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Ah yes! Fiction is once again in season
here at Crypt of Cthulhu. And what a menu you have to choose from! Feast
your eyes on these sumptuous goodies:
Gary Myers's fable of fright, "The
Tomb of Neb", our cover story, leads off the issue. Once you've
recovered from that one, see if you can work up the courage to sample Frank
Belknap Long's "Discovery Time", an eerie item of eldritch ichor
indeed! Then how's about a wild and weird tale by another master of the terror
tradition. Carl Jacobi: "The Monument", actually written in the good
old days, 1932, but shunning the light of day, as a good horror should, until
now.
Fellow pulp alumnus Duane Rimel serves
up the next dose of gourmet grue, "Chief White Cloud", a tale of the
range where not only the deer and the antelope play. . .
Lin Carter gives you no time to digest,
as he takes the lid off "Mnomquah", the
latest shuddersome section of the Necronomicon epic.
Next, there's "The Nemesis of the
Unfinished" by Clark Ashton Smith and Don Carter. Sound familiar? Yes, this
is the original, collaborative version of the story, the all-Smith version of
which appeared in Crypt of Cthulhu #27, Untold Tales. This version
is significantly different, and we thought you CAS connoisseurs might enjoy
savoring it.
For dessert: "Golnor the
Ape", a title familiar to Robert E. Howard enthusiasts, is one of those
story-fragments you see on lists of his unpublished manuscripts, one of those
items you are always idly hoping will surface somewhere, with or without a bogus
"completion" by someone else. Here it is, without an ending tacked on,
just as Howard wrote it.
As you may have noticed, all these
squamous scribes appeared in one or another of the various incarnations of Weird
Tales. We like to think that in some small way Crypt of Cthulhu
carries on that great tradition.
Robert M. Price, Editor
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