{"id":15050,"date":"2023-01-18T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=15050"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:38:10","slug":"robert-m-prices-lovecraftian-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2023\/01\/18\/robert-m-prices-lovecraftian-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert M. Price&#8217;s Lovecraftian collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/tag\/robert-m-price\/\">Robert M. Price<\/a><\/strong> is an interesting person. He has been a Baptist minister, has two Ph.D.s in theology, and is a New Testament scholar and author. He is also a long-time <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/tag\/h-p-lovecraft\/\">H.P. Lovecraft<\/a><\/strong> scholar, publishing or editing several fanzines over the years, the most notable being <em>Crypt of Cthulhu<\/em> (over 100 issues at present), editing several collections of Lovecraftian works by many authors and writing his own Lovecraftian fiction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15329\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2022\/10\/robert-m-price.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[15050]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15329\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2022\/10\/robert-m-price-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Robert M. Price\" width=\"350\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2022\/10\/robert-m-price-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2022\/10\/robert-m-price-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2022\/10\/robert-m-price-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2022\/10\/robert-m-price.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert M. Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As it will take me some time to do the kinds of reviews of his works that I&#8217;d like, I wanted to kick things off with at least an overview article on some of the collections he has edited over the years.<\/p>\n<p>First off, he has edited a quartet of collections from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedoganandbremer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fedogan &amp; Bremer<\/a>, with covers by <strong>Gahan Wilson<\/strong>. Only some have been reprinted in paperback. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos<\/em> (1992), paperback by Del Rey<\/li>\n<li><em>The New Lovecraft Circle<\/em> (1996), paperback by Del Rey<\/li>\n<li><em>Acolytes of Cthulhu<\/em> (2001), paperback by Titan<\/li>\n<li><em>Worlds of Cthulhu<\/em> (2012)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Probably more interesting is the series of collections that I&#8217;ll call the &#8220;Lovecraft Cycle.&#8221; The idea of each of them is to introduce a Lovecraft entity or motif, present a story or two that may have influenced the creation of said entity or motif, and then present stories that followed and were influeced by Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p>This series started off at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosium.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chaosium<\/a>, and some are still in print, though later volumes have been at other publishers and sometimes not using &#8220;Cycle&#8221; in their title.\u00a0 Now, the most recent volume from Ramble House, <em>The Yog-Sothoth Cycle<\/em>, is the last.\u00a0 Which is a little disappointing, as I have notes that a couple of other volumes were promised that I don&#8217;t believe ever appeared.<\/p>\n<p>At present, they comprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Hastur Cycle<\/em> (1993, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young<\/em> (1994, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror<\/em> (1996, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Azathoth Cycle: The Blind Idiot God<\/em> (1995, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait<\/em> (1995, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Necronomicon<\/em> (1996, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones<\/em> (1998, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Nyarlathotep Cycle: The God of a Thousand Forms<\/em> (1996, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-Walker of the Icy Wastes<\/em> (1998, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Book of Eibon<\/em> (1999, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Antarktos Cycle: Horror and Wonder at the Ends of the Earth<\/em> (1999\/2006, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Tsathoggua Cycle: Terror Tales of the Toad God<\/em> (2005, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>Tales out of Dunwich<\/em> (2005, Hippocampus Press)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Tindalos Cycle<\/em> (2008, Hippocampus Press)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel<\/em> (2010, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>Beyond the Mountains of Madness<\/em> (2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celaenopress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celaeno Press<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Exham Cycle<\/em> (2020, Exham Priory)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Yig Cycle<\/em> (2021, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramblehouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramble House<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Yog Sothoth Cycle<\/em> (2022, Ramble House)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A further set of works are author-focused collections of all that author&#8217;s Lovecraftian or Mythos stories. So far we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mysteries of the Worm<\/em> (stories by <strong>Robert Bloch<\/strong>; (1993\/2009, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Book of Iod<\/em> (stories by <strong>Henry Kuttner<\/strong>; 1995, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of <strong>Lin Carter<\/strong><\/em> (1997, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of <strong>Robert E. Howard<\/strong><\/em> (2001, Chaosium)<\/li>\n<li><em>Lin Carter&#8217;s Simrana Cycle<\/em> (2018, Celaeno Press) [Dunsany-style stories]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had noted that Price has written his own Mythos fiction, and these have been collected recently in two volumes: <em>Blasphemies &amp; Revelations<\/em> (2008, 2019) and <em>Horrors &amp; Heresies<\/em> (2020). Both have been published by his own Exham Priory Press. The first one is massive, coming in at over 500 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting more detailed reviews of these and other works, including one (or more) on <em>Crypt of Cthulhu<\/em>. Keep an eye out for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert M. Price is an interesting person. He has been a Baptist minister, has two Ph.D.s in theology, and is a New Testament scholar and author. He is also a long-time H.P. 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