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This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. 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

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 Works

Crypt of Cthulhu

151 issues.[2]

  1. V1.1 The Premier Issue - Hallowmas 1981
  2. V1.2 Yuletide 1981
  3. V1.3 Robert E. Howard Issue - Candlemas 1982
  4. V1.4 Lovecraft & Modern Science Issue - Eastertide 1982
  5. V1.5 Lovecraft & Occult Cosmology - Roodmas 1982
  6. V1.6 August Derleth Issue - St. John's Eve 1982
  7. V1.7 Lammas 1982
  8. V1.8 Michaelmas 1982
  9. V2.1 Cthulhu Issue - Hallowmas 1982
  10. V2.2 Ashes and Others - Yuletide 1982
  11. V2.3 Revisions Issue I - Candlemas 1983
  12. V2.4 Eastertide 1983
  13. V2.5 Lovecraft & the Inklings - Roodmas 1983
  14. V2.6 St. John's Eve 1983
  15. V2.7 Dunsanian Fiction Issue - Lammas 1983
  16. V2.8 Tales from the Crypt of Cthulhu - Michaelmas 1983
  17. V3.1 Revisions Issue II - Hallowmas 1983
  18. V3.2 Yuletide 1983
  19. V3.3 Brian Lumley Issue - Candlemas 1984
  20. V3.4 Poetry Issue - Eastertide 1984
  21. V3.5 Saturnalia and Other Poems by H. P. Lovecraft - Eastertide 1984
  22. V3.6 Roodmas 1984
  23. V3.7 Books of the Mythos - St. John's Eve 1984
  24. V3.8 Richard L. Tierney Issue - Lammas 1984
  25. V3.9 Weird Tales Tribute Issue - Michaelmas 1984
  26. V4.1 Clark Ashton Smith Issue - Hallowmas 1984
  27. V4.2 Untold Tales by Clark Ashton Smith - Hallowmas 1984
  28. V4.3 Lovecraft's Non-Mythos Horror Tales - Yuletide 1984
  29. V4.4 Fiction Issue I - Candlemas 1985
  30. V4.5 Eastertide 1985
  31. V4.6 Fiction Issue II - Roodmas 1985
  32. V4.7 At the Mountains of Madness Issue - St. John's Eve 1985
  33. V4.8 Dirk W. Mosig Issue - Lammas 1985
  34. V4.9 Best of the Providence Pals - Michaelmas 1985
  35. V5.1 Cthulhu Mythos Issue - Hallowmas 1985
  36. V5.2 Lin Carter Issue - Yuletide 1985
  37. V5.3 Candlemas 1986
  38. V5.4 Eastertide 1986
  39. V5.5 Fiction Issue III - Roodmas 1986
  40. V5.6 Robert Bloch Issue - St. John's Eve 1986
  41. V5.7 Henry Kuttner Issue - Lammas 1986
  42. V5.8 Frank Belknap Long Issue - Michaelmas 1986
  43. V6.1 The Tomb Herd and Others by Ramsey Campbell - Hallowmas 1986
  44. V6.2 Medusa and Other Poems by H. P. Lovecraft - Yuletide 1986
  45. V6.3 Candlemas 1987
  46. V6.4 Lovecraft's Letters - Eastertide 1987
  47. V6.5 Fiction Issue IV - Roodmas 1987
  48. V6.6 St. John's Eve 1987
  49. V6.7 Lovecraft's Literary Influences - Lammas 1987
  50. V6.8 Ghostly Tales by Ramsey Campbell - Michaelmas 1987
  51. V7.1 Hallowmas 1987
  52. V7.2 Lovecraft in Lovecraftian Fiction - Yuletide 1987
  53. V7.3 HPL's Fragments - Candlemas 1988
  54. V7.4 The Fishers From Outside - Eastertide 1988
  55. V7.5 The Cryptophile - Eastertide 1988
  56. V7.6 Fiction Issue V - Roodmas 1988
  57. V7.7 St. John's Eve 1988
  58. V7.8 A Critical Commentary on the Necronomicon - Lammas 1988
  59. V7.9 Forgotten Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos - Michaelmas 1988
  60. V8.1 Robert H. Barlow Issue - Hallowmas 1988
  61. V8.2 Mad Arab Magazine - Yuletide 1988
    • 61½ V8.3 Yuletide 1988
  62. V8.4 Candlemas 1989
  63. V8.5 Eastertide 1989
  64. V8.6 Roodmas 1989
  65. V8.7 St. John's Eve 1989
  66. V8.8 Lammas 1989
  67. V8.9 Michaelmas 1989
  68. V9.1 Hallowmas 1989
  69. V9.2 Lin Carter Issue - Yuletide 1989
  70. V9.3 Lin Carter's Necronomicon - Candlemas 1990
  71. V9.4 Stories of Cyclopean Horror, by John Glasby - Eastertide 1990
  72. V9.5 Roodmas 1990
  73. V9.6 St. John's Eve 1990
  74. V9.7 Lammas 1990
  75. V9.8 Michaelmas 1990
  76. V10.1 Hallowmas 1990
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