Poetess
With a Copy of Wilde's Fairy Tales
To S. S. L.:  Christmas 1920
To Saml Loveman, Esq.
To Saml Loveman, Gent.
Damon and Lycë
To Two Epgephi
To Mr. Baldwin, Upon Receiving a Picture of
        Him in a Rural Bower
Hedone
Saturnalia
To Xanthippe, on Her Birthday --- March 16,
        1925
Veteropinguis Redivivus
My Lost Love
On an Unspoil'd Rural Prospect
A Young Poet in Dunedin
Christmas Greetings
A Brumalian Wish
Theobaldian Hibernation
To Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Eddy, Jr.
To an Author of Juvenile Literature
Notes

S. T. Joshi
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S. T. Joshi

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #22
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Vol. 3 No. 6 Roodmas 1984
Original Price:  $2.00     60 pages

Copyright © 1984

Cryptic
         Publications

35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Allen Koszowski

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
The Thing Under Memphis (Fiction)
The Priest of Mlok (Fiction)
The Fear-Master (Fiction)
John Buchan:  A Possible Influence on Lovecraft
Comments on Robert M. Price's
        "Brian Lumley --- Reanimator"
Reuterdahl, Relativity and the "Aimless Waves"
Robert W. Chambers
A Weird Tales Filmography
Lovecraft's "Weird Families"
H. P. Lovecraft and Isadora Duncan
The Unpleasant Dreams of H. P. Lovecraft
Supernatural Horror in Lovecraft's Literature
Did Lovecraft Read Middlemarch?
Fun Guys From Yuggoth (Column)
R'lyeh Review
         Collected Poems:  Nightmares and
                Visions by Richard L. Tierney
        "The Soul of Kephri"
                by Richard L. Tierney
Advice to the Lovecraft-Lorn (Column)
Mail-Call of Cthulhu


Lin Carter
Gary Myers
Robert Howard
Sam Moskowitz
Brian Lumley

Richard Tierney
S. T. Joshi
William Fulwiler
Ralph E. Vaughan
Carolyn L. Boyd
Eileen McNamara
Charles Hoffman
Peter Cannon
Patrice  Joubert

Lin Carter

Robert M. Price

Donna Death

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #23
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Books of the Mythos
Vol. 3 No. 7 St. John's Eve 1984
Original Price:  $2.00     56 pages

Copyright © 1984

Cryptic
         Publications

35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Peter H. Gilmore
Interior artwork by Mike MacKenzie, Rodolfo A. Ferraresi, & Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
The Necronomicon, John Dee's Translation
        (Fiction)
The Revelations of Glaaki
(Fiction)
Cthaat Aquadingen
(Fiction)
The Third Cryptical Book of Hsan
(Fiction)
The Necronomicon
:  Concerning Them From
        Outside (Fiction)
The Book of Eibon
:  The Unbegotten Source
        (Fiction)
Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus
:  The
        Incantation of the Elder Sign (Fiction)
The Necronomicon
---The Origin of a Spoof
Preface to The Necronomicon
The Case of Simon's Necronomicon
Lovecraft's Necronomicon:  An Introduction
Reconstructing De Vermis Mysteriis
Some Notes on the Eltdown Shards
The Pnakotic Manuscripts:  A Study
Prehuman Language in Lovecraft
Fun Guys From Yuggoth (Column)
R'lyeh Review
        "The Fire of Mazda"
                by Richard L. Tierney
Mail-Call of Cthulhu

 
Frank B. Long

Ramsey Campbell
Brian Lumley
Gary Myers
Lin Carter

Lin Carter


Lin Carter

Colin Wilson
L. S. deCamp
Robert C. Carey
Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price
Will Murray
Steve Behrends

Robert M. Price

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #24
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Richard L. Tierney Issue
Vol. 3 No. 8 Lammas 1984
Original Price:  $2.00     56 pages

Copyright © 1984

Cryptic
         Publications

35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Stephan E. Fabian

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
The Seed of the Star-God (Fiction)
The Howler in the Dark (Fiction)
Simon of Gitta:  A Chronology and Bibliography
An Interview with Richard L. Tierney
The Nameless City (Poetry)
Harag-Kolath (Poetry)
The Derleth Mythos
R'lyeh Review
          Conan the Destroyer (Movie)
Mail-Call of Cthulhu


Richard Tierney
Richard Tierney
Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price
Richard Tierney
Richard Tierney
Richard Tierney

C. J. Henderson

 

Crypt of Cthulhu #25
A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal

Weird Tales Tribute Issue
Vol. 3 No. 9 Michaelmas 1984
Original Price:  $2.50     56 pages

Copyright © 1984

Cryptic
         Publications

35 Elmbrook Pl.
Bloomfield, NJ
07003

Cover artwork by Stephen E. Fabian
Interior artwork by Jason Eckhardt, Jeff Dee, and Allen Koszowski

Robert M. Price, Editor

Contents

Editorial Shards
Gateway to Forever (Fiction)
Josephine Gage (Fiction)
Strange Shadows (Fiction)
The Supreme Moment (Fiction)
Just the Two of Us (Fiction)
The Hampdon Horror (Fiction)
R'lyeh Review
         The Color Out of Time by Michael Shea
         Pulptime by Peter H. Cannon
        The Dark Barbarian
                edited by Don Herron
        The Ceremonies by T. E. D. Klein
Mail-Call of Cthulhu

 
Frank B. Long
Carl Jacobi
Clark A. Smith
Robert Howard
Hugh B. Cave
Duane Rimel

Lin Carter
S. T. Joshi
Marc A. Cerasini

Steven Mariconda