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No, it's not just your imagination: Crypt of
Cthulhu is printing more fiction! And we are only printing fiction by the
pros! We believe this is the level of quality you have come to expect from Crypt
of Cthulhu. This issue features a sinister sextet of stories by a no less
ghoulish group of writers!
Lin Carter's "The
Vault Beneath the Mosque" is another chapter in his reconstruction of
Alhazred's objectionable Necronomicon, eventually to be a full-fledged
book, as we predicted back in Crypt of Cthulhu #2. Lovecraft himself
mentioned this episode in his letters, and now you can learn what eldritch
secret was too shocking for even HPL to relate in detail!
"The Gods of Drinen"
is the second installment of a trilogy Gary Myers began in Crypt #22 with
"The Priest of Mlok". Look for the
third tale in a soon-upcoming issue of this magazine.
We welcome Eddy C. Berlin, a Belgian who writes with
eerie effectiveness in several languages, and whose four-hundred-plus (!)
stories have appeared in Year's Best Horror and Pan Book of Horror
Stories collections and many other volumes and magazines as well. He
slithers into these pages with "The Waiting Dark".
The saga of Gnostic swashbuckler Simon of Gitta
continues in "The Wedding of Sheila-Na-Gog"
by Glenn Rahman and Richard L. Tierney.
Duane Rimel, a veteran of The Acolyte, Weird
Tales, and of course, Crypt of Cthulhu, returns with "Goodbye,
Joe", a disquieting tale of a brief supernatural intrusion into the
mundane.
Finally, you may experience a feeling of deja vu
on reading "I am Your Shadow" by Clark Ashton Smith. You have read
another draft called "Strange Shadows" in Crypt of Cthulhu #25.
We realize that many Crypt readers are scholarly enthusiasts and are
greedily eager to see as much as they can of their favorites' work, even variant
drafts of familiar stories. And "I Am Your Shadow" is significantly
different from "Strange Shadows" to merit making it available.
Robert M. Price, Editor
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