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Cannot find ye book, but there are volumes in ye series that I know I have but cannot locate. Last year I moved in with me mum, who fell & broke her hip & is nigh 81 and simply cannot be alone; and I lost a lot of bookshelf. So my library is in a state of utter chaos. If I cannot find BNH 19 I'll go to University Bookstore, which usually has copies of all latter volumes. I absolutely love the series, because it makes available yarns from many sources that are unavailable, and the editor has super taste.

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Now that you mention it, I recall your telling me that. Perhaps I'd already submitted the story to Crypt by the time I received your spelling advice. In those pre-computer (for me) days, you and Chambers were my only spell checks. :o

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A pity it was only a short story. Very very funny.

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Thanks for posting "The Princess of the Black Asteroid." That was hilarious. I especially liked the "more romance" editorial advice. I actually think there is a Cthulhu Sex Magazine out there somewhere. I'm not kidding.
Just last night I was reading through some old Dagon magazines. I was looking for Dave Carson's great illustration for Black Man with a Horn. And I had some fun reading the old letters pages. Letters from Des, Pet, Mark Samuels, Ramsey Campbell, etc.

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Wilum

Please don't go to such trouble on my behalf. Since you kindly offered to critique it, please give me your email address and I will send it over as a Word document for research purposes.

Mark S.

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Due to its success above, maybe 'Princess of the Black Asteroid' by Petal Jeffery in Crypt of Cthulhu 1994 will become a strong contender for the all-time favourite non-HPL Cthulhu Mythos story!? :)

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Perhaps someone will reprint 'Princess of the Black Asteroid' incorporating Des' 'Cutesies' spelling correction and updating 'video' to 'DVD' or even 'Blue Ray'.

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Would there be any possibility of posting Pet's marvellous Lovecraft tale "The Kindly Elder" here? I'd dearly love to read that one again...

Mark S.

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Thank you very much for those kind words, Mark.

It was first published in the very rare first issue of Garrie Hall's Tales After Dark (only about 65 copies printed, I think) and reprinted in Crypt of Cthulhu 85. If Des has either (or both) of those, perhaps he could scan the story and post it here. I think that he may have bought Tales After Dark issue 1-- and I may well have sent him my second copy of Crypt 85. Robert Price used to send two copies to Crypt contributors.

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I'd be pleased to scan it (as I did with the Asteroid story but then I knew exactly where it was!).

I'd need to look for those two mags, assuming I've (still?) got them... I certainly recall having the 'Tales After Dark 1' so should still have it...
I'm out this evening and most of tomorrow daytime and would possibly need daylight for at least part of the search, so won't be able to start looking till Friday at the earliest. Lurking things permitting and other denizens of Kadath...
If, in the meantime, someone else here has got a copy of the story and can scan it before I do (if I can)....

I remember it being relatively short(?).
des