Price, Robert M
Entry updated 7 March 2024. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1954- ) US author and editor long associated with the Cthulhu Mythos. He edited the magazine Crypt of Cthulhu from 1981 to 2022 and began to publish his own Mythos fiction with "The Derleth Horror" in Crypt of Cthulhu #6 dated St John's Eve 1982. He was also editor of many Mythos-related Anthologies beginning with Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos (anth 1992); most of these, beginning with The Hastur Cycle (anth 1993), were compiled for the games company Chaosium, publishers of Call of Cthulhu (which see). He has also edited various Retro-Pulp (which also see) magazines including Astro Adventures (8 issues January 1987-June 1989) and the 2003 revival of Strange Tales. His first story collection was the very substantial Blasphemies & Revelations (coll 2008).
Price's four nonfiction titles from Starmont House comprise two collections of his own essays from Crypt of Cthulhu [see Checklist below], plus studies of H P Lovecraft and Lin Carter: H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (1990) and Lin Carter: A Look Behind His Imaginary Worlds (1991). The much later The Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind (2007) is a sceptical examination of the shaky scriptural underpinnings of apocalyptic fiction dealing with the "Rapture", in particular the Left Behind sequence by Tim LaHaye (whom see) and Jerry B Jenkins. [DRL]
Robert McNair Price
born Jackson, Mississippi: 7 July 1954
works (selected)
series
Thongor
- Young Thongor (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2012) with Lin Carter [coll: Thongor: pb/James Heffron]
- Thongor Conquers the Underground World (Vancleave, Mississippi: Ramble House, 2023) with Lin Carter [Thongor: pb/Bebeto Daroz]
collections and stories
- Blasphemies & Revelations (Poplar Bluff, Missouri: Mythos Books, 2008) [coll: pb/Daryl Hutchison]
- Temple of the Black One: An Homage to Robert E. Howard's Conan (place not known: Mindvendor, 2017) [novelette: chap: pb/Regis Moulun]
- The Selma Horror and Others (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, 2019) [coll: chap: illus/pb/Robert H Knox]
- Horrors & Heresies (place not known: Mindvendor, 2020) [coll: pb/]
works as editor
series
- Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6 (no place given: Pulp Hero Press, 2020) [anth: Flashing Swords: pb/]
- Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6 (Sweden: Aleph Bokförlag/Timaios Press: 2021) [anth: with different contents from the above, several authors having withdrawn their stories owing to Price's politically charged introduction: Flashing Swords: pb/Regis Moulun]
- Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #7 (Vancleave, Mississippi: Ramble House, 2023) [anth: Flashing Swords: pb/Regis Moulun]
Cthulhu Mythos
- Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan and Bremer, 1992) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: hb/Gahan Wilson]
- The Hastur Cycle: 13 Tales that Created and Define Dread Hastur, the King in Yellow, Nighted Yuggoth, and Dire Carcosa (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1993) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Dreyfus]
- The Hastur Cycle: Second Revised Edition (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1997) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Call of Cthulhu Fiction series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/H E Fassl]
- The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1994) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Dreyfus]
- The Azathoth Cycle: Tales of the Blind Idiot God (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1995) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Dreyfus]
- The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1995) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/H E Fassl]
- The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1996) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Harry Fassl]
- The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1996) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Harry Fassl]
- The New Lovecraft Circle (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan and Bremer, 1996) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: hb/Gahan Wilson]
- The Nyarlathotep Cycle: The God of a Thousand Forms (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1997) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/H E Fassl]
- The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones in Thirteen Tales and Three Poems (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1998) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/H E Fassl]
- The Antarktos Cycle: Horror and Wonder at the Ends of the Earth (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1999) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Call of Cthulhu Fiction series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/John Snyder]
- The Book of Eibon (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1999) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Harry Fassl]
- The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-Walker of the Icy Wastes (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1999) [anth: dated 1998 but 1999: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Cthulhu Cycle series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/H E Fassl]
- Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1999) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Call of Cthulhu Fiction series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/H E Fassl]
- Acolytes of Cthulhu (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan and Bremer, 2001) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: hb/Gahan Wilson]
- The Tsathoggua Cycle: Terror Tales of the Toad God (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 2005) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Call of Cthulhu Fiction series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Mark Achilles White]
- Tales Out of Dunwich (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2005) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: hb/Philip Fuller]
- The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 2010) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: in the publisher's Call of Cthulhu Fiction series: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Steven Gilberts]
- Worlds of Cthulhu (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan and Bremer, 2012) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: hb/Gahan Wilson]
- Beyond the Mountains of Madness (Middlesborough, North Yorkshire: Celaeno Press, 2018) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: hb/Stephen Gilberts]
- The Yig Cycle (Vancleave, Mississippi: Ramble House, 2021) [anth: ebook: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: na/Jason Eckhardt]
- Secret Asia's Blackest Heart (Sweden: Aleph Bokförlag/Timaios Press: 2021) [anth: Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Nicolas Krizan]
individual titles as editor
- The Mighty Warriors (place not known: Ulthar Press, 2018) [anth: pb/Bruce Timm]
single-author collections as editor
The Carter and Kuttner titles all contain material by others.
- Robert Bloch. Mysteries of the Worm: Early Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1993) [coll: exp rev vt of Mysteries of the Worm: All the Cthulhu Mythos Stories of Robert Bloch (coll 1981) with 3 added stories: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/]
- Robert Bloch. Mysteries of the Worm: Early Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 2009) [coll: exp of the above with a further 4 added stories: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/]
- Henry Kuttner. Book of Iod (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1995) [coll/anth: contains some material by Price and by Lin Carter: pb/Earl Geier]
- Lin Carter. The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter (Oakland, California: Chaosium, 1997) [coll/anth: Cthulhu Mythos: pb/Harry Fassl]
- Lin Carter. Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle (Middlesborough, North Yorkshire: Celaeno Press, 2018) [coll/anth: hb/Stephen Hickman]
nonfiction
- The Horror of It All: Encrusted Gems from the "Crypt of Cthulhu" (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont Books, 1990) [nonfiction: coll: in the publisher's Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism series: pb/]
- H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont Books, 1990) [nonfiction: H P Lovecraft: in the publisher's Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism series: pb/]
- Lin Carter: A Look Behind His Imaginary Worlds (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont Books, 1991) [nonfiction: Lin Carter: in the publisher's Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism series: pb/Bruce Timm]
- Black Forbidden Things: Cryptical Secrets from the "Crypt of Cthulhu" (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont Books, 1992) [nonfiction: coll: in the publisher's Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism series: pb/Bruce Timm]
- The Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007) [nonfiction: Tim LaHaye: pb/Brand X Pictures]
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