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Post by andydecker on Dec 18, 2022 16:51:28 GMT
Robert M. Price - The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter (Chaosium, 1997, 271 pages)  Content: Robert M. Price - Introduction
Lin Carter - The Red Offering
Lin Carter - The Dweller in the Tomb (1971)
Lin Carter - The Thing in the Pit (1980)
Lin Carter - Out of the Ages (1975)
Lin Carter - The Horror in the Gallery
Lin Carter - The Winfield Heritance (1981)
Lin Carter - Perchance to Dream (1988)
Lin Carter - Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods (1988)
Lin Carter - Dreams from R'lyeh: A Sonnet Cycle
Lin Carter - Something in the Moonlight (1980)
Lin Carter - The Fishers from Outside (1988)
Lin Carter - Behind the Mask (1987)
Lin Carter & Robert M. Price - The Strange Doom of Enos Harker
Robert M. Price - The Soul of the Devil-Bought (1996)
Lin Carter & H. P. Lovecraft - The Bell in the Tower (1989)This is a tribute to Lin Carter and his Mythos fiction. Quite a few of the mostly short stories were only published in fanzines like 'Crypt of Cthulhu'. Calling this a book for Carter fans only may be a bit unfair, on the other hand … Editor and collaborator Price's introductions to the stories are thorough as always, right down to the explanation of different spellings for names in different Mythos publications. And sometimes they may be more interesting than the actual stories. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 18, 2022 19:19:01 GMT
Calling this a book for Carter fans only may be a bit unfair Are there, in fact, Carter fans? |
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Post by enoch on Dec 18, 2022 19:27:47 GMT
This is one book in an otherwise excellent series that I didn't bother to buy. They were really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 18, 2022 21:35:51 GMT
Calling this a book for Carter fans only may be a bit unfair Are there, in fact, Carter fans? Considering he sold more than 60 novels to publishers over a span of more than 20 years, I guess he had his loyal readers.
Even if he only concentrated on pastiches, his Conan stories are much better than de Camp's. He will never be seen as a defining creator in the genre, and the books I read of him are indeed just simple variations of a theme, but what he did was always professional work. I guess he deserves more respect than we are willing to give him normally.
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