Crypt of Cthulhu

Crypt of Cthulhu was a fanzine devoted to the writings of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. It was published as part of the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association for a short time, and was formally established in 1981 by Robert M. Price, who edited it throughout its subsequent run.
Described by its editor as "a bizarre miscegenation; half Lovecraft Studies rip-off, half humor magazine, a 'pulp thriller and theological journal,'"The Hyde Side Biography Robert M. Price it was a great deal more than that. Lovecraft scholarship was always a mainstay, with articles contributed by Steve Behrends, Edward P. Berglund, Peter Cannon, Stefan Dziemianowicz, S. T. Joshi, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Dirk W. Mosig, Will Murray, Darrell Schweitzer, Colin Wilson and Price himself. 
The magazine published stories and poems, too: resurrected, newly discovered, or in a few cases newly written, by Lovecraft and other such Weird Tales veterans as R. H. Barlow, Robert Bloch, Hugh B. Cave, August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, Henry Kuttner, Frank Belknap Long, E. Hoffmann Price, Duane W. Rimel, Richard F. Searight, Clark Ashton Smith, and Wilfred Blanch Talman. It also had stories and poems by newer writers paying tribute to the old, including Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, John Glasby, C. J. Henderson, T. E. D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Brian Lumley, Gary Myers, and Richard L. Tierney. Several issues were devoted to showcasing one or another of such authors. 
Its contents were illustrated by such artists of the fantastic as Thomas Brown, Jason C. Eckhardt, Stephen E. Fabian, D. L. Hutchinson, Robert H. Knox, Allen Koszowski, Gavin O'Keefe, and Gahan Wilson. Its reviews covered genre books, films and games.
== Publication History ==
The magazine's initial run encompassed 108 issues over a span of 20 years. The first 75 issues (dated Hallowmas 1981 through Michaelmas 1990), were published by Price under his own Cryptic Publications imprint. The next 26 issues, dated Hallowmas 1990 through Eastertide 1999 and numbered 76 through 101, were published by Necronomicon Press. The next seven issues, dated Lammas 1999 through Eastertide 2001 and numbered 102 through 108, were published by Mythos Books. 
From 2001 through 2017, the magazine was inactive; it returned from 2017 to 2019 with Price once returning to the helm, and Necronomicon Press again the publisher. This incarnation ran from issue 108 (dated Hallowmas 2017) to #113 (Lammas 2019). 
In 2022, Price restarted the publication under the aegis of a resurrected Cryptic Publications, starting with #114 (St John's Eve 2022).
== Collections ==
Material from Crypt of Cthulhu has been republished in two general collections, The Horror of It All (1990) and Black Forbidden Things (1992), and in a collection of Price's essays, H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (1990).
==External links==
*Crypt of Cthulhu website, archive
*Crypt of Cthulhu at HPLovecraft.com
*Crypt of Cthulhu at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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==References==
Category:Robert M. Price works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Fanzines