The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter is a collection of horror short stories by science fiction

Science fiction

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 and fantasy

Fantasy

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 author

Author

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 Lin Carter

Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...

, edited by Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price

Robert McNair Price is an American theologian and writer. He teaches philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus, including...

. It was first published as a trade paperback by Chaosium

Chaosium

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 in 1997 as book 13 of the publisher's "Cthulhu Cycle" series. The collection has also been translated into German

German language

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.

The book collects thirteen stories by Carter, two of them collaborative, his sonnet cycle "Dreams from R'lyeh" and an additional story by Price, all set in H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

's Cthulhu Mythos

Cthulhu Mythos

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...

, together with an introduction by Price.

"Dreams from R'lyeh" previously appeared in Carter's poetry collection of the same title

Dreams from R'lyeh

Dreams from R'lyeh is a collection of poems by Lin Carter. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,152 copies. It was Carter's only book published by Arkham House. The Sonnet Cycle, "Dreams from R'lyeh", that comprises the first two-thirds of the book, consists of poems...

, published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

in 1975.

Contents

Contents

• "Introduction" (by Robert M. Price)
• "The Red Offering"
• "The Dweller in the Tomb"
• "The Thing in the Pit"
• "Out of the Ages"
• "The Horror in the Gallery"
• "The Winfield Heritance"
• "Perchance to Dream"
• "Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods"
• "Dreams from R'lyeh: A Sonnet Cycle" (poems)
• "Something in Moonlight"
• "The Fishers from Outside"
• "Behind the Mask"
• "The Strange Doom of Enos Harker" (with Robert M. Price)
• "The Bell in the Tower" (with H. P. Lovecraft)
• "The Soul of the Devil-Bought" (by Robert M. Price)