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This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. The Horror of It All: Encrusted Gems from the "Crypt of Cthulhu" is a collection of essays (along with selected fiction) on H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos and related subjects that appeared in the fanzine Crypt of Cthulhu, edited by Robert M. Price. "The title is not, as one might expect, 'The Best of The Crypt of Cthulhu'," Price noted in the introduction, "since there is simply too much to choose from. The contents of this collection are among the best, but that would be a peculiar title!"

The Horror of It All was published in 1990 by Starmont House (Mercer Island, Washington). A second collection of Crypt of Cthulhu material, Black Forbidden Things, was published in 1992.

Contents[]

  • "Introduction" by Robert M. Price
  • "Lovecraft’s Revisions: How Much of Them Did He Write?" by S. T. Joshi (Crypt of Cthulhu 11)
  • "The Real World and the Dream World in Lovecraft" by S. T. Joshi (Crypt of Cthulhu 15)
  • "The Origin of Lovecraft’s 'Black Magic' Quote" by David E. Schultz (Crypt of Cthulhu 48)
  • "Lovecraft's Ghouls" by Will Murray (Crypt of Cthulhu 14)
  • "Baring-Gould and the Ghouls: The Influence of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages on 'The Rats in the Walls'" by Steven J. Mariconda (Crypt of Cthulhu 14)
  • "'The Hound'—a Dead Dog?" by Steven J. Mariconda (Crypt of Cthulhu 38)
  • "On 'The Loved Dead'" by David E. Schultz (Crypt of Cthulhu 17)
  • "Digging Up Irem" by Lin Carter (Crypt of Cthulhu 45)
  • "CAS & Divers Hands" by Steve Behrends (Crypt of Cthulhu 26)
  • "The Clark Ashton Smythos" by Will Murray (Crypt of Cthulhu 26)
  • "The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert Bloch" by Randall D. Larson (Crypt of Cthulhu 40)
  • "Reconstructing De Vermis Mysteriis" by Robert M. Price (Crypt of Cthulhu 23)
  • "Solar Pons Meets Cthulhu" by S. T. Joshi (Crypt of Cthulhu 6)
  • "The True History of the Tcho-Tcho People" by Robert M. Price and Tani Jantsang (Crypt of Cthulhu 51)
  • "Obed and Obadiah Marsh" by Robert M. Price and Tani Jantsang (Crypt of Cthulhu 18)
  • "The Strange Case of Robert Ervin Howard" by Charles Hoffman and Marc A. Cerasini (Crypt of Cthulhu 3)
  • "Gol-Goroth, A Forgotten Old One" by Robert M. Price (Crypt of Cthulhu 3)
  • "The Statement of Lin Carter" by Robert M. Price (Crypt of Cthulhu 2)
  • "The Carter-Smith 'Collaborations'” by Steve Behrends (Crypt of Cthulhu 36)
  • "Henry Kuttner’s Cthulhu Mythos Fiction: An Overview" by Shawn Ramsey (Crypt of Cthulhu 51)
  • "The Transition of Colin Wilson" by Charles Hoffman and Marc A. Cerasini (Crypt of Cthulhu 7)
  • "Brian Lumley—Reanimator" by Robert M. Price (Crypt of Cthulhu 19)
  • "The Fantasy and Mystery Bookshop" by Peter H. Cannon (Crypt of Cthulhu 47)
  • "The Pool" by Donald R. Burleson (Crypt of Cthulhu 47)
  • "The Volume Out of Print" by Jim Cort (Crypt of Cthulhu 52)
  • "Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods" by Lin Carter (Crypt of Cthulhu 54)
  • "The Cthulhuers" by John Strysik (Crypt of Cthulhu 18)
  • "Lovecraft as I Seem to Remember Him" by Robert M. Price (as F. Gumby Kalem) (Crypt of Cthulhu 14)
  • "Lovecraft’s Letters to Santa Claus: An Introduction" by Robert M. Price (Crypt of Cthulhu 46)
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