Robert M. Price is an American theologian and writer. He has written extensively within the Cthulhu Mythos. Journal of Higher Criticism, accessed April 9, 2010; Joshi, S. T. and Schultz, David E. An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Hippocampus Press, p. 217. ISBN 0-9748789-1-X
He made a podcast discussing the Lovecraft Mythos of more than a hundred episodes.[1]
He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
He is known for arguing against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He teaches philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus.
H. P. Lovecraft scholarship
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As editor of the journal Crypt of Cthulhu The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia Elder Signs Press. (published by Necronomicon Press) and of a series of Cthulhu Mythos anthologies,Shannon Appelcline, A Brief History of Game #3: Chaosium: 1975-present on RPG.net Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares Greenwood Publishing Group. The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography Greenwood Press. Price has been a major figure in H. P. Lovecraft scholarship and fandom for many years. (2008) Tour De Lovecraft: The Tales Atomic Overmind Press. In essays that introduce the anthologies and the individual stories, Price traces the origins of Lovecraft's entities, motifs, and literary style. The Cthulhu Cycle, for example, saw the origins of the octopoid entity in Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Kraken" and particular passages from Lord Dunsany, while The Dunwich Cycle points to the influence of Arthur Machen on Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror."
Price's religious background often informs his Mythos criticism, seeing gnostic themes in Lovecraft's fictional god Azathoth "Introduction". The Azathoth Cycle Chaosium. and interpreting "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" as a kind of initiation ritual. (2008) Tour De Lovecraft: The Tales Atomic Overmind Press.
Most of the early Cthulhu books by Chaosium were overseen by Price; his first book was The Hastur Cycle (1993), an anthology of short stories which traced the development of a single Lovecraftian element, and this was followed by Mysteries of the Worm (1993), a collection of Robert Bloch's Mythos fiction.Shannon Appelcline (2011) Designers & Dragons Mongoose Publishing, p. 91.
Selected WorksEdit
Crypt of CthulhuEdit
151 issues.[2]
- V1.1 The Premier Issue - Hallowmas 1981
- V1.2 Yuletide 1981
- V1.3 Robert E. Howard Issue - Candlemas 1982
- V1.4 Lovecraft & Modern Science Issue - Eastertide 1982
- V1.5 Lovecraft & Occult Cosmology - Roodmas 1982
- V1.6 August Derleth Issue - St. John's Eve 1982
- V1.7 Lammas 1982
- V1.8 Michaelmas 1982
- V2.1 Cthulhu Issue - Hallowmas 1982
- V2.2 Ashes and Others - Yuletide 1982
- V2.3 Revisions Issue I - Candlemas 1983
- V2.4 Eastertide 1983
- V2.5 Lovecraft & the Inklings - Roodmas 1983
- V2.6 St. John's Eve 1983
- V2.7 Dunsanian Fiction Issue - Lammas 1983
- V2.8 Tales from the Crypt of Cthulhu - Michaelmas 1983
- V3.1 Revisions Issue II - Hallowmas 1983
- V3.2 Yuletide 1983
- V3.3 Brian Lumley Issue - Candlemas 1984
- V3.4 Poetry Issue - Eastertide 1984
- V3.5 Saturnalia and Other Poems by H. P. Lovecraft - Eastertide 1984
- V3.6 Roodmas 1984
- V3.7 Books of the Mythos - St. John's Eve 1984
- V3.8 Richard L. Tierney Issue - Lammas 1984
- V3.9 Weird Tales Tribute Issue - Michaelmas 1984
- V4.1 Clark Ashton Smith Issue - Hallowmas 1984
- V4.2 Untold Tales by Clark Ashton Smith - Hallowmas 1984
- V4.3 Lovecraft's Non-Mythos Horror Tales - Yuletide 1984
- V4.4 Fiction Issue I - Candlemas 1985
- V4.5 Eastertide 1985
- V4.6 Fiction Issue II - Roodmas 1985
- V4.7 At the Mountains of Madness Issue - St. John's Eve 1985
- V4.8 Dirk W. Mosig Issue - Lammas 1985
- V4.9 Best of the Providence Pals - Michaelmas 1985
- V5.1 Cthulhu Mythos Issue - Hallowmas 1985
- V5.2 Lin Carter Issue - Yuletide 1985
- V5.3 Candlemas 1986
- V5.4 Eastertide 1986
- V5.5 Fiction Issue III - Roodmas 1986
- V5.6 Robert Bloch Issue - St. John's Eve 1986
- V5.7 Henry Kuttner Issue - Lammas 1986
- V5.8 Frank Belknap Long Issue - Michaelmas 1986
- V6.1 The Tomb Herd and Others by Ramsey Campbell - Hallowmas 1986
- V6.2 Medusa and Other Poems by H. P. Lovecraft - Yuletide 1986
- V6.3 Candlemas 1987
- V6.4 Lovecraft's Letters - Eastertide 1987
- V6.5 Fiction Issue IV - Roodmas 1987
- V6.6 St. John's Eve 1987
- V6.7 Lovecraft's Literary Influences - Lammas 1987
- V6.8 Ghostly Tales by Ramsey Campbell - Michaelmas 1987
- V7.1 Hallowmas 1987
- V7.2 Lovecraft in Lovecraftian Fiction - Yuletide 1987
- V7.3 HPL's Fragments - Candlemas 1988
- V7.4 The Fishers From Outside - Eastertide 1988
- V7.5 The Cryptophile - Eastertide 1988
- V7.6 Fiction Issue V - Roodmas 1988
- V7.7 St. John's Eve 1988
- V7.8 A Critical Commentary on the Necronomicon - Lammas 1988
- V7.9 Forgotten Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos - Michaelmas 1988
- V8.1 Robert H. Barlow Issue - Hallowmas 1988
- V8.2 Mad Arab Magazine - Yuletide 1988
- 61½ V8.3 Yuletide 1988
- V8.4 Candlemas 1989
- V8.5 Eastertide 1989
- V8.6 Roodmas 1989
- V8.7 St. John's Eve 1989
- V8.8 Lammas 1989
- V8.9 Michaelmas 1989
- V9.1 Hallowmas 1989
- V9.2 Lin Carter Issue - Yuletide 1989
- V9.3 Lin Carter's Necronomicon - Candlemas 1990
- V9.4 Stories of Cyclopean Horror, by John Glasby - Eastertide 1990
- V9.5 Roodmas 1990
- V9.6 St. John's Eve 1990
- V9.7 Lammas 1990
- V9.8 Michaelmas 1990
- V10.1 Hallowmas 1990
- a
As WriterEdit
- "HPL and HPB: Lovecraft's Use of Theosophy" in Crypt of Cthulhu (1982) (archive)
