Here’s my listing of items of scholarly interest, as noted in the newly available PDF digital downloads for Crypt of Cthulhu, based on the essay titles. I omit texts from Joshi, Mariconda and Burleson, since those are now available in their recent and affordable paperback book collections of their work.
So I need 32 issues to get a near-complete set of the desired scholarship in Crypt, assuming some fills from the free issues currently hosted on Archive.org. Also, I find I already have copies of: 23; 8; and 7. At $3 a time for the remaining PDF issues that’s $87.
There is some sort of Guest option at the Checkout, but unfortunately one still has to effectively register with an email address in in order to pay and download. One wonders how many casual sales are lost by online vendors, by demanding a sign-up registration rather than allowing a simple registration-less Paypal/download system.
As yet, we don’t yet have, in PDF download, the following issues: 110 (2018); 109 (2018); 108 (2017); 100; 99; 97; 95; 94; 92-88; 82-81; 78; and 77. Though these can be had in print by mail-order.
Of these, there’s interesting sounding scholarship in: 110, 109, 108, 100; 97; 91; and 81.
Here are the current $3 PDF issues in reverse date order, with interesting essays and letters noted:
Crypt of Cthulhu 103, Hallowmas 1999.
“The Unknown Lovecraft I: Political Operative” by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
“The Whole Wide World: An HPL Biopic?” by Darrell Schweitzer.
Crypt of Cthulhu 98, Eastertide 1998
“Poe and HPL” by Ross F. Bagby.
“You Fool! Loveman is Dead!” by Robert M. Price.
Crypt of Cthulhu 97, Hallowmas 1997.
“The Sign of the Magna Mater” [Apparently an essay on “The Rats in The Walls”]
Crypt of Cthulhu 85, Hallowmas 1993.
“H.P. Lovecraft and the Feast of Saturnalia” by Peter Smith.
Crypt of Cthulhu 83, Eastertide 1993.
“A Surprisingly Sexual Interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft; or “The Id Howard Hid”” by Forrest Jackson.
“Not in the Spaces We Know but Between Them: “The Dunwich Horror” as an Allegory of Reading” by Robert M. Price.
“Lucian’s True Story and Lovecraft’s Dream-Quest” by Robert M. Price.
Crypt of Cthulhu 76, Hallowmas 1990.
“Dunsanian Influence on Lovecraft Outside his “Dunsanian” Tales” by Robert M. Price.
“Where Lovecraft Died” by M. Eileen McNamara, M.D.
“Dead Ringers: The Leiber-Lovecraft Connection” by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
“Julius Schwartz on Lovecraft” by Will Murray.
Crypt of Cthulhu 75, Michaelmas 1990.
“C. Hall Thompson: The First Neo-Lovecraftian?” by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
“H.P. Lovecraft and the Century of Violence” by Colin Wilson.
Crypt of Cthulhu 74, Lammas 1990).
“Lovecraft and Strange Tales” by Will Murray.
“Who the Heck was Moses Brown Jenkins?” by Will Murray.
Crypt of Cthulhu 72, Roodmas 1990. (“Rats in the Walls” issue)
“Magna Mater! The Religion of Atys and Cybele” by Robert M. Price.
“On “The Rats in the Walls”” by Robert M. Price.
“Exham Priory: From the Papers of Sir William Brinton” by Robert M. Price. (Fiction, but said to be a terrific sequel to “Rats”, and one of his best tales).
Crypt of Cthulhu 69, Yuletide 1989.
“Nameless Gods and Entities: Robert E. Howard’s Contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos” by Lin Carter.
Crypt of Cthulhu 66, Lammas 1989
“H.P. Lovecraft and the Cabala” by David F. Godwin.
“A Conversation With E. Hoffmann Price” transcribed by Gregorio Montejo; interview of E. Hoffmann Price.
Crypt of Cthulhu 65, St. John’s Eve 1989.
“Surrealism and H.P. Lovecraft” by John Brower.
Crypt of Cthulhu 62, Candlemas 1989. (Lowndes issue)
“Two Letters from Lovecraft” by H.P. Lovecraft. Copious advice from a sunset Lovecraft to a young writer, on… “which authors were hacks, which were great, which stories of M.R. James weren’t worth bothering with and which Poe was transcendent.”
“Lowndes, Lovecraft, and the Health Knowledge Years” by Mike Ashley.
“On Forbidden Knowledge” by Robert A.W. Lowndes.
“On H.P. Lovecraft’s Views of Weird Fiction” by Robert A.W. Lowndes.
Crypt of Cthulhu 60, Hallowmas 1988. (Robert Barlow issue)
“Robert H. Barlow as H.P. Lovecraft’s Literary Executor: An Appreciation” by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
Crypt of Cthulhu 57, St. John’s Eve 1988.
“The Cosmic Connection” by Mike Ashley.
“I Found Innsmouth!” by Will Murray.
“Lovecraft’s Ancestors” by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
“In a Sequester’d Churchyard” by David E. Schultz.
Crypt of Cthulhu 55, Eastertide 1988.
“The Cryptophile: An Index to the first fifty issues of The Crypt of Cthulhu (1981–1987)” compiled by Mike Ashley.
Crypt of Cthulhu 53, Candlemas 1988. (Also on Archive.org)
On “Azathoth” by Will Murray.
““The Thing in the Moonlight”: A Hoax Revealed” by David E. Schultz.
“Where was the Place of Dagon?” by Will Murray.
“Faulty Memories and “Evill Sorceries”” by Robert M. Price.
“Did Lovecraft Have Syphilis?” by Robert M. Price.
“Who the Hell was Winfield Scott Phillips?” by Will Murray.
Crypt of Cthulhu 52, Yuletide 1987. (Also on Archive.org)
“Lovecraft as a Character in Lovecraftian Fiction” by Robert M. Price.
Crypt of Cthulhu 51, Hallowmas 1987. (Also on Archive.org)
“Lovecraft and Blackwood: A Surveillance” by Mike Ashley.
“Did Lovecraft Revise “The Curse of Alabad and Ghinu and Aratza”?” by Will Murray.
“Henry Kuttner’s Cthulhu Mythos Tales: An Overview” by Shawn Ramsey.
Crypt of Cthulhu 49, Lammas 1987. (Also on Archive.org)
“Thematic Links in Arthur Gordon Pym, At the Mountains of Madness, and Moby Dick” by Marc A. Cerasini.
“The Blind Idiot God: Miltonic Echoes in the Cthulhu Mythos” by Thomas Quale.
Postcard to Charles D. Hornig by H.P. Lovecraft.
““The Pool”: Recommendations for Revision — Synopsis” by H.P. Lovecraft. (See also #47)
“At the Home of Poe” by Frank Belknap Long.
Crypt of Cthulhu 48, St. John’s Eve 1987
“The Origin of Lovecraft’s “Black Magic” Quote” by David E. Schultz.
Crypt of Cthulhu 47, Roodmas 1987).
“The Pool” by Donald R. Burleson (fiction, but a re-assemblage based on the Lovecraft revision notes in #49).
“Ethel M. Phillips Morrish: May 15, 1888 – January 17, 1987” by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
Crypt of Cthulhu 46, Eastertide 1987.
“Three Quotations and a Fabrication” by William Fulwiler.
“Imaginative Allusions in Lovecraft’s Letters” by Will Murray.
“The First Lewis Theobald” by R. Boerem. (On the historical figure whose name Lovecraft used as his main pseudonym).
Lovecraft’s Letters to Vincent Starrett by H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft’s Letters to Adolphe de Castro by H.P. Lovecraft.
Crypt of Cthulhu 45, Candlemas 1987.
“Digging Up Irem” by Lin Carter.
“Roots of the Miskatonic” by Will Murray.
“The Birth of Ubbo-Sathla: Smith, Wandrei, Alfred Kramer, and the Begotten Source” by Steve Behrends.
“Lovecraft on Radio & Record” by Will Murray.
“The Lurking Beans: A Real-Life Martense Family” by Jim Cort.
“A Pre-Lovecraft Cthulhu Dreamer” by Leon L. Gammell.
Crypt of Cthulhu 38, Eastertide 1986. (Also on Archive.org)
“The Tomb” & “Dagon”: A Double Dissection by William Fulwiler.
“Spawn of the Moon-Bog” by Will Murray.
“Exploring “The Temple”” by David E. Schultz.
“On “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”” by M. Eileen McNamara, M.D.
“The Little Tow-Head Fiend: Or the Problem of “Herbert West”” by Will Murray.
“HPL’s Style” by Ralph E. Vaughan.
Crypt of Cthulhu 37, Candlemas 1986.
“Lovecraft’s Cosmic History” by Robert M. Price.
“Real World Links in The Dream-Quest” by Ralph E. Vaughan.
“Do Shoggoths Lurk
? In The Case of Charles Dexter Ward?” by Will Murray.
“A Note on Nicholas Roerich” by Ben P. Indick.
Crypt of Cthulhu 33, Lammas 1985. (Also on Archive.org, albeit in a grubby low-res scan)
“The Prophet from Providence” by Dirk W. Mosig.
“Lovecraft: The Dissonance Factor in Imaginative Literature” by Dirk W. Mosig.
“Poe, Hawthorne, and Lovecraft: Variations on a Theme of Panic” by Dirk W. Mosig.
Crypt of Cthulhu 30, Eastertide 1985.
“Lovecraft’s New York Exile: Its Influence on His Life and Writings” by David E. Schultz.
“On the Revision of “Dreams of Yith”” by Edward P. Berglund.
“Some Ancestors of Vathek: The “Eastern Stories” of John Hawksworth in The Adventurer, 1752–54″ by Darrell Schweitzer.
“Lovecraft in the Comics” by Will Murray.
“Lovecraft in Rock Music” by John Stanton.
Crypt of Cthulhu 28, Yuletide 1984.
“Sources for “The Colour out of Space”” by Will Murray.
“The Humor at Red Hook” by Robert M. Price.
“Abnormal Longevity in “The Picture in the House”” by Darrell Schweitzer.
“A Note on “Cool Air”” by Will Murray.
Crypt of Cthulhu 23, St. John’s Eve 1984. (Also on Archive.org)
“Prehuman Language in Lovecraft” by Will Murray.
Crypt of Cthulhu 20, Eastertide 1984.
“H.P. Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth” by David E. Schultz.
“The Story in Fungi from Yuggoth” by Ralph E. Vaughan.
“The Lack of Continuity in Fungi from Yuggoth” by David E. Schultz.
“Illuminating “The Elder Pharos”” by Will Murray.
““St. Toad’s” Revisited” by Robert M. Price.
“Poet of the Unknown” by Dirk W. Mosig.
“Two Spurious Lovecraft Poems” by S.T. Joshi.
“The First Cthulhu Mythos Poem” by Will Murray.
Crypt of Cthulhu 18, Yuletide 1983.
“Locating Lovecraft” by Ralph E. Vaughan
“Mearle Prout and “The House of the Worm”” by Will Murray
Crypt of Cthulhu 17, Hallowmas 1983.
“Self-Parody in Lovecraft’s Revisions” by Will Murray.
“On “The Loved Dead”” by David E. Schultz.
“New Clues to Lovecraft’s Role in “Out of the Eons” and “The Crawling Chaos”” by Robert M. Price.
“Mysteries of the Hoggar Region” by Will Murray.
“Lost Revisions?” by Robert M. Price.
Crypt of Cthulhu 15, Lammas 1983.
“Tentacles in Dreamland: Cthulhu Mythos Elements in the Dunsanian Stories” by Will Murray.
““The Other Gods” and the Four Who Entered Paradise” by Robert M. Price.
“Pombo and “The Other Gods”” by Robert Schwartz.
“The Horror of “Polaris”” by Ralph E. Vaughan.
“Something About the Cats of Ulthar” by Jason C. Eckhardt.
Crypt of Cthulhu 13, Roodmas 1983.
“Kadath and Mordor: The Quest in Lovecraft and Tolkien” by Ben P. Indick.
“The Dueling Cosmoses of H.P. Lovecraft and G.K. Chesterton” by Edward T. Babinski.
Crypt of Cthulhu 12, Eastertide 1983.
“My Debt to H.P. Lovecraft” by Robert Anton Wilson.
“Lovecraft and Antarctica” by Ralph E. Vaughan.
Crypt of Cthulhu 11, Candlemas 1983.
“A Factual Basis for “The Green Meadow”?” by Ralph E. Vaughan.
“Did Lovecraft Revise “Doom Around the Corner”?” by Will Murray.
“Doom Around the Corner” by Wilfred Blanch Talman (fiction).
“Who Were the Boupa Priests?” by Robert M. Price.
“Imprisoned with Hazel Heald” by Robert M. Price.
Crypt of Cthulhu 10, “Ashes and Others” (Yuletide 1982).
“The Diary of Alonzo Typer” is Lumley’s rough draft, which Lovecraft revised, not the story Weird Tales published.
Crypt of Cthulhu 8, Michaelmas 1982.
“H.P. Lovecraft” by Colin Wilson.
“Homosexual Panic in “The Outsider”” by Robert M. Price.
“Lovecraft and the Male Gender Role” by Morgana LaVine.
Crypt of Cthulhu 7, Lammas 1982.
“Was There a Real Brown Jenkin?” by Will Murray. (Possible influence of local folklore on Lovecraft)
“Is Abdul Alhazred Still Alive?” by Robert M. Price. (Examines the internal chronologies).
Crypt of Cthulhu 5, Roodmas 1982.
“HPL and HPB: Lovecraft’s Use of Theosophy” by Robert M. Price.
“Monsters of Mu: The Lost Continent in the Cthulhu Mythos” by Robert M. Price.
“Reincarnation in Lovecraft’s Fiction” by Robert M. Price.
“Chariots of the Old Ones?” by Charles Garofalo and Robert M. Price. (On the 1970s ‘ancient astronauts’ best-selling pseudo-history books, presumably?)
“The Pseudo-Intellectual in Weird Fiction” by Robert M. Price.
Crypt of Cthulhu 1, Hallowmas 1981.
“Lovecraft’s Concept of Blasphemy” by Robert M. Price.
