Cthulhu's Reign

About the editor

Darrell Schweitzer is the author of the novels The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, and The Mask of the Sorcerer, a recent novella published as a book, Living with the Dead, plus about three hundred short stories, hundreds of essays, reviews, and poems. His credits include Twilight Zone Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Interzone, Cemetery Dance, Postscripts, Amazing Stories, Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post. He shared a World Fantasy Award with George Scithers, as coeditor of Weird Tales magazine, a post he held for nineteen years. With George Scithers he coedited Tales from the Spaceport Bar and Another Round at the Spaceport Bar. He is also the editor of The Secret History of Vampires (DAW 2007) and Full Moon City (2010, with Martin H. Greenberg). He has also edited many books of nonfiction, including the classic Discovering H. P. Lovecraft, which has been in print for over 30 years. He has also achieved a certain notoriety for rhyming the name of Cthulhu in a limerick, as follows:

A cultist entranced with Cthulhu encountered a slavering ghoul who said, “Old Ones don’t need me, they won’t even feed me, and so in a pinch I guess you’ll do.”

But if this proves to be Schweitzer’s most enduring work, we fear for the future of mankind.