Acolytes of Cthulhu

Acolytes of Cthulhu

Print edition ISBN: 9781781165263

E-book edition ISBN: 9781781165270

Published by Titan Books

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First Titan Books edition: June 2014

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Introduction Copyright © 2014 by Robert M. Price

Cover Art Copyright © 2014 by Bob Eggleton. All rights reserved

Earl Peirce, Jr. “Doom of the House of Duryea” © 1936 Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales

Joseph Payne Brennan, “The Seventh Incantation” © 1963 by Joseph Payne Brennan for Scream at Midnight

Hugh B. Cave and Robert M. Price, “From the Pits of Elder Blasphemy” © 2014 by The Estate of Hugh B. Cave

Duane Rimel, “The Jewels of Charlotte” © 1935 by Duane Rimel for Unusual Stories

Manly Wade Wellman, “The Letters of Cold Fire” © 1944 by Popular Fiction Company for Weird Tales

Henry Hasse, “Horror at Vecra” © 1943, appears here by permission of Forrest J. Ackerman

Charles R. Tanner, “Out of the Jar” © 1940 by Albing Publications for Stirring Science Stories

Edmond Hamilton, “The Earth Brain” © 1932 by Popular Fiction Company for Weird Tales

James Causey, “Legacy in Crystal” © 1943 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales

C. Hall Thompson, “The Will of Claude Ashur” © Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales

David H. Keller, “The Final War” first appeared from Perri Press in 1949

Arthur Pendragon, “The Dunstable Horror” © 1964 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company for Fantastic Stories of the Imagination

Arthur Pendragon, “The Crib of Hell” © 1965 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company for Fantastic Stories of the Imagination

Steffan B. Aletti, “The Last Work of Pietro de Opono” © 1969 by Health Knowledge, Inc. for Magazine of Horror

Steffan B. Aletti, “The Eye of Horus” © 1968 by Health Knowledge, Inc., for Magazine of Horror

Steffan B. Aletti, “The Cellar Room” © 1969 by Health Knowledge, Inc. for Weird Terror Tales

John S. Glasby, “Mythos” as by Max Chartair, © John Spencer & Co. for Supernatural Stories

Jorge Luis Borges, “There Are More Things” © 1975 by The Atlantic Monthly for The Atlantic Monthly

Randall Garrett, “The Horror Out of Time” © 1978 by Mercury Press, Inc. for Fantasy & Science Fiction

S.T. Joshi, “The Recurring Doom” © 1980 first appeared in Kenneth Neilly, ed., Lovecraftian Ramblings XV

Dirk W. Mosig, “Necrotic Knowledge” © 1976 first appeared in Mosig, ed., The Necrotic Scroll

Donald R. Burleson, “Night Bus” © 1985 by Yith Press for Eldritch Tales

Peter H. Cannon, “The Pewter Ring” © 1989 by Cryptic Publications for Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

David Kaufman, “John Lehman Alone” © 1987 for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

Gustav Meyrink, “The Purple Death” translated by Kathleen Houlihan and Robert M. Price © 1997 by Robert M. Price

Richard F. Searight and Franklyn Searight, “Mists of Death” © 1999 for the present collection.

Neil Gaiman, “Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar” © 1998 by Neil Caiman. First published in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy

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