MAIL-CALL OF CTHULHU

Issue 002

copyright © 1981 by Robert M. Price
reprinted by permission of Robert M. Price

23 Oct 81

Dear Bob:

Many thanks for CRYPT OF CTHULHU. On reading your piece on HPL's use of "blasphemy", it struck me that you could have connected the second meaning, the tabu on unauthorized mixing, with HPL's own outspoken hatred of racial, cultural, fee. mixing. : : : As you doubtless know, some EODers still regard me as something from under a flat stone because in my LOVECRAFT I presented HPL in a somewhat less than heroic light. lä!

L. Sprague deCamp
Villanova, Pa.

 

Oct. 12, 1981

Dear Robert:

Thanks for the copy of CRYPT OF CTHULHU. I have never belonged to the EOD, although I did receive the first four or five mailings of the organization some years back. I'm sure your attractive booklet outshines most of the material submitted to EOD and similar APA groups.

I will put it with my Lovecraft collection, which is quite extensive. While I am not as enthused with HPL as I was twenty or thirty years ago, I still consider his books, letters, etc., as a key portion of my library.

Gerry de la Ree
Saddle River
New Jersey

 

17 Nov 81

Dear Keeper ---

Thanks for Crypt. Most interesting.

In the past, of course, EOD and Yrs. Truly haven't always seen eye to pseudoscanner, but I'm an easy going sort of Old One and don't really mind (indeed often endorse) the ideas and ideals of others. That doesn't mean to say I've changed; (though I did of course undergo my change some time ago --- which is why I spend so much time in the water) but it's nice to know that Cthulhu is still alive and well and dwelling in R'lyeh, and in such places as Crypt.

Remember me to Obediah Marsh,

Yrs for the Exorcism of Aargnhatzopazzz ---

Brian Lumley
Bedhampton, England

 

November 19, 1981

Dear Dr. Price:

Thank you so much for sending me the first number of the Crypt of Cthulhu. It is very well done. I was particularly delighted with the style. Please be sure to send me subsequent issues.

Yours appreciatively,

Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, Esq.
Dean, Simon Greenleaf School of Law
Orange, California