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Subject: Re: Response to Cthulhu Mythos request. - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 18:22:37 EDT
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ecn-ee!hsut    Jul 16 14:00:00 1984

        I learnt about the correspondence on the Cthulhu Mythos a
little late --- could someone mail me the original note with the
list of stories?

        Here are a few contributions. I hope one or two haven't 
appeared on previous lists...

 1) The Horror at Oakdene and Others by Brian Lumley
                   (Arkham House 1977)
    This contains 3 Mythos tales including the title story,
    "Aunt Hestor" and "Born of the Winds" which was later expanded
    into a novel (I think). Like most of Lumley's stuff they're
    interesting but not very special. 

 2) Lost Worlds by Lin Carter (Daw 1980)
    Two "posthumous collaborations" with Clark Ashton Smith,
    "The Scroll of Morloc" and "The Stairs In the Crypt" and
    "The Thing In The Pit".(notice the "Robert Blake" titles!)
    These are little fantasies in the style of C.A. Smith with
    references to the more obscure monsters like Gnopkehs, Voormis
    and Nyogtha.

 3) Demons by Daylight by Ramsey Campbell (Jove/HBJ 1979)
    An uneven collection by in my opinion one of the best new
    Mythos writers. This has one piece related to the Mythos,
    "The Franklin Paragraphs", where the author pokes fun at
    his own stories and the Mythos in general.

 4) New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos ed. Ramsey Campbell
                    (Arkham House 1980)
    contents:
    Crouch End by Stephen King
    The Star Pools bu A.A. Attanasio (passing references to names, etc)
    The Second Wish by Brain Lumley  (passing references)
    Dark Awakening by Frank Belknap Long (not bad)
    Shaft no. 247 by Basil Copper    (again, only passing references)
    Black Man With A Horn by T.E.D. Klein (the best of the collection)
    Black Tome of Alsophocus by Martin Warnes (pos. coll. with Lovecraft
                              ...not terribly interesting)
    Then Curse The Darkness by David Drake (nice story, but no further
                   comment since I detest Drake's prose...)
    The Faces At Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell 


          Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead mentions the 
Necronomicon in the appendix but is not really related to the
Mythos (great stuff, nevertheless!) Basil Copper's novel The
Great White Space pays clear tribute to At the Mountains of Madness,
but does not mention any Mythos names or books. The premise
and atmosphere are also distinctly Cthuloid.

                                        Bill H.
                                        pur-ee!hsut