Lovecraft and Mythos anthologies? There's so many.

[Ancient History]

Quote Originally Posted by Robert Adam Gilmour

Has Robert E Howard ever had a tribute anthology? There are so many Conan continuations and clones but I doubt many are especially good.

Yes, there was

Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard

 

Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard

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[Ucasuni]

Agree with everything James Sucellus said, particularly the sentiment that all S&S is effectively a REH tribute. I think that a large part of REH's failure to attain the kind of literary status that HPL now enjoys is simply a function of what people think of when they think of Conan... namely, Arnold Schwarzenegger. You lose the delightful purple prose and and vivid fantasy, getting instead 80s special effects (at twice the cost and half the quality of Beastmaster, released the same year) and a neanderthal learning how make mouth-sounds.

Also, this thread tangent reminds me of two additional REH homages of note by KEW: a Bran Mak Morn novel, Legion from the Shadows, and a Conan novel, The Road of Kings. Legion from the Shadows is a delightful take on the vanished 9th Legion. Plot and style are easily the equal of any of KEW's Kane novels. Of course, Bran Mak Morn is a far less compelling character, so overall the book can't really compete with KEW's original creation. Still, KEW more than makes the best of it. As for The Road of Kings, I have not yet read it. When I went on a KEW binge several years ago, I struggled with an inevitably increasing anxiety about running out of KEW material, and forced myself to save The Road of Kings. I was so successful in saving it, in fact, that until today I completely forgot that it was waiting for me! As I recall, The Road of Kings was part of a series of novel-length Conan pastiches by various authors that garnered pretty middling reactions from fans... with one notable exception!

[hopfrog]

Has anyone read the Chaosium collection of REH's Mythos stories, NAMELESS CULTS? Is it true that the book came with a warning, either on the copyright page or maybe the back cover, that some readers may find the book offensive because of ye racist content of some of ye tales?

[Ancient History]

Quote Originally Posted by hopfrog

Has anyone read the Chaosium collection of REH's Mythos stories, NAMELESS CULTS? Is it true that the book came with a warning, either on the copyright page or maybe the back cover, that some readers may find the book offensive because of ye racist content of some of ye tales?

I have a copy. There is a disclaimer after the table of contents:

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The stories herein are complete and unexpurgated. Some contain racist stereotypes and references. Readers can judge them for themselves.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

If we're going on the idea that all sword and sorcery is a REH tribute, here is some more.

Flashing Swords 1-5 (ed) Lin Carter
Griots 1-2 (ed) Charles R Saunders
Swords And Sorcery (ed) L Sprague de Camp
The Sword and Sorcery Anthology (ed) David G Hartwell and Jacob Weisman
In Lands That Never Were (ed) Gordon Van Gelder
Swords and Dark Magic (ed) Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan
The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry (ed) Sean Wallace

Another mythos anthology: Spawn Of Cthulhu (ed) Lin Carter

[miguel1984]

This Spanish anthology got me hooked on weird fiction: Los Mitos de Cthulhu (The Cthulhu Mythos, Alianza Editorial, 1969), edited by Rafael Llopis Paret, who also published the Mythos-related El Novísimo Algazife o Libro de las Postrimerías in 1980.

This are the book's contents:

The Cthulhu Mythos, by Rafael Llopis Paret

Book One: The Precursors

-Idle Days on the Yann, by Lord Dunsany
-An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose Bierce
-The Yellow Sign, by Robert W. Chambers
-The Novel of the White Powder, by Arthur Machen
-The Wendigo, by Algernon Blackwood
-The Doom That Came to Sarnath, by H.P. Lovecraft

Book Two: The Mythos

-The Festival, by H.P. Lovecraft
-The Hounds of Tindalos, by Frank Belknap Long
-The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by H.P. Lovecraft
-The Black Stone, by Robert E. Howard
-The Nameless Offspring, by Clark Ashton Smith
-The Shadow Out of Time, by H.P. Lovecraft
-Out of the Aeons, by Hazel Heald & H.P. Lovecraft
-The Graveyard Rats, by Henry Kuttner
-The Shambler From the Stars, by Robert Bloch
-The Haunter of the Dark, by H.P. Lovecraft

Book Three: Posthumous Mythos

-Witches' Hollow, by August Derleth & H.P. Lovecraft
-The Seal of R'lyeh, by August Derleth
-The Shadow From the Steeple, by Robert Bloch
-The Church in High Street, by John Ramsey Campbell
-With Lovecraft's Technique, by Joan Perucho

The editor said he considered including The Lair of the Star-Spawn, by August Derleth & Mark R. Schorer, but decided against it due to its very low quality.

[Ancient History]

Quote Originally Posted by miguel1984

This Spanish anthology got me hooked on weird fiction: Los Mitos de Cthulhu (The Cthulhu Mythos, Alianza Editorial, 1969), edited by Rafael Llopis Paret

Total aside, but I love the covers for those.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

For William Hope Hodgson...

William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands 1-2 (ed) Andy W Robertson
Carnacki: The New Adventures (ed) Sam Gafford

Houses On The Borderland (ed) David Sutton is apparently just a haunted house anthology.

For Clark Ashton Smith...

Deepest Darkest Eden (ed) Cody Goodfellow
The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique (ed) John Pelan

For Robert W Chambers

A Season In Carcosa (ed) Joseph S. Pulver Sr
Cassilda's Song (ed) Joseph S. Pulver Sr
In The Court Of The Yellow King (ed) Glynn Owen Barrass

Arthur Machen...

Sorcery And Sanctity: A Homage To Arthur Machen

MR James...

Meddling With Ghosts (ed) Ramsey Campbell

Robert Aickman...

Aickman's Heirs (ed) Simon Stranzas

Ligotti...

Grimscribe's Puppets (ed) Joseph S. Pulver Sr

Laird Barron...

Children Of Old Leech (ed) Ross E Lockhart

CJ Henderson...

Cthulhu Detective (ed) Conyers, Kernot & Paradias

Mark Samuels...

Marked To Die (ed) Justin Isis

More Lovecraft...

Cthulhu Unbound 1-3 (ed) Brannan & Sunseri (1st and 2nd volumes), Sammons & Conyers (3rd volume)

I believe there is a Caitlin R Kiernan tribute anthology coming.

No Le Fanu or Blackwood tribute anthologies?

[Ucasuni]

Quote Originally Posted by Robert Adam Gilmour

For William Hope Hodgson... [...]

Damn yoouuuu!! *shakes fist at the heavens* Weren't you listening when I said my reading list was already unmanageably overloaded?!

I confess many of those anthologies in your post were already on my list... but it still netted me six more titles from the Hodgson, Smith, and Chambers anthologies that I hadn't heard of!

In that spirit, consider the following additions to your list:

MR James — Ghosts and Scholars Book of Shadows [Vols. 1 & 2] (ed. R Pardoe)
Bruno Schulz —This Hermetic Legislature (ed. D Ghetu & D P Watt)
Mikhail Bulgakov — The Master in Cafe Morphine (ed. D Ghetu)
Gustav Meyrink —Cinnabar's Gnosis (ed. D Ghetu)
J-K Huysmans — Transactions of the Flesh (eds. D P Watt & P Holman)
Fernando Pessoa — Dreams of Ourselves (ed. D Ghetu)
Hanns Heinz Ewers — Delicate Toxins (J Hirschhorn-Smith)

I would love to see a Jean Ray tribute anthology. His ability to straddle the fence between tongue-in-cheek pulp absurdity and sincere, cosmically uncanny horror (in the same story) has impressed me.

[xylokopos]

Quote Originally Posted by Ancient History

Quote Originally Posted by hopfrog Has anyone read the Chaosium collection of REH's Mythos stories, NAMELESS CULTS? Is it true that the book came with a warning, either on the copyright page or maybe the back cover, that some readers may find the book offensive because of ye racist content of some of ye tales? I have a copy. There is a disclaimer after the table of contents: Quote The stories herein are complete and unexpurgated. Some contain racist stereotypes and references. Readers can judge them for themselves.

A few weeks ago, I saw a man licking the glass partition next to his seat on the train. He would look at the glass, mumble something to himself, and then lick the glass slowly. He would admire his work for a few seconds and then repeat the process. I could see the action, but both the end goal and the mindset behind it were completely unfathomable to me.