John Pelan

John C. Pelan (19 July 1957 - 12 April 2021 John Pelan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database) was an American author, editor, scholar/critic, and small-press publisher who had a hand in numerous works of Lovecraftian and Cthulhu Mythos fiction over the course of a career which spanned over 40 years, both on his own and in collaboration with others.
Pelan's first novel, The Colour Out of Darkness (1998, Sideshow Press), was heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft's 1927 short story "The Colour Out of Space". His editorial credits include the anthologies The Children of Cthulhu, Shadows Over Baker Street (2002 and 2003 respectively, Del Ray/Ballantine), and The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique (1999, Shadowlands Press), as well as collections by Fritz Leiber, Michael Shea, and James P. Blaylock, while his fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Black Wings IV (2015, PS Publishing) and Robert M. Price's long-running fanzine Crypt of Cthulhu.
==Selected Bibliography ==
===Editor===
*The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique (1999)
*The Children of Cthulhu (2002, with Benjamin Adams)
*Shadows Over Baker Street (2003, with Michael Reaves)
===Author===
====Novels====
*The Colour Out of Darkness (1998)
====Short Fiction====
*"That's the Story of My Life" (2002, with Benjamin Adams)
*"The Mystery of the Worm" (2003)
*"Contact" (2015, with Stephen Mark Rainey)
==External Links==
*John Pelan at Wikipedia
*John Pelan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
*John Pelan at Goodreads
==References==
Category:Editors
Category:Scholars
Category:Critics
Category:Deceased (Real World)
Category:Mythos-Inspired Authors