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Re: Your Favorite Cthulhu Mythos Story

And how could I have forgotten dear Kenneth Grant?
Nightside of Eden. Non Lovecraft, Mythos Non Fiction.
Dig it.

Re: Your Favorite Cthulhu Mythos Story

I have several favorites. "The Hounds of Tindalos". Klein's "Black Man w/ A Horn". Stan Sargent's "Black Brat of Dunwich". W. B. Spencer's Resume With Monsters.

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I used to see CTHULHU SEX in our Borders book store, but haven't seen it there for a couple years at least. I used to try and think of some nasty Cthulhu idea to write for yem, but never found enough interest. The only time I was tempted to write Cthulhu porn was when I was working on the story for John Pelan's THE CHILDREN OF CTHULHU, cos I knew that John liked the sleazy stuff, and so I was gonna have some Deep Ones sodomy -- but then John told us that Del Rey wanted to sell the book to a young Mythos audience and so we couldn't have anything too extreme.

As far as I know, Robert M. Price's TINDALOS CYCLE is still being planned by either Chaosium or Hippocampus, and it will include all of Frank Belknap Long's Mythos fiction, including HORROR FROM THE HILLS, as well as stories by others that touch on Belknap's Mythos inventions. I recently re-read TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS (the newer edition edited by Jim Turner) and Belknap's two stories therein still entertain me. S. T. Joshi likes to rant about whut an awful story "The Space-Eaters" is, but I've always loved it. I think dear S. T. hates the use of the Christian symbol at the end of the tale -- but it's interesting that Belknap used the cross to ward of Cosmic Terror before Lovecraft used the exact same symbol in "The Dreams in the Witch House."

Too bad that H. P. LOVECRAFT'S MAGAZINE OF HORROR gave up ye ghost and closed. It was nice to have one pro magazine in which, every issue, one could find a new Mythos tale. I cannot really understand why the magazine fail'd, as there are so many Mythos fans out there, so many Lovecraftians, that I would have thought a prozine dedicated to such fiction would have a readership. I don't think the publisher was behind the magazine after the first two issues, and their erratic publication schedule didn't help. Too bad, as Marvin Kaye is one of my favourite weird fiction editors.

Hippocampus is doing Bob's Tindalos Cycle book. Contents below --

Introduction: Chock Full o' Mutts
The Maker of Moons, Robert W. Chambers
The Death of Halpin Frayser, Ambrose Bierce
The Space-Eaters, Frank Belknap Long
he Hounds of Tindalos, Frank Belknap Long
The Letters of Halpin Chalmers, Peter Cannon
The Death of Halpin Chalmers, Perry M. Grayson
The Madness out of Time, Lin Carter
The Hound of the Partridgevilles, Peter Cannon
Through Outrageous Angles, David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ronald McDowell
Firebrands of Torment, Michael Cisco
The20Shore of Madness, Ann K. Schwader
Gateway To Forever, Frank Belknap Long
The Gift of Lycanthropy, Frank Belknap Long
The War Among the Gods, Adrian Cole
he Ways of Chaos, Ramsey Campbell
Juggernaut, C. J. Henderson
Scarlet Obeisance, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
The Horror from the Hills, Frank Belknap Long
Pompelo's Doom, Ann K. Schwader
Confession of the White Acolyte, Ann K. Schwader
When Chaugnar Wakes, Frank Belknap Long
The Elephant God of Leng, Robert M. Price
Death Is an Elephant, Robert Bloch
The Dweller in the Pot (OR, THE PASTA OUT OF SPACE EATERS) By Frank Chimesleep Short, Robert M. Price
But It's A Long Dark Road, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Nyarlatophis, A Fable of Ancient Egypt, Stanley C. Sargent
Mind-Pilot, William Laughlin

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I've been waiting for The Tindalos Cycle for many, many years. I look forward to it. I hope I still have something called money when it finally comes out. :eek:

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I've been waiting for The Tindalos Cycle for many, many years. I look forward to it. I hope I still have something called money when it finally comes out. :eek:

And Hippocampus will also be doing Bob's "Exham Priory" cycle as well . . . As to money, none of us have any left

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I've been waiting for The Tindalos Cycle for many, many years. I look forward to it. I hope I still have something called money when it finally comes out. :eek:

I think if you're broke when the book is releas'd I have a nameless feeling that ye eldritch Cthulhu Fairy may be persuaded to grant you a copy, have no fear. She does not like her children to go without. I really want the Centipede Press Belknap edition, but if it's one of his $395 books -- hmm.....

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I've been waiting for The Tindalos Cycle for many, many years. I look forward to it. I hope I still have something called money when it finally comes out. :eek:

Thanks, Wilum, but I haven't quite resorted to knocking over banks... yet. It's perhaps a good thing that I've read my share of crime fiction, though.

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Thanks, Wilum, but I haven't quite resorted to knocking over banks... yet. It's perhaps a good thing that I've read my share of crime fiction, though.

I had a boyfriend who did time in federal prison for five counts of bank robbery, but they let him out after only two years for good behavior. I wonder how Boy George is coping with prison. I think I could survive it as long as I had an edition of Shakespeare as my bedfellow.

Bob Price had so many of those Cycle books planned. I remember him asking if he could reprint an old tale of mine for THE YITH CYCLE (the story was so awful I declined), and I know there was supposed to be a YIG CYCLE. My favourite is THE NYARLATHOTEP CYCLE, yet it isn't very popular with some Cthulhu folk. The books are a fascinating blend of the old and new, and some of the fiction is definately what Bob would term "the Fan Mythos." THE DUNWICH CYCLE was the first book in which I was on the same contents page as HPL, and that was groovy. Hippocampus is publishing more and more Mythos collections and anthologies, ironically since S. T. is working so closely with Derrick. S. T. assures me that books of Mythos fiction sell quite well, so I think we have many more to look forward to. I'm dipping into LAIR OF THE DREAMER by Franklyn Searight; it's quite enjoyable, & it's Robert Knox cover is really weird-eldritch.

I was sad to see the demise of H. P. LOVECRAFT'S MAGAZINE OF HORROR, especially as Marvin Kaye is one of my favourite genre editors. It was delightful to have a weird zine with HPL's name in the title. But they weren't sure of its direction. Their idea of publishing something by Lovecraft in every issue was soon discarded, wisely so I thought. I enjoy'd knowing there was one professional magazine that wou'd have a new Mythos tale in each and every issue. I don't think the creator/publisher was really behind the zine, and it's erratic schedule killed it more than anything. Too bad.

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"The Hounds of Tindalos" is certainly one of my personal favourites (even if I have always thought it would have worked a little better placed in a more modern setting).

Perhaps not strictly Mythos, but "Final Draft" by David Annandale (Dead But Dreaming, edited by Ross & Herber) is a marvelous tale too; it's mix of the Lovecraftian and Escher-ish atmosphere really cathing my breath.

The complete oeuvre of Mr. Pugmire is worth its essential saltes too!;)

Last, but not least, I must say that a story like "One Thousand and One Words" by Paul S. Kemp in my own recently published anthology ELDRITCH HORRORS: DARK TALES (hplmythos.com Vol. 1) to me is an efficient Mythos tale; one of those that both stays true to the "rules" of the sub-genre and still shows the author's own tone of voice and style.

(Sorry if the last paragraph sounds like a shameless plug; that's not the intention.)

Re: Your Favorite Cthulhu Mythos Story

Not many candidates beyond Lovecraft. My favourites would be Lovecraft's 'The Whisperer in Darkness' and 'The Shadow out of Time', Bloch's 'Notebook Found in a Deserted House', Klein's 'Black Man With a Horn', Campbell's 'The Voice of the Beach' and Wagner's 'Sticks' (if the last counts). Always liked Bloch's novel STRANGE EONS as well.

Long's 'The Hounds of Tindalos' is also very good, though the journal entry won the Alonzo Typer Award for Least Plausible Last Written Words.