Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos is an anthology of Cthulhu Mythos fiction edited by Robert M. Price and published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1992.
In his introduction, Price describes 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.
Contents[]
- "Preface," by Robert Bloch
- "Introduction," by Robert M. Price
- "The Thing on the Roof" by Robert E. Howard
- "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" by Robert E. Howard
- "The Seven Geases" by Clark Ashton Smith
- "Fane of the Black Pharaoh" by Robert Bloch
- "The Invaders" by Henry Kuttner
- "The Thing That Walked on the Wind" by August Derleth
- "Ithaqua" by August Derleth
- "The Lair of the Star-Spawn" by August Derleth & Mark Schorer
- "The Lord of Illusion" by E. Hoffmann Price
- "The Warder of Knowledge" by Richard F. Searight
- "The Scourge of B'Moth" by Bertram Russell
- "The House of the Worm" by Mearle Prout
- "Spawn of the Green Abyss" by C. Hall Thompson
- "The Guardian of the Book" by Henry Hasse
- "The Abyss" by Robert A. W. Lowndes
- "Music of the Stars" by Duane W. Rimel
- "The Aquarium" by Carl Jacobi
- "The Horror out of Lovecraft" by Donald A. Wollheim
- "To Arkham and the Stars" by Fritz Leiber