num_pages: 312
description: Noted Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi has authored a criticism of Lovecraftian and Cthulhu Mythos fiction beginning with the stories by H.P. Lovecraft that gave birth to the entities locales books and other plot devices that have come to be known as the Cthulhu Mythos. Joshi further details the works of August Derleth Frank Belknap Long Clark Ashton Smith Robert E. Howard Donald Wandrei Robert Bloch Fritz Leiber and other. Joshi then expounds upon the Derleth Mythos and its influence on subsequent Lovecraftian fiction. Joshi then explores a new generations of Mythos writers and their respective expansion of the Cthulhu Mythos including Richard L. Tierney Gary Myers Brian Lumley Ramsey Campbell Michael Shea Walter C. DeBill Jr. and others. Finally Joshi reviews some of the more modern authors who have taken up the Lovecraftian Jeffrey Thomas Stanley C. Sargent Wilum H. Pugmire Thomas Ligotti Joseph C. Pulver and many others.
language: English
title: The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos
publisher: Mythos Books LLC