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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1971

ISBN
  
0-345-02394-3

Author
  
Lin Carter

Publisher
  
Ballantine Books

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1971

Preceded by
  
New Worlds for Old

Cover artist
  
Gervasio Gallardo

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Series
  
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

Similar
  
Lin Carter books, Short Stories

The Spawn of Cthulhu is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in October 1971 as the thirty-sixth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It was the fifth anthology assembled by Carter for the series.

The book collects twelve fantasy tales and poems by various authors that either influenced or were influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos stories of H. P. Lovecraft, including one story by Lovecraft himself, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter.

Contents

  • "Introduction: About The Spawn of Cthulhu and H. P. Lovecraft" (Lin Carter)
  • "The Whisperer in Darkness" (H. P. Lovecraft)
  • "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (Ambrose Bierce)
  • "The Yellow Sign" (from The King in Yellow) (Robert W. Chambers)
  • "Cordelia’s Song from The King in Yellow" (Vincent Starrett)
  • "The Return of Hastur" (August Derleth)
  • "Litany to Hastur" (from Dreams from R'lyeh) (Lin Carter)
  • "The Children of the Night" (Robert E. Howard)
  • "K’n-yan" (Walter C. DeBill, Jr.)
  • "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" (Clark Ashton Smith)
  • "The Hounds of Tindalos" (Frank Belknap Long)
  • "The Curse of Yig" (Zealia Brown Reed Bishop)
  • "The Mine on Yuggoth" (Ramsey Campbell)

    • References

    The Spawn of Cthulhu Wikipedia
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