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Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos

1992

Material type

Publication date: 1992

Introduction

Lovecraft Mythos is an anthology of Cthulhu Mythos fiction edited by Robert M. Price and published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1992. In the Introduction Price describe the volume as:

an homage, thirty years after the untimely death of August Derleth (July 4, 1971), to his important collection Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.... My goal in assembling the present collection is, in effect, to go back and do again what August Derleth did: to assemble a flagship Mythos collection that he might as well have assembled. It is an alternate version of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The editor notes that the book "covers the pulp era, but extends no further. We are concerned here with the foundational generation of Mythos writers." It also is an attempt to "assemble the stories in which certain important Mythos names or items are either first mentioned or most fully explained by the author who created them":

here you will find the truth that had hitherto been mercifully cloaked beneath the mystifying names Abhoth, Atlach-Nacha, Unter Zee Kulten, Hydrophinnae, the Eltdown Shards, ’Umr at-Tawil, Lloigor, Zhar, the Tcho-Tcho people, Ithaqua, Iod, Vorvadoss, Zuchequan, the Chronicle of Nath, and others.

Several of the stories in the collection appear in earlier forms that differ significantly from later revisions--including "The Lord of Illusion", the original draft of the story that became the H.P. Lovecraft/E. Hoffman Price collaboration "Through the Gates of the Silver Key".

Price's subsequent anthology The New Lovecraft Circle serves as a sequel of sorts to Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, collecting work from the next generation of Lovecraftian writers.

Notes

"First Edition" on copyright page. Cover artist credited on copyright page and rear jacket flap. The Endpiece artist is credited on the copyright page.

Edited by Robert M. Price
Limited edition of 3500 copies
"The Fire of Asshurbanipal" was originally written early in the 1930s as a straight adventure story. There is no record of where this version of the story was submitted.
REH later revised the story to have a supernatural ending. This version was submitted to WEIRD TALES after Howard's death by his father.
Glenn Lord discovered the original version of the story in a trunk and it was first published in THE HOWARD COLLECTOR in Spring 1972.

Edition and production details

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Publication date: 1992
Identifiers: 187825202X
Pages: 330
Publisher / imprint: Fedogan & Bremer
Cover art: Gahan Wilson
Illustrations: None

2 linked Howard works

The Fire of Asshurbanipal (2)story
The Thing on the Roofstory

46 contents entries

"The Thing on the Roof"
Preface (Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos) • essay by Robert Bloch vii · introduction
"The Fire of Asshurbanipal" (2)
Introduction (Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos) • essay by Robert M. Price ix · introduction
Non-REH Content
The Thing on the Roof • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1932) • short story by Robert E. Howard 3 · story
"Preface" by Robert Bloch
The Fire of Asshurbanipal • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1936) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 12 · novelette
"Introduction" by Robert M. Price
The Seven Geases • [Hyperborea] • (1934) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith 28 · novelette
"The Seven Geases" by Clark Ashton Smith
Fane of the Black Pharaoh • (1937) • short story by Robert Bloch 47 · story
"Fane of the Black Pharoh" by Robert Bloch
The Invaders • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner 64 · story
"The Invaders" by Henry Kuttner
The Bells of Horror • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner 80 · story
"Bells of Horror" by by Henry Kuttner
The Thing That Walked on the Wind • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft contemporary)] • (1933) • short story by August Derleth 94 · story
"The Thing that Walked on the Wind" by August Derleth
Ithaqua • (1941) • short story by August Derleth 105 · story
"Ithaqua" by August Derleth
The Lair of the Star-Spawn • (1932) • novelette by August Derleth and Mark Schorer 117 · novelette
"The Lair of the Star-Spawn" by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
The Lord of Illusion • (1982) • short story by E. Hoffmann Price 137 · story
"The Lord of Illusion" by E. Hoffmann Price
The Warder of Knowledge • short story by Richard F. Searight 153 · story
"The Warder of Knowledge" by Richard F. Searight
The Scourge of B'Moth • (1929) • novelette by Bertram Russell 167 · novelette
"The Scourge of B'Moth" by Bertram Russell
The House of the Worm • (1933) • novelette by Mearle Prout 196 · novelette
"The House of the Worm" by Mearle Prout
Spawn of the Green Abyss • (1946) • novelette by C. Hall Thompson 216 · novelette
"Spawn of the Green Abyss" by C. Hall Thompson
The Guardian of the Book • (1937) • short story by Henry Hasse 258 · story
"The Guardian of the Book" by Henry Haase
The Abyss • (1941) • short story by Robert A. W. Lowndes 284 · story
"The Abyss" by Robert A. W. Lowndes
Music of the Stars • (1943) • short story by Duane W. Rimel 292 · story
"Music of the Stars" by Duane W. Rimel
The Aquarium • (1962) • short story by Carl Jacobi 300 · story
"The Aquarium" by Carl Jacobi
The Horror Out of Lovecraft • (1969) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim 311 · story
"The Horror Out of Lovecraft" by Donald A Wollheim
To Arkham and the Stars • (1966) • short story by Fritz Leiber 318 · story
"To Arkham and the Stars" by Fritz Leiber
ep • Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos • interior artwork by Kenneth Rahman [as by Eymoth] artwork

Contributors

Gahan Wilson: Cover artist

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

August Derleth Bertram Russell C. Hall Thompson Carl Jacobi Clark Ashton Smith Donald A. Wollheim Duane W. Rimel Fritz Leiber H. P. Lovecraft Henry Hasse Henry Kuttner Kenneth Rahman Mark Schorer Mearle Prout Richard F. Searight Robert A. W. Lowndes Robert Bloch Robert E. Howard Robert M. Price