Will Murray

William Patrick Murray (born April 28, 1953), who publishes as Will Murray, is a fiction writer and a historian of popular culture, with a specialization in pulp fiction and comic books. His Cthulhu Mythos-related fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Miskatonic University, The Cthulhu Cycle, Disciples of Cthulhu II, Cthulhu's Reign, Worlds of Cthulhu, The Yig Cycle, and The Mountains of Madness. His Mythos fiction has been collected in The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu, volumes one and two.
Murray has written extensively for Marvel Comics; with Steve Ditko, he is the co-creator of the character Squirrel Girl. 
He has edited two collections of stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Tales of Zothique and The Book of Hyperborea, for Necronomicon Press.
Murray was also a member of the Providence Pals, an informal group of H. P. Lovecraft enthusiasts and scholars active from the late 1970s through to the 1990s.
Along with S. T. Joshi and Jon L. Cooke, Murray founded The Friends of H. P. Lovecraft to raise funds for a memorial plaque at Brown University's John Hay Library to mark the centennial of Lovecraft's birth, in August 1990.
Since 1979, he has been the literary executor for Lester Dent, the creator of Doc Savage.
== Selected Bibliography ==
=== Short Fiction ===
* "Herbert West—Reanimated" (1989, round-robin)
* "To Clear the Earth" (1994)
*"Black Fire" (1995)
*"Rude Awakening" (1995)
*"The Sothis Radiant" (1996)
*"The Shadow Over Uxmal" (1997)
*"The Eldridge Collection" (2003)
*"The Cow-Men of Coburn" (2004)
*"The Purple Emperor" (2006)
*"What Brings the Void" (2010)
*"The Hour of Our Triumph" (2011)
*"The Hindmarsh Abomination" (2011)
* "Evacuation Day" (2012)
*"The Arcade" (2012)
*"Dark Redeemer" (2015)
*"Static" (2015)
*"A Trillion Young" (2017)
*"God General Nakji" (2021)
*"In the Lightless Chambers of Hellish N'gah-Kthun" (2022)
*"Moonday" (2022)
*"The Wild Ones of Weirport" (2022)
=== Nonfiction ===
* "Was There a Real Brown Jenkin?" (1982)
* "Captain Future vs. The Old Ones" (1983)
* "The Feathered Serpent Motif" (1983)
* "Did Lovecraft Revise 'Doom Around the Corner'?" (1983)
* "The Chesuncook Witch-Cult" (1983)
* "Lovecraft's Ghouls" (1983)
* "Tentacles in Dreamland: Cthulhu Mythos Elements in the Dunsanian Stories" (1983)
* "Mysteries of the Hoggar Region" (1983)
* "Self-Parody in Lovecraft's Revisions" (1983)
* "Mearle Prout and 'The House of the Worm'" (1983)
* "On the Natures of Nug and Yeb" (1984)
* "The Dunwich Chimera and Others: Correlating the Cthulhu Mythos" (1984)
* "Illuminating 'The Elder Pharos'" (1984)
* "The First Cthulhu Mythos Poem" (1984)
* "Prehuman Language in Lovecraft" (1984)
* "A Walking Tour of Pickman's Boston" (1984)
* "The Clark Ashton Smythos" (1984)
* "The Price-Smith Collaborations" (1984)
* "A Note on 'Cool Air'" (1984)
* "Fun Guys from Yuggoth: In Pickman's Footsteps" (1984)
* "Sources for "The Colour Out of Space" (1984)
* "The Terrible Old Cat" (1984)
* "Dagon in Puritan Massachusetts" (1985)
* "Lovecraft in the Comics" (1985)
* "The Trouble with Shoggoths" (1985) 
* "Narrathoth, the Forgotten" (1985)
* "An Uncompromising Look at the Cthulhu Mythos" (1986)
* "In Search of Arkham Country" (1986)
* "Do Shoggoths Lurk in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward?" (1986)
* "Fun Guys from Yuggoth: Lovecraft the Man, Lovecraft the Fan" (1986)
* "Spawn of the Moon-Bog" (1986)
* "The Little Tow-Head Fiend; Or, The Problem of Herbert West" (1986)
* "A Probable Source for the Drinking Song from 'The Tomb'" (1987)
* "Clark Ashton Smith's Lost Sonnet" (1987)
* "Lovecraft on Radio and Record" (1987)
* "Review of 'The H. P. Lovecraft 1987 Calendar' by S. T. Joshi" (1987)
* "Roots of the Miskatonic" (1987)
* "Imaginative Allusions in Lovecraft's Letters" (1987)
* "The Man Who Edited Lovecraft" (1987)
* "Did Lovecraft Revise 'The Curse of Alabad and Ghinu and Aratza'?" (1987)
* "On "Azathoth" (1988)
* "Where Was the Place of Dagon?" (1988)
* "Who the Hell Was Winfield Scott Phillips?" (1988)
* "Lin Carter: 1930-1988" (1988)
* "Did Lovecraft Revise 'The Forbidden Room'?" (1988)
* "I Found Innsmouth!" (1988)
* "In Search of Arkham Country Revisited" (1989)
* "I Saw The Whisperer in Darkness" (1989)
* "Lovecraft and Strange Tales" (1990)
* "Who the Heck Was Moses Brown Jenkins?" (1990)
* "More Lovecraft in the Comics" (1990)
* "Lovecraft the Pulp Writer" (1990)
* "Julius Schwartz on Lovecraft" (1990)
* "Behind the Mask of Nyarlathotep" (1991)
* "The Call of Khalk'ru and Other Speculations" (1991)
* "Irem Is Found" (1992)
* "Lovecraft, Blackwood, and Chambers: A Colloquium of Ghosts" (1993)
* "Autumn in Providence: Harry K. Brobst on Lovecraft" (1997)
* "Review of 'The Lovecraft Tarot' Cards" (1998)
* "The 99 Names of Cthulhu" (1998)
* "Secret of the Night Gaunts" (1999)
* "The Importance of Being Lovecraft" (2009)
* "'The Shadow out of Time' and Time-Defiance" (2009)
* "Der Mars-Zyklus von Clark Ashton Smith" [German] (2012)
* "The Art of H. P. Lovecraft" (2015)
* "Lovecraft's Lasting Legacy" (2015)
* "Die Chroniken von Averoigne" [German] (2015)
* "Deconstructing Nug and Yeb" (2017)
* "Obscure Origins of At the Mountains of Madness" (2019)
* "Clark Ashton Smith of Mars" (2019)
* "HPL—Pioneer Fan" (2022)
* "Musings on the Mythos" (2022)
==External Links==
*Will Murray at Wikipedia
*Will Murray at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
*Will Murray at Goodreads
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