Crypt of Cthulhu/Issues 26-50

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==Issue 26==
Crypt of Cthulhu #26 was published in November 1984. It had 52 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Clark Ashton Smith analysis".
Contents
* Cover Art (“The Mother of Toads”) by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* Clark Ashton Smith and his World of Fantasy by Jean Marigny; translated by S. T. Joshi [essay] (3–8)
* The Last Hieroglyphs: Smith’s Lost or Unpublished Fiction by Steve Behrends [essay] (9–12)
* The Clark Ashton Smythos by Will Murray [essay] (13–15)
* An Annotated Chronology of Smith’s Fiction by Steve Behrends [essay] (17–23)
* The Feaster from the Stars by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter [fiction] (25–29)
* CAS & Divers Hands: Ideas of Lovecraft and Others in Smith’s Fiction by Steve Behrends [essay] (30–31)
* The Price-Smith Collaborations by Will Murray [essay] (32–34)
* The History of Averoigne? by Glenn Rahman [essay] (35–41)
* Interior Art by Robert M. Price [illustration] (41)
* Susran by Lin Carter [poetry] (42–43)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn by Donna Death (Donna Tod) [fiction] (45)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (46–47)
** The Night of the Ripper (Doubleday, 1984) by Robert Bloch; reviewed by Marc A. Cerasini (46–47)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (48–52, 23)
** Letter by Frank Belknap Long (48)
** Letter by Brian Lumley (48)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (48)
** Letter by Carl Budka (48)
** Letter by Allen Koszowski (48)
** Letter by Dan Gobbett (48)
** Letter by Steve Behrends (49)
** Letter by Jeff Newman (49)
** Letter by James Ambuehl (49–50)
** Letter by David A. Kraklow (50)
** Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (50–51)
** Letter by Ben Indick (51)
** Letter by S. T. Joshi (51–52, 23)
** Letter by Peter Cannon (23)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: praises of the previous issue, Brian Lumley continuing to blast critics, suggestions for future author-centered issues, comparisons between Lovecraft and Poe, is Lovecraft's poetry good, should Lovecraft be considered a great writer, The Quest of Iranon and immaturity, possible influence of William Beckford's Vathek on the description of Nyarlathotep in the Dream-Quest.
==Issue 27==
Crypt of Cthulhu #27 was published in November 1984. It had 48 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Untold Tales by Clark Ashton Smith".
Contents
* Cover Art by R. M. Calverley [illustration] (front cover)
* Introduction by Steve Behrends [essay] (ii–iv)
* Nemesis of the Unfinished by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (1–4)
* The Dart of Rasasfa by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (5–8)
* The Brahmin’s Wisdom as by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (9–11)
* The House of Haon-Dor by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (12–14)
* In a Hashish-Dream by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (15–16)
* Slaves of the Black Pillar by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (17–19)
* The Point of the Jest by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (20–21)
* Unquiet Boundary by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (22)
* Shapes of Adamant by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (23)
* Mandor’s Enemy by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (24)
* Asharia by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (25–27)
* The Master of Destruction by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (28–31)
* Synopses: by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (32–37)
** The Ocean-World of Alioth by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (32–33)
** Vizaphmal in Ophiuchus by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (33–34)
** The Feet of Sidaiva by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (34)
** The Sorceress of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (34–36)
** Queen of the Sabbat by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (36)
** The Werewolf of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (37)
** The Hyperborean City by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (37)
** The Rebirth of the Flame by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (37)
* Notes by Steve Behrends [essay] (38–43)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 28==
Crypt of Cthulhu #28 was published in December 1984. It had 36 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Lovecraft’s Non-Mythos Horror Tales".
Contents
* Cover Art by Robert M. Price [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* Sources for “The Colour out of Space” by Will Murray [essay] (3–5)
* The Humor at Red Hook by Robert M. Price [essay] (6–8)
* Photo of Red Hook Church located by Marc A. Cerasini and Charles Hoffman; photographed by Steven Mariconda [illustration] (9)
* Abnormal Longevity in “The Picture in the House” by Darrell Schweitzer [essay] (10–12)
* Lovecraft and the Regnum Congo by S. T. Joshi [essay] (13–17)
** Simiæ magnatum deliciæ by W. H. Wesley [illustration] (15)
** Butcher’s Shop of the Anziques Anno 1598 by W. H. Wesley [illustration] (16)
* The Great Old Boys? by CAS (Clark Ashton Smith); to HPL (H. P. Lovecraft) (17)
* The Terrible Old Cat by Will Murray [essay] (18–19)
* A Note on “Cool Air” by Will Murray [essay] (20–21)
* Truth is Stranger than Lovecraft [essay] (22)
** Doc seeking to keep his dead wife on ice [essay] (22)
** Man’s Legs Shortened to Fit Coffin [essay] (22)
* The Slitherer from the Slime by Lin Carter [fiction] (23–26)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-Lorn by Donna Death (Donna Tod) [fiction] (26)
* Fun Guys from Yuggoth [essay] (27–32)
** In Pickman’s Footsteps by Will Murray [essay] (27–32)
* Interior Art by Jeff Dee [illustration] (32)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (33–34)
** Fantasy Empire “Lovecraft Special” (New Media Publishing, 1984) reviewed by Robert M. Price (33)
** The Dunwich Horror (Embassy, 1984) directed by Daniel Haller; reviewed by Robert M. Price (33–34)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (35–36)
** Letter by Karl Edward Wagner (35)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (35)
** Letter by Gahan Wilson (35–36)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (36)
** Letter by Donald R. Burleson (36)
** Letter by Duane Rimel (36)
** Letter by Hugh B. Cave (36)
** Letter by Frank Belknap Long (36)
** Letter by Carl Jacobi (36)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 29==
Crypt of Cthulhu #29 was published in February 1985. It had 52 pages. 
It was an all-fiction issue.
Contents
* Cover Art by Stephen E. Fabian [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Vault Beneath the Mosque by Lin Carter [fiction] (3–6)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (6)
* The Gods of Drinen by Gary Myers [fiction] (7–9, 36)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (9)
* The Waiting Dark by Eddy C. Bertin [fiction] (10–18)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (18)
* The Wedding of Sheila-Na-Gog by G. Arthur Rahman and Richard L. Tierney [fiction] (19–32)
* Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (27)
* Goodbye, Joe by Duane Rimel [fiction] (34–36)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (35)
* I Am Your Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (37–44)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (41)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (45, 51)
** H.P. Lovecraft: Juvenilia, 1895–1905 (Necronomicon Press, 1984) by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Robert M. Price (45)
** House of Cthulhu and Other Tales of the Primal Land (Weirdbook Press, 1984) by Brian Lumley; reviewed by Robert M. Price (51)
* Truth is Stranger Than Lovecraft contributed by Richard Zotara [essay] (47)
** ‘Demon’ Doctor Loses License contributed by Richard Zotara [essay] (47)
** Evidence of Vast Antarctic Crater Created by Meteorite Is Reported contributed by Richard Zotara [essay] (47)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (48–50)
** Letter by Ramsey Campbell (48)
** Letter by John Rectenwald (48)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (48)
** Letter by Laurence Bush (48)
** Letter by Steve Behrends (48–49)
** Letter by Fritz R. Leiber (49)
** Letter by Karl Edward Wagner (49)
** Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (49–50)
** Letter by Richard A. Zotara (50)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
Parts of the issue can be read here.
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: previous issues, especially Will Murray's articles, Red Hook, writers and research.
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 30==
Crypt of Cthulhu #30 was published in March 1985. It had 60 pages. 
Contents
* Cover Art by Chris Gross [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* Believers in Lovecraft by Ralph E. Vaughan [essay] (3–5, 28)
* [Excerpt from “The Secret World of Witchcraft”] by Brian Doyle; contributed by Jim Shoffner [essay] (5)
* The Brotherhood of Cthulhu? by Richard L. Tierney [essay] (6–7, 58)
* Lovecraft’s New York Exile: Its Influence on His Life and Writings by David E. Schultz [essay] (8–14)
* The Innmsouth Look by Bert Atsma [poetry] (15)
* Interior Art by Robert M. Price [illustration] (15)
* On the Revision of “Dreams of Yith” by Edward P. Berglund [essay] (16–17, 45)
* Charnel Knowledge by Joel Lane [essay] (18–20)
* Some Ancestors of Vathek: The “Eastern Stories” of John Hawksworth in The Adventurer, 1752–54 by Darrell Schweitzer [essay] (21–28)
* Weird Tales on Television compiled by William Fulwiler and Graeme Flanagan [essay] (29–32, 52)
* Yet More Lovecraft in the Cinema by Chester Malon [essay] (33–34)
* Lovecraft in the Comics by Will Murray [essay] (35–37)
* Lovecraft in Rock Music by John Stanton [essay] (38–39)
* Poetry by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (40–45)
** On the Achievements of a Popular Writer by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (40)
** The Members of the Men’s Club of the First Universalist Church of Providence, R.I., to Its President, About to Leave for Florida on Account of His Health by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (41)
** Theobaldian Aestivation by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (42–45)
* Mythos Trivia! [notice] (45)
* Synopses by Clark Ashton Smith by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (46–52)
** Beyond the Rose-Arbor by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (46)
** Offspring of the Grave by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (46–47)
** The Pilgrim of Eternity by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (47)
** The Transformation of Athanor by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (47)
** A Gift from the Beloved by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (47)
** Between Two Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (47)
** The Entity of the Sands by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (47)
** The Thing from the Antarctic by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (47)
** Prisoners of the Black Dimension by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (47)
** The Destination of Gideon Balcoth by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (48)
** The After-Men by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (48)
** The Embassy to Tilrath by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (48)
** The Lunar Brain by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (48)
** The Vapor from the Void by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (48)
** A “Vintage” [Jar] from Atlantis by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (48–49)
** The Cairn by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (49–50)
** The River of Mystery by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (50)
** Men of the Macrocosm by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (50)
** The Lunar Path by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (50)
** The Scarab by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (50)
** “Vulthoom” [Beach Combers of Mars] by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (50–51)
** The Demon “from” [of] Alphard by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (51)
** The Inverse Avatar by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (51)
** Hecate by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (52)
** The Dome in the Ice by Clark Ashton Smith [fiction] (53)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (53–58)
** The Dunwich Horror and Others (Arkham House, 1985) by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by Stephen Mariconda (Steven J. Mariconda) (53–55)
** “The Dead Valley” (Necronomicon Press, 1984) by Ralph Adams Cram; reviewed by Will Murray (55)
** The House of Cthulhu and Other Tales of the Primal Land (Weirdbook Press, 1984) by Brian Lumley; reviewed by Robert M. Price (55–56)
** Brian Lumley: A New Bibliography (Dark Press) by Leigh Blackmore; reviewed by Robert M. Price (55–56)
** Tales of Horror and Damnation #6, “Special Clark Ashton Smith Tribute Issue” edited by Robert Schwartz; reviewed by Robert M. Price (56)
** H.P. Lovecraft—Out for Blood (Blackstone Publications, 1984) by Richard Huber; reviewed by Robert M. Price (56–58)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (59–60)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (59)
** Letter by Alan Ziebarth (59)
** Letter by Roger G. Knuth (59)
** Letter by Don Herron (59)
** Letter by David T. Pudelwitts (60)
** Letter by Jean-Luc Buard (60)
** Letter by L. Sprague deCamp (60)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
Parts of the issue can be read here.
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: praises of previous issues, mostly Clark Ashton Smith-related, Smith's "posthumous collaborations" by Lin Carter, Smith's stories rewritten by E. Hoffmann Price, possibility of resurrecting Weird Tales, unpublished stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Sprague deCamp confirming an anecdote from his life.
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 31==
Crypt of Cthulhu #31 was published in May 1985. It had 52 pages. 
It was all-fiction issue.	
Contents
* Cover Art by Stephen E. Fabian [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Tomb of Neb by Gary Myers [fiction] (3–6)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (3)
* Discovery Time by Frank Belknap Long [fiction] (7–14)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (7)
* The Monument by Carl Jacobi [fiction] (15–19)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (15)
* Chief White Cloud by Duane Rimel [fiction] (20–24)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (20)
* Mnomquah by Lin Carter [fiction] (25–30)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (25)
* Nemesis of the Unfinished by Clark Ashton Smith and Don Carter [fiction] (31–35)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (31)
* A Monument to Clark Ashton Smith [essay] (36)
* Golnor the Ape by Robert E. Howard [fiction] (37–40)
** Interior Art by Jason Eckhardt [illustration] (37)
* Fun Guys from Yuggoth [essay] (42–43)
** Howard Lovecraft and Bobby Fischer by Peter H. Cannon [essay] (42–43)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn by Donna Death (Donna Tod) [fiction] (43)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (45)
** The Three Infernal Jokes directed by Charles Schneider; reviewed by Robert M. Price (45)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (46–52)
** Letter by Dan Gobbett (46)
** Letter by Brian Lumley (46)
** Letter by Raymond T. Funamoto (46)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (47)
** Letter by Steve Behrends (47)
** Letter by Kathy Corcoran (47)
** Letter by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. (47–50)
** Letter by Chris Beekman (50–51)
** Letter by Armando D. Marini, Jr. (51)
** Letter by Richard M. Jefts (51–52)
** Letter by Kenneth M. Humphreys (52)
** Letter by Ramsey Campbell (52)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
Parts of the issue can be read here.
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: responses to the previous issue, reviews of the stories, Lovecraft and church, Lovecraft's young years, criticism of Brian Lumley, do roleplayers take their games seriously, new Re-Animator movie, Caltiki as a Lovecraftian movie.
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 32==
Crypt of Cthulhu #32 was published in June 1985. It had 52 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "At the Mountains of Madness".
Contents
* Cover Art by Jim Garrison [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2
* An Autopsy on the Old Ones by Bert Atsma [essay] (3–7)
* Lovecraft’s Alien Civilizations: A Political Interpretation by S. T. Joshi [essay] (8–24, 31)
* Lovecraft’s POElar Adventure by Ben P. Indick [essay] (25–31)
** Interior Art by Lance Brown [illustration] (32)
* At the Mountains of Madness as a Sequel to Arthur Gordon Pym by Peter Cannon [essay] (33–34)
* The Trouble With Shoggoths by Will Murray [essay] (35–38, 41)
** Interior Art by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (41)
* Fun Guys from Yuggoth [essay] (39–41)
** Analects from the Mainstream #1: Of Lovecraft and Sam Loveman by Don Herron [essay] (39–41)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn by Donna Death (Donna Tod) [fiction] (41)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (43–45)
** Sixty Selected Poems (New Establishment Press, 1985) by Joseph Payne Brennan; reviewed by Will Murray (43)
** The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press) by Sonia H. Davis; reviewed by Robert M. Price (43–44)
** “Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir” in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ninth Series (Ace Books) by Ron Goulart; reviewed by Robert M. Price (44)
** Lovecraft Remembered (The Count Dracula Fan Club Annual) reviewed by Robert M. Price (44–45)
** Lovecraft Studies #10 (Necronomicon Press) edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Robert M. Price (45)
** Cromlech: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Criticism #1 edited by Marc A. Cerasini; reviewed by Robert M. Price (45)
** Footsteps V edited by Bill Munster; reviewed by Robert M. Price (45)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (46–52)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (46)
** Letter by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (46–47)
** Letter by Nelson Bridwell (47–48)
** Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (48–49)
** Letter by Laurence C. Bush (49)
** Letter by John Pelan (49)
** Letter by Richard M. Jefts (49–50)
** Letter by Peter H. Gilmore (50–51)
** Letter by Duane Rimel (51)
** Letter by Tani Jantsang (51–52)
** Letter by Pierre Comtois (52)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 33==
Crypt of Cthulhu #33 was published in August 1985. It had 48 pages. 
The theme of the issue was Dirk W. Mosig.
Contents
* Cover Art by David C. Smith [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Great American Throw-Away by Dirk W. Mosig [essay] (3–8)
* The Prophet from Providence by Dirk W. Mosig [essay] (9–11)
* Lovecraft: The Dissonance Factor in Imaginative Literature by Dirk W. Mosig [essay] (12–23)
* Poe, Hawthorne, and Lovecraft: Variations on a Theme of Panic by Dirk W. Mosig [essay] (24–28)
* Interior Art by Mike MacKenzie [illustration] (28)
* Mosig at Last: My Years With the Greatest of Lovecraft Scholars by S. T. Joshi [essay] (29–35, 23)
* The Man Who Was Mosig by Peter Cannon [essay] (36)
* Fra Mosigius by Donald R. Burleson [essay] (37–38)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (39–44)
** Re-Animator directed by Stuart Gordon; reviewed by Allen Koszowski (39–40)
** Lovecraft’s Book (Arkham House, 1985) by Richard A. Lupoff; reviewed by Robert M. Price (40–42)
** Cold Print (Scream Press, 1985) by Ramsey Campbell; reviewed by Peter Cannon (42–43)
** Elak of Atlantis (Gryphon Books) by Henry Kuttner; reviewed by Robert M. Price (43–44)
* Truth is Stranger Than Lovecraft contributed by Alan Ziebarth [essay] (44)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (46–48)
** Letter by Jean-Daniel Brèque (46)
** Letter by William Fulwiler (46–47)
** Letter by David Dello Monaco (47)
** Letter by Will Murray (47)
** Letter by John W. Rectenwald (47)
** Letter by Chris Beekman (47)
** Letter by David T. Pudelwitts (47–48)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: Lovecraft in comics (and comix), works of Andreas and Francois Riviere, additions and corrections to the list of Thriller episodes in the issue #30, praises of Jason Eckhardt's art, Brian Lumley and the use of Elder Gods, a mention of Necronomicon in Eaters of the Dead by Michael CrichtonThe novel that the movie The 13th Warrior was later based on.
==Issue 34==
Crypt of Cthulhu #34 was published in September 1985. It had 64 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Best of the Providence Pals".
Contents
* Cover Art (“The Recurring Doom”) by Jason C. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Recurring Doom by S. T. Joshi [fiction] (3–18)
* The Last Supper by Donald R. Burleson [fiction] (19–21)
* An Echo of Pipes by Jason Eckhardt [fiction] (22–25, 31)
* In the Dead of the Night by Marc A. Michaud [fiction] (26–31)
* Blood Atonement by Robert M. Price [fiction] (32–34)
* The Madness out of Space by Peter H. Cannon [fiction] (35–58)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (59)
** Autobiographical Memoir (Necronomicon Press) by Frank Belknap Long; reviewed by Dabney Hoskins (Peter H. Cannon) (59)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (60–64)
** Letter by L. Sprague deCamp (60)
** Letter by Ben P. Indick (60–61)
** Letter by S. T. Joshi (61)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (61–62)
** Letter by Will Murray (62)
** Letter by Eric Kramer (62)
** Letter by Rodolfo A. Ferraresi (62)
** Letter by John Betancourt (62)
** Letter by Randy Palmer (62–63)
** Letter by Michael J. Lotus (63)
** Letter by Richard A. Zotara (64)
** Letter by Michael F. Albertini (64)
** Letter by Carlos Waldraven (64)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: Murray's "Trouble with Shoggoths", the white figure at the end of Poe's Pym, reviews of the previous issues, particularly #32, mysterious split in LaVey's "Church of Satan".
==Issue 35==
Crypt of Cthulhu #35 was published in November 1985. It had 60 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "The Cthulhu Mythos".
Contents
* Cover Art by John Borkowski [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2, 11)
* H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos by Robert M. Price [essay] (3–11)
* Errata [notice] (11)
* CAS to AWD by Clark Ashton Smith (12–16)
** Letter (13 April 1937) from Clark Ashton Smith; to August W. Derleth (12–14)
** Letter (21 April 1937) from Clark Ashton Smith; to August W. Derleth (14–15)
** Letter (28 April 1937) from Clark Ashton Smith; to August W. Derleth (15–16)
* The Question of Shub-Niggurath by Rodolfo A. Ferraresi [essay] (17–18, 22)
* Narrathoth, the Forgotten by Will Murray [essay] (19–22)
* Cthulhu Cultists on TV [notice] (22)
* What was the Sussex Manuscript? by Edward P. Berglund [essay] (23–25, 27)
* Lovecraft on Eldritch Tomes by Edward P. Berglund [essay] (26–27)
* The Cthulhu Mythology by Francis T. Laney [essay] (28–34)
* The Fan Mythos by Randall D. Larson [essay] (35–51)
** A Survey of the Cthulhu Mythos in the Small Press by Randall D. Larson [essay] (35–42)
** A Listing of Cthulhu Mythos Stories Appearing in Small Press Magazines and Fanzines compiled by Randall D. Larson; with assistance from Edward P. Berglund, Loay H. Hall, and Mike Ashley [essay] (42–51)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (52–54)
** Dark Gods (Viking Press, 1985) by T. E. D. Klein; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (52)
** The New Devil’s Dictionary (W. Paul Ganley, Publisher) by J. N. Williamson; reviewed by Will Murray (52–53)
** Obsession (Macmillan, 1985) by Ramsey Campbell; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (53–54)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (56–59)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (56)
** Letter by Daniel Gobbett (56)
** Letter by Chris Gross (56)
** Letter by Kevin S. Hall (56)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (56–58)
** Letter by David F. Godwin (58)
** Letter by William Fulwiler (58–59)
** Letter by Laurence C. Bush (59)
** Letter by Darwin Ortiz (59)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (60)
==Issue 36==
Crypt of Cthulhu #36 was published in December 1985. It had 48 pages. 
The theme of the issue was Lin Carter.
Contents
* Cover Art (“Out of the Ages”) by Robert M. Price [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Doom of Yakthoob by Lin Carter [fiction] (3–4)
* The City of Pillars by Lin Carter [fiction] (5–8)
* The Acolyte of the Flame by Lin Carter [fiction] (9–13, 21)
* The Stone from Mnar by Lin Carter [fiction] (14–18)
* H.P. Lovecraft: The History by Lin Carter [essay] (19–21)
* Under the Eaves by Lin Carter [fiction] (22–23)
* High Atlantis by Lin Carter [poetry] (24)
* The Carter-Smith “Collaborations” by Steve Behrends [essay] (25–31, 39)
* A Response by Lin Carter (32–34)
* Call for Papers [notice] (34)
* Interior Art (“The Zanthu Tablets”) by Guy Cowlishaw [illustration] (35)
* An Interview with Lin Carter by Robert M. Price; interview of Lin Carter (36–39)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn by Donna Death (Donna Tod) [fiction] (40)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (41–44, 4, 8, 18, 35)
** Discovering Modern Horror Fiction 1 (Starmont, 1985) edited by Darrell Schweitzer; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (41–42)
** The Collector’s Index to Weird Tales (Bowling Green State University Popular Culture Press, 1985) by Sheldon Jaffery and Fred Cook; reviewed by Robert M. Price (42–43)
** Etchings and Odysseys #6 (The Strange Company, June 1985) reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (43–44, 4)
** The Year’s Best Horror Stories XIII (DAW Books, October 1985) edited by Karl Edward Wagner; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (4, 8, 18, 35)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (45–47)
** Letter by Jim Cort (45)
** Letter by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (45)
** Letter by Pierre Comtois (45)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (45)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (46)
** Letter by Carl Ford (46)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (46)
** Letter by Tani Jantsang (47)
** Letter by Matt Rogers (47)
** Letter by Steve Behrends (47)
** Letter by Will Murray (47)
* Interior Art by Joe Shea [illustration] (48)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 37==
Crypt of Cthulhu #37 was published in February 1986. It had 60 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Lovecraft’s Longer Fiction".
Contents
* Cover Art by Chris Gross [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Structure of Lovecraft’s Longer Narratives by S. T. Joshi [essay] (3–17)
** Interior Art by Chris Gross [illustration] (13)
* Lovecraft’s Cosmic History by Robert M. Price [essay] (18–24)
** Interior Art by Lance Brown [illustration] (20)
* H.P. Lovecraft and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by S. T. Joshi [essay] (25–34, 59)
** Interior Art by Chris Gross [illustration] (29)
* Real World Links in The Dream-Quest by Ralph E. Vaughan [essay] (35–36, 39)
* Do Shoggoths Lurk…? In The Case of Charles Dexter Ward? by Will Murray [essay] (37–39)
* The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: An Unbridled Romp with Charles Dexter Ward through the Minds of Francisco Goya and C.G. Jung by Carolyn Lee Boyd [essay] (40–45)
** Interior Art by Chris Gross [illustration] (41)
** Interior Art by Pierre D. Lacroix [illustration] (44)
** Interior Art by Darrell Schweitzer [illustration] (45)
* A Note on Nicholas Roerich by Ben P. Indick [essay] (46–48, 59)
** Interior Art (“Island of Rest”) by Nicholas Roerich [illustration] (46)
** Interior Art (“Kanchenjunga”) by Nicholas Roerich [illustration] (48)
* Further Notes on the Eltdown Shards by Edward P. Berglund [essay] (49–51, 55)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (53–55)
** At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels (Arkham House, 1985) by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by Steven Mariconda (53–54)
** Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: Spanning the Decades with Carl Jacobi (Popular Press) by R. Dixon Smith; reviewed by Daniel Gobbett (54–55)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (56–59)
** Letter by A. Beaufort (56)
** Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (56)
** Letter by Kevin A. Ross (56–57)
** Letter by Steven Mariconda (57)
** Letter by Rodolfo A. Ferraresi (57)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (57–58)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (58)
** Letter by Lin Carter (58–59)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 38==
Crypt of Cthulhu #38 was published in March 1986. It had 52 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Lovecraft’s lousier fiction".
Contents
* Cover Art by Chris Pelletiere [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* “The Hound”—a Dead Dog? by Steven Mariconda [essay] (3–7)
* Correction [notice] (7)
* “The Tomb” & “Dagon”: A Double Dissection by William Fulwiler [essay] (8–14)
* Interior Art by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (14)
* The Sources for “From Beyond” by S. T. Joshi [essay] (15–19)
* Spawn of the Moon-Bog by Will Murray [essay] (20–25, 37)
* Exploring “The Temple” by David E. Schultz [essay] (26–31)
** Interior Art by Lance Brown [illustration] (29)
* Live in Providence? Take a Course on HPL [notice] (31)
* On “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” by M. Eileen McNamara, M. D. [essay] (33–34)
* The Little Tow-Head Fiend: Or the Problem of “Herbert West” by Will Murray [essay] (35–37)
* HPL’s Style by Ralph E. Vaughan [essay] (38–39)
* Fun Guys from Yuggoth [essay] (40–41, 43)
** Lovecraft the Man, Lovecraft the Fan by Will Murray [essay] (40–41, 43)
* Three Who Died [essay] (42, 34)
** L. Ron Hubbard [essay] (42)
** Walter Gibson [essay] (42)
** Christine Campbell Thomson submitted by Richard Dalby [essay] (42, 34)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn by Donna Death (Donna Tod) [fiction] (43)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (44–48)
** H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator (Empire Pictures) directed by Stuart Gordon; reviewed by Marc A. Cerasini (44–46)
** Alcestis: A Play (The Strange Company, 1975) by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia Haft Greene-Lovecraft; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (46–47)
** Faces of Fear (Berkeley, October 1985) by Douglas Winter; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (47–48)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (49–52)
** Letter by Kevin A. Ross (49–50)
** Letter by Leslie Skingle (50)
** Letter by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (50–51)
** Letter by Thomas Owen (51)
** Letter by Jim Cort (51)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (51–52)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (52)
** Letter by Wilum Pugmire (52)
** Letter by Will Murray (52)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: suggestion to make future issues dedicated to Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap
Long, and Henry Kuttner, a new zine with Mythos fiction, notes on "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture", Lovecraft quote about ghouls, are shoggoths and custodes the same thing, where Henry Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis stories can be found, where Carter-Smith collaborations can be found, passage from the theosophist work "A Treatise On Cosmic Fire", a crossover story of Mythos and Wizard of Oz.
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 39==
Crypt of Cthulhu #39 was published in May 1986. It had 60 pages. 
It was an all-fiction issue.
Contents
* Cover Art by Peter H. Gilmore [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Madness out of Time by Lin Carter [fiction] (3–9)
** Interior Art by Lance Brown [illustration] (6)
* More Dunwich Horrors [notice] (9)
* Offspring by Carl Jacobi [fiction] (10–17)
** Interior Art (“The Evangelist”) by Robert H. Knox [illustration] (14)
* The Voice of Doom by Robert E. Howard [fiction] (18–22)
** Interior Art by Jervas Dudley (unknown) [illustration] (21)
* [The gang that made Re-Animator has further plans…] by Carl Ford [notice] (22)
* Embrace of Clay, Embrace of Straw by Steve Rasnic Tem [fiction] (23–29)
** Interior Art (“Chorus”) by Robert H. Knox [illustration] (26)
* Manly Wade Wellman [notice] (29)
* And When We Sleep by Hugh B. Cave [fiction] (30–46)
** Interior Art (“Sacrifice”) by Robert H. Knox [illustration] (44)
* In the Tomb of Semenses by Frank Belknap Long [fiction] (47–52)
** Interior Art (“Guard Duty on Yaddith”) by Robert H. Knox [illustration] (50)
* Wilfred Blanch Talman by Gerry de la Ree [essay] (54
* R’lyeh Review [review] (55, 54)
** “small-press horror and Mythos magazines” reviewed by Robert M. Price (55, 54)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (56–60, 46, 52, 29)
** Letter by Rah Hoffman (56)
** Letter by Fritz Leiber (56)
** Letter by Kevin Walsh (56)
** Letter by Jeff Lefstin (56–57)
** Letter by Carl Budka (57)
** Letter by William Fulwiler (58–59)
** Letter by Robert M. Price (59–60)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (60)
** Letter by Roger G. Knuth (46)
** Letter by Henry J. Vester III (46, 52)
** Letter by Wilum Pugmire (52, 29)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
==Issue 40==
Crypt of Cthulhu #40 was published in June 1986. It had 60 pages. 
The theme of the issue was Robert Bloch.
Contents
* Cover Art by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Sorcerer’s Jewel by Tarleton Fiske (Robert Bloch) [fiction] (3–13)
* Writer’s Bloch by Charles Garofalo [fiction] (14–16)
* Eldritch Egypt by Richard L. Tierney [poetry] (16)
* On “The Feast in the Abbey” by Randall D. Larson [essay] (17–20, 30)
* Bloch on the Box by Charles Garofalo [essay] (21–23, 47)
* The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert Bloch by Randall D. Larson [essay] (24–26)
* Interview 1 by Will Murray; interview of Robert Bloch (27–30)
* Interview 2 by Randall D. Larson; interview of Robert Bloch (31–33)
* More Mythos in Bloch by RMP (Robert M. Price) [essay] (33)
* The Hell Bound Train by Unknown [poetry] (34–35)
* The Books of Robert Bloch: A Bibliography by R. Dixon Smith [essay] (36–43)
* It Pays to Increase Your Weird Power: A Lovecraft Vocabulary Quiz by Jim Cort [puzzle] (45–47)
* From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Lin Carter [essay] (48–50)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (51–58, 30)
** New Tales of the Marvellous and the Ridiculous reviewed by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (51–57)
** Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Silver Scarab Press) by Thomas Ligotti; reviewed by Robert M. Price (57–58)
** Slow (Footsteps Press) by Ramsey Campbell; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (58)
** Tales After Dark reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (58, 30)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (59–60, 16, 33, 35)
** Letter by Allen Koszowski (59)
** Letter by Michael J. Lotus (59)
** Letter by Mark Morrison (59)
** Letter by Jim Cort (59–60)
** Letter by S. T. Joshi (60)
** Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (16, 33, 35)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 41==
Crypt of Cthulhu #41 was published in May 1986. It had 68 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Henry Kuttner’s Cthulhu Mythos fiction".
Contents
 
* Cover Art by Robert H. Knox [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2, 68)
* The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner [fiction] (3–7)
* Happy Birthday Grandpa! [notice] (7)
* The Eater of Souls by Henry Kuttner [fiction] (8–9, 21)
* The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner [fiction] (10–21)
* Want More Kuttner? [notice] (21)
* The Jest of Droom-avista by Henry Kuttner [fiction] (22–23, 55)
* The Invaders by Henry Kuttner [fiction] (24–34, 67)
* The Bells of Horror by Keith Hammond (Henry Kuttner) [fiction] (35–44)
* Yet More Dunwich Horrors [notice] (44)
* Hydra by Henry Kuttner [fiction] (45–55)
* Klarkash-Ton Remembered [notice] (55)
* The Hunt by Henry Kuttner [fiction] (57–67)
* Kuttner Horror Stories in Anthologies [essay] (68)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 42==
Crypt of Cthulhu #42 was published in September 1986. It had 68 pages. 
The theme of the issue was Frank Belknap Long.
Contents
 
* Cover Art by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2, 44)
* The Eye Above the Mantel by Frank Belknap Long [fiction] (3–6)
* The Desert Lich by Frank Belknap Long [fiction] (7–11)
* The Devil-God by Frank Belknap Long [fiction] (12–20)
* Carnival of Crawling Doom by Frank Belknap Long [fiction] (21–37)
* The Creeper in Darkness by Frank Belknap Long [fiction] (38–44)
* Three Poems by Frank Belknap Long [poetry] (45)
** Come, Let Us Make by Frank Belknap Long [poetry] (45)
** Rufus (Catullus) by Frank Belknap Long [poetry] (45)
** The Rebel by Frank Belknap Long [poetry] (45)
* The Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jr. by H. P. Lovecraft [essay] (47–50)
* Frank Belknap Long: Sojourner in Strange Worlds by Ben P. Indick [essay] (51–52)
* Frank Belknap Long: A Personal Tribute by Peter H. Cannon [essay] (53–55)
* From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Lin Carter [essay] (56–58)
* The Keeper at the Crypt by Carl T. Ford [essay] (59–60)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (61–65)
** The Hungry Moon (Macmillan, 1986) by Ramsey Campbell; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (61–62)
** Lovecraft Studies #12 (Necronomicon Press) edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Robert M. Price (62–63)
** Psycho III directed by Anthony Perkins; reviewed by Robert M. Price (63–64)
** Dark Gods (Bantam Books, 1986) by T. E. D. Klein; reviewed by Robert M. Price (64–65)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (66–68, 37, 44, 50, 58, 65)
** Letter by Edwin Pouncey (66)
** Letter by L. Sprague deCamp (66)
** Letter by Wilum Pugmire (66)
** Letter by Jim Cort (66)
** Letter by Tani Jantsang and Philip Obed Marsh (66)
** Letter by S. T. Joshi (67)
** Letter by Jack Adrian (67)
** Letter by Gahan Wilson (67)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (67–68)
** Letter by Karl Edward Wagner (68)
** Letter by Daniel Gobbett (68)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (68, 37)
** Letter by Randall D. Larson (37)
** Letter by Brian Lumley (37, 44)
** Letter by L. Sprague deCamp (44, 50)
** Letter by Wilum Pugmire (50, 58)
** Letter by Tani Jantsang (58, 65)
** Letter by Phil Marsh (65)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 43==
Crypt of Cthulhu #43 was published in November 1986. It had 76 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "The Tomb Herd and Others by Ramsey Campbell".
Contents
* Cover Art by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* The Tomb Herd by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (3–9)
* The Other Name of Azathoth [essay] (9)
* The Face in the Desert by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (10–13, 19)
* A Madness From the Vaults I by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (14–19)
* The Tower from Yuggoth by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (20–36)
* The Plain of Sound by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (37–44)
* The Return of the Witch by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (45–52)
* The Mine on Yuggoth by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (53–60)
* The Stone on the Island by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (62–69)
* A Madness From the Vaults II by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (70–75)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (76, 75)
** Letter by L. Sprague de Camp (76)
** Letter by Lin Carter (76)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (76)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (76, 75)
** Letter by Virgil Utter (75)
** Letter by Vic Ghidalia (75)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 44==
Crypt of Cthulhu #44 was published in December 1986. It had 72 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Medusa & Other Poems by H.P. Lovecraft".
Contents
* Cover Art by Jason C. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
* Introduction by S. T. Joshi [essay] (iii–iv)
* The Members of the Men’s Club of the First Universalist Church of Providence, R.I., to Its President, about to Leave for Florida on Account of His Health by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (1)
* Providence in 2000 A.D. by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (1–3)
* Ad Criticos by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (3–6)
** Liber Primus by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (3–4)
** Liber Secundus by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (4–5)
** Liber Tertius by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (5–6)
** Liber Quartus by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (6)
* Frustra Praemunitus by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (7)
* To General Villa by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (7–8)
* To the Rev. James Pyke by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (8)
* New England by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (8–9)
* The Power of Wine: A Satire by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (9–10)
* 1914 by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (11–12)
* The Crime of Crimes by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (12–13)
* The Bookstall by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (14–15)
* An American to Mother England by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (16–17)
* The Teuton’s Battle-Song by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (17–18)
* Ye Ballade of Patrick von Flynn by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (19–20)
* Content by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (20–21)
* The Beauties of Peace by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (22–23)
* Brotherhood by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (23–24)
* Britannia Victura by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (24)
* Iterum Conjunctae by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (25)
* To Greece, 1917 by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (25–26)
* Prologue to “Fragments from an Hour of Inspiration” by Jonathan E. Hoag by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (26)
* Earth and Sky by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (26–27)
* On the Death of a Rhyming Critic by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (27–28)
* Autumn by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (29–30)
* Ver Rusticum by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (30–32)
* The Link by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (32–33)
* The Spirit of Summer by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (33–34)
* Hellas by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (34)
* Ambition by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (34–35)
* Spring by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (35)
* Damon—A Monody by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (36)
* Amissa Minerva by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (36–38)
* Hylas and Myrrha: A Tale by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (38–42)
* Helene Hoffman Cole by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (42–43)
* A Cycle of Verse by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (43–44)
** Oceanus by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (43)
** Clouds by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (43–44)
** Mother Earth by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (44)
* Monody on the Late King Alcohol by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (45)
* The Pensive Swain by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (46)
* Wisdom by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (46–47)
* Bells by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (47–48)
* Cindy: Scrub Lady in a State Street Skyscraper by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (49)
* Ex-Poet’s Reply by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (49)
* October by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (49–50)
* To Alfred Galpin, Esq. by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (50–51)
* Theobaldian Aestivation by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (51–54)
* Medusa: A Portrait by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (55–56)
* To Zara by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (56–57)
* To Damon by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (57–59)
* To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., upon His Town Fables and Elegies by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (59–61)
* The Feast by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (61–63)
* Lines for Poets’ Night at the Scribblers’ Club by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (63–65)
* To an Infant by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (65–66)
* To Miss Beryl Hoyt by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (66)
* Ave atque Vale by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (67–68)
* Bouts Rimes by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (68)
** Beyond Zimbabwe by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (68)
** The White Elephant by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (68)
* The Odes of Horace: Book III, ix by H. P. Lovecraft [poetry] (69)
* Bibliography by S. T. Joshi [essay] (70–72)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 45==
Crypt of Cthulhu #45 was published in February 1987. It had 44 pages. 
This issue had no theme.
Contents
* Cover Art by Robert H. Knox [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* Digging Up Irem by Lin Carter [essay] (3–5)
* [Obituary of Robert Kenneth Jones] [notice] (5)
* Roots of the Miskatonic by Will Murray [essay] (6–9)
* The Birth of Ubbo-Sathla: Smith, Wandrei, Alfred Kramer, and the Begotten Source by Steve Behrends [essay] (10–13)
* Lovecraft on Radio & Record by Will Murray [essay] (14–18)
* Audio Fungi [notice] (18)
* The Lurking Beans: A Real-Life Martense Family by Jim Cort [essay] (19–21)
* Still More Dunwich Horrors [notice] (21)
* Anniversarium XVI by Brett Rutherford [poetry] (21)
* A Pre-Lovecraft Cthulhu Dreamer by Leon L. Gammell [essay] (23–25)
* From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Lin Carter [essay] (26–28)
* The Keeper at the Crypt by Carl T. Ford [essay] (29, 28)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (31–39)
** From Beyond directed by Stuart Gordon; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (31–32)
** From Beyond (Empire Pictures) directed by Stuart Gordon; reviewed by Charles Hoffman (32–34)
** H.P. Lovecraft: Uncollected Letters (Necronomicon Press) by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Robert M. Price (34–35)
** The H.P. Lovecraft 1987 Calendar (Necronomicon Press) by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Will Murray (35–36)
** Black Water (Clarkson N. Potter, 1983) edited by Alberto Manguel; reviewed by Lin Carter (36–37)
** Hero of Dreams (W. Paul Ganley) by Brian Lumley; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (37)
** Halloween Horrors (Doubleday, 1986) edited by Alan Ryan; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (37–39)
** Black Wine (Dark Harvest, 1986) edited by Douglas Winter; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (37–39)
** Cutting Edge (Doubleday, 1986) edited by Dennis Etchison; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (37–39)
** Night Visions 2 (Dark Harvest, 1985) edited by Charles L. Grant; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (39)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (40–44)
** Letter by Kenneth Hill (40)
** Letter by Charles Gray (40)
** Letter by H. P. Lovecraft (Robert M. Price) (40)
** Letter by Jeff Kahan (40)
** Letter by Johnson Becker (40–41)
** Letter by Will Murray (41)
** Letter by Kevin A. Ross (41–42)
** Letter by Michael J. Lotus (42–43)
** Letter by Karl Edward Wagner (43)
** Letter by Stefan Dziemianowicz (43)
** Letter by Wilum Pugmire (43)
** Letter by Frank Belknap Long (43)
** Letter by John Salonia (43)
** Letter by Karl Edward Wagner (43–44)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (44)
** Letter by Bob Dickson (44)
** Letter by Jim Cort (44)
** Letter by Shawn Ramsey (44)
** Letter by Brian Lumley (44)
** Letter by Albert M. Engström (44)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 46==
Crypt of Cthulhu #46 was published in March 1987. It had 64 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Lovecraft’s Letters".
Contents
* Cover Art by S. Thomas Brown [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* A Look at Lovecraft’s Letters by S. T. Joshi [essay] (3–12)
* Three Quotations and a Fabrication by William Fulwiler [essay] (13–14)
* Imaginative Allusions in Lovecraft’s Letters by Will Murray [essay] (15–27)
* Ethel Phillips Morrish [notice] (27)
* The First Lewis Theobald by R. Boerem [essay] (28–30)
* Lovecraft’s Letters to Vincent Starrett by H. P. Lovecraft (31–37)
** Letter (11 April 1927) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Vincent Starrett (31)
** Letter (24 June 1927) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Vincent Starrett (31–32)
** Letter (23 August 1927) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Vincent Starrett (32)
** Letter (6 December 1927) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Vincent Starrett (32–34)
** Letter (10 January 1928) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Vincent Starrett (34–37)
* Lovecraft’s Letters to Adolphe de Castro by H. P. Lovecraft (38–54)
** Letter (15 November 1925) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (38)
** Letter (14 October 1934) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (39–42)
** Letter (6 November 1934) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (42–46)
** Letter (26 January 1935) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (46–47)
** Letter (11 April 1935) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (47–48)
** Letter (26 September 1935) from H. P. Lovecraft (48–50)
** Letter (5 October 1935) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (50–52)
** Letter (14 September 1936) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (52)
** Letter (17 February 1937) from H. P. Lovecraft; to Adolphe de Castro (Gustav Adolphe Danziger) (52–54)
* Lovecraft’s Letters to Santa Claus: An Introduction by Robert M. Price [fiction] (55–56)
* Even More Dunwich Horrors [notice] (56)
* From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Lin Carter [essay] (57–59)
* Low Tide by Brett Rutherford [poetry] (61–62)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (63, 30, 37, 56, 62)
** Dagon (St. Marten’s Press, January 1987) by Fred Chappell; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (63, 30)
** Lovecraft’s Providence and Adjacent Parts (Donald M. Grant, 1986, second edition) by Henry L. P. Beckwith; reviewed by Will Murray (30, 37)
** Excavation (Avon Books, 1987) by Steve Rasnic Tem; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (37, 56, 62)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (64, 59, 12, 14)
** Letter by Mike Mason (64)
** Letter by Steve Rasnic Tem (64)
** Letter by Stefan Dziemianowicz (64)
** Letter by Dan Gobbett (64)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (64)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (64, 59)
** Letter by Tani Jantsang (59)
** Letter by Wilum Pugmire (59, 12)
** Letter by Brian Lumley (12, 14)
** Letter by Shawn Ramsey (14)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: does anyone have the round-robin story "Othuum", the origin of the name "Sarnath", why isn't Henry Kuttner published by Arkham House.
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 47==
Crypt of Cthulhu #47 was published in May 1987. It had 64 pages. 
It was an all-fiction issue.
Contents
* Cover Art by Jason C. Eckhardt [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
** Introduction by Gerry de la Ree [essay] (2)
* The Pool by Donald R. Burleson [fiction] (3–9)
* Behind the Mask by Lin Carter [fiction] (10–19)
* Soul Proprietor by Robert Bloch [fiction] (20–26)
* Curse of the Crocodile by Richard L. Tierney [fiction] (27–38)
* Stamp Out HPL! [notice] (38)
* The Mark of a Bloody Hand by Robert E. Howard [fiction] (39–43)
* The Fantasy & Mystery Bookshop by Peter H. Cannon [fiction] (44–48)
* The Keeper at the Crypt by Carl T. Ford [essay] (49)
* Ethel M. Phillips Morrish: May 15, 1888–January 17, 1987 by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. [essay] (51–52)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (54–62, 9)
** Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (Arkham House, 1986, 2nd edition) by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by David E. Schultz (54–56)
** Out of My Head (NESFA Press, 1986) by Robert Bloch; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (56–57)
** Unholy Trinity (Scream Press) by Robert Bloch; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (57–59)
** Night-World (Tor) by Robert Bloch; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (57–59)
** Robert Bloch, Starmont Reader’s Guide 37 (Starmont, 1986) by Randal D. Larson; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (59–60)
** The Complete Robert Bloch (Fandom Unlimited) by Randall Larson; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (60–61)
** “Innsmouth Gold” Revisited reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (61–62)
** Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, vol. 22 (Gale Research Company, 1987) edited by Dennis Poupard, Marie Lazzari, and Thomas Ligotti; reviewed by Robert M. Price (62)
** Dagon #18 edited by Carl T. Ford; reviewed by Carl T. Ford (62, 9)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (63–64, 26)
** Letter by Rah Hoffman (63)
** Letter by Kevin L. O’Brien (63)
** Letter by Roger G. Knuth (63)
** Letter by Thomas R. Hall III (63)
** Letter by Robert H. Daugherty (63)
** Letter by Robert Hauser (63)
** Letter by Kathy Corcoran (63–64)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (64)
** Letter by L. Sprague de Camp (64)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (64)
** Letter by Roy A. Squires (64, 26)
** Letter by Jim Cort (26)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 48==
Crypt of Cthulhu #48 was published in June 1987. It had 56 pages. 
The issue had no theme.
Contents
* Cover Art by Otto Bumberger [illustration] (front cover)
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* New Fiction Policy by Robert M. Price [essay] (2)
* The Man Who Edited Lovecraft by Will Murray [essay] (3–5)
* Special Report: Lovecraft Graveside Memorial by M. Eileen McNamara [essay] (5, 31)
* Who Killed St. John? by Peter F. Jeffery (Petal Jeffery) [essay] (6–8)
* Crypt-O-Cthulhu-Gram by Carol Price [puzzle] (8)
* The Origin of Lovecraft’s “Black Magic” Quote by David E. Schultz [essay] (9–13)
* The Unbegotten is Unforgotten by Don Herron [essay] (14, 55)
* Dreams of the Black Lotus by Lin Carter [fiction] (15–18)
* Vastarien by Thomas Ligotti [fiction] (19–27)
* From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Lin Carter [essay] (28–31)
* Crypt-O-Cthulhu-Gram Solution by Carol Price [puzzle] (31)
* Stigma by David E. Schultz [poetry] (33)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn: Letters to Libidia by Libidia (Robert M. Price) [fiction] (33)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (34–41, 51–55)
** H.P. Lovecraft: Commonplace Book (Necronomicon Press, March 1987) by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by David E. Schultz; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (34–36)
** Lovecraft Studies 14 edited by S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (34–36)
** Fat Face (The Axolotl Press, 1987) by Michael Shea; reviewed by Robert M. Price (36)
** Darkscapes: Synthesized Symphonic Nightmares (Hell’s Kitchen Productions) by Peter H. Gilmore; reviewed by Allen P. Thornton (36–37)
** HPL Audiocassettes reviewed by Robert M. Price (37)
** Ship of Dreams (Weirdbook Press, 1986) by Brian Lumley; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (37–39)
** Necroscope (Grafton, 1986) by Brian Lumley; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (37–39)
** In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Ethel M. Phillips Morrish (The Moshassuck Press) by Ken Faig, Jr.; reviewed by Robert M. Price (39)
** The Borders Just Beyond (Donald M. Grant, 1986) by Joseph Payne Brennan; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (39)
** The Chronology Out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press) by Peter Cannon; reviewed by Robert M. Price (39–40)
** Medusa (Footsteps Press, 1987) by Ramsey Campbell; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (40)
** Tom O’Bedlam’s Night Out and Other Strange Excursions (Weirdbook) by Darrell Schweitzer; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (40–41)
** Night Visions III (Dark Harvest, 1986) edited by George R. R. Martin; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (41)
** Cthulhu (Baen Books) by Robert E. Howard; reviewed by Charles Hoffman (41, 51–53)
** H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator (Pocket Books) by Jeff Rovin; reviewed by Charles Hoffman (53–55)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (42–51)
** Letter by Sandy Robertson (42)
** Letter by Sean Branney (42)
** Letter by Peter H. Gilmore (42)
** Letter by James Rockhill (42–43)
** Letter by Mike D. Mason (43)
** Letter by Carl Aschmann (44)
** Letter by Chris Beekman (44)
** Letter by Mark Rainey (44)
** Letter by Dan Gobbett (44–45)
** Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (45)
** Letter by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. (45–46)
** Letter by Peter H. Cannon (46)
** Letter by Larry Baker (46–47)
** Letter by Bob Weinberg (47)
** Letter by Richard L. Tierney (47)
** Letter by Phinas Kornegay (Robert M. Price) (47–48)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (48)
** Letter by S. T. Joshi (48–49)
** Letter by Michael Lotus (49)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (50)
** Letter by Karl Edward Wagner (50)
** Letter by Stefan Dziemianowicz (50–51)
** Letter by Ramsey Campbell (51)
** Letter by Hugh B. Cave (51)
** Letter by Morgan Holmes (51)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 49==
Crypt of Cthulhu #49 was published in August 1987. It had 68 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Lovecraft’s literary influences".
Contents
* Cover Art by Lance Brown [illustration] (front cover
* Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial] (2)
* Thematic Links in Arthur Gordon Pym, At the Mountains of Madness, and Moby Dick by Marc A. Cerasini [essay] (3–20)
** Interior Art by Gavin O’Keefe [illustration] (10)
* Interior Art by L. L. McAdams [illustration] (20)
* Call Me Wizard Whateley: Echoes of Moby Dick in “The Dunwich Horror” by Peter H. Cannon [essay] (21–23)
** Interior Art by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (22)
* More and More Dunwich Horrors [notice] (23)
* The Blind Idiot God: Miltonic Echoes in the Cthulhu Mythos by Thomas Quale [essay] (24–28)
* The Migration of Birds by Frank Belknap Long [essay] (28, 47)
* Postcard to Charles D. Hornig by H. P. Lovecraft (29)
* Commentary by S. T. Joshi [essay] (29–30)
* “The Pool”: Recommendations for Revision—Synopsis by H. P. Lovecraft (31–40)
* Aporia and Paradox in “The Outsider by Donald R. Burleson, Ph. D. [essay] (41–43)
** Interior Art by Gavin O’Keefe [illustration] (42)
* At the Home of Poe by Frank Belknap Long [essay] (43)
* Edgar and Helen: An Imaginary Romance by Brett Rutherford [poetry] (46–47)
* From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Lin Carter [essay] (48–50)
* The Keeper at the Crypt by Carl T. Ford [essay] (51–52)
* Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn by Libidia Gillman (Robert M. Price) [fiction] (54)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (56–58)
** Through Time and Space with Lefty Feep (Creatures at Large) by Robert Bloch; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (56–57)
** Midnight Pleasures (Doubleday) by Robert Bloch; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (56–57)
** Bates Motel (NBC TV-movie) written and directed by Richard Rothstein; reviewed by Robert M. Price (57–58)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (59–68, 54)
** Letter by John Pelan (59)
** Letter by Shawn Ramsey (59)
** Letter by James Rockhill (59)
** Letter by Robert N. Bloch (59–60)
** Letter by Scott Briggs (60)
** Letter by Henry J. Vester III (60)
** Letter by L. Sprague de Camp (60)
** Letter by David E. Schultz (61)
** Letter by Phinas Kornegay (Robert M. Price) (61–62)
** Letter by Joseph Curwen (Darrell Schweitzer) (62)
** Letter by Shawn Small (62)
** Letter by Wilum Pugmire (62–63)
** Letter by Darrell Schweitzer (63)
** Letter by Kevin A. Ross (63–64)
** Letter by David F. Godwin (64–65)
** Letter by Charles Garofalo (65)
** Letter by Peter F. Jeffery (Petal Jeffery) (65–66)
** Letter by Darwin Chismar (66)
** Letter by Stefan Dziemianowicz (66)
** Letter by Kalju Kirde (67)
** Letter by Michael J. Lotus (67)
** Letter by R. E. Briney (67–68)
** Letter by James Rockhill (68, 54)
** Letter by Thomas R. Hall III (54)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: suggestions of writers to dedicate future issues to, correction of Lin Carter's review of Alberto Manguel's Black Water, Lin Carter's Adult Fantasy Series, reply to Stefan Dziemianowicz's "Innsmouth Gold Revisited", what makes a Mythos story good, queen Thomyris and Massagetai, origins of Irem, corrections of Lovecraft's texts, thoughts on the From Beyond movie, comments on the "passage from the Necronomicon" in the issue #48, the "Black Magic" quote, interpretations of The Hound, origin's of Dagon's name, Nordine's reading of "The Rats in the Walls", non-existing book by Dorothy L. Sayers.
===Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 50==
Crypt of Cthulhu #50 was published in September 1987. It had 52 pages. 
The theme of the issue was "Ghostly Tales by Ramsey Campbell".
Contents
* Cover Art by Allen Koszowski [illustration] (front cover)
* It Came from the Past by Ramsey Campbell [essay] (2–3)
* The Haunted Manor by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (5)
* The Oak Chest by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (6–7)
* The Hollow in the Woods by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (8–10)
* Things from the Sea by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (11–12)
* The Grave in the Desert by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (13)
* Accident by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (14)
* The Friend by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (15)
* The Devil’s Cart by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (16–17)
* Tem Bashish by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (18–19)
* The Whirlpool by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (20–21)
* The Whispering Horror by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (22–23)
* Bradmoor by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (24–33)
* Hybrid by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (34–35)
* The Tower by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (36–40)
* Conversation in a Railway Carriage by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (41–42)
* The Mask by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (43–47)
* Premonition by Ramsey Campbell [fiction] (48–49)
* R’lyeh Review [review] (51, 42, 47, 12)
** The Death of a Gentleman: The Last Days of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (The Strange Co.) by R. Alain Everts; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (51, 42, 47)
** An Epistle to the Rt. Honble Maurice Winter Moe, Esq. (The Strange Co.) by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (51, 42, 47)
** An Epistle to Francis, Ld. Belknap (The Strange Co.) by H. P. Lovecraft; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (51, 42, 47)
** American Gothic (TOR, 1987) by Robert Bloch; reviewed by Stefan Dziemianowicz (47, 12)
* Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter] (52, 21, 40)
** Letter by Mike Ashley (52)
** Letter by Maryanne Snyder (52)
** Letter by Bruce Walker (52)
** Letter by Sean Branney (52)
** Letter by Robert Bloch (52)
** Letter by Tani Jantsang (52, 21)
** Letter by Mike D. Mason (21, 40)
* Interior Art by Ramsey Campbell [illustration] (Throughout)
* Next Time . . . [essay] (back cover)
===Letters of Comment===
Other subjects discussed: Morgan Robertson, Fat Face by Michael Shea, reviews of the previous issues.
===Reactions and Reviews===
==References==
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