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Finding Mythos Reading Material?

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Hello all,

I'm new here and relatively new to Myhtos.

I'm wondering how I can get my hands on older Myhos works? I know Lovecraft's work is easily obtainable, but I've looked at this site and I can't seem to find many (or really any) works by the other authors, like:

August Derleth
Clark Ashton Smith
Donald Wandrei
Duane W. Rimel
Frank Belknap Long Jr.
Hazel Heald
Henry Kuttner
Hugh B. Cave
Manly Wade Wellman
Richard F. Searight
Robert Bloch
Robert E. Howard
Robert H. Barlow
Henry Kuttner
Mark Schorer

Other than really expensive used copies online! :evil:

Does anyone know where these can be found? Are ebooks available, like for Lovecraft's works?

What about new works? Any suggested readings in the last decade or 2?

Thanks,
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Treader of the dust is a good one, good point I really wanna check those stories out too, I'm just too lazy to go looking for them
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I don't know what you've read, but you might enjoy these, since they were favorites of HPL:

Algernon Blackwood
Arthur Machen
M.R. James

Also, somewhat more selectively:
"The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce
"The Voice in the Night", "The Derelict" and The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

Many of these can be found online. If you're interested, look into this thread for links:

http://www.templeofdagon.com/forum/view ... 33&start=0
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Anwsering my own question, here's some Clark Ashton Smith... The following stories are available on www.eldritchdark.com , some even as audio books:

The Coming of the White Worm
The Door to Saturn
The Holiness of Azedarac
The House of Haon-Dor
The Hunters from Beyond
The Light from the Pole
The Nameless Offspring
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Seven Geases
The Stairs in the Crypt
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
Ubbo-Sathla
Vulthoom
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Post by wilum pugmire »

A really excellent start in finding Mythos fiction, the older stuff, newer stuff, rare stuff, are the series of Cycle books edited by Robert M. Price for CHAOSIUM. My favorite is THE NYARLATHOTEP CYCLE. There's a whole slew of them, and if CHAOSIUM doesn't sell them any longer they should be easily available online or at sites such as MYTHOS BOOKS. There is also Edward P. Berglund's Cthulhu Mythos site that has a thorough list of Mythos stories.
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Robert E. Howards mythos works should be pretty easy to find. Although unless you get them in mythos collections, you'll have to find them scattered through various REH collections instead. Which ain't to bad. His writings rock as much as HPL's. Plus I read somewhere that at least some of the Conan stories are even possibly within the mythos.
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Amazon.com has, in America, a Cthulhu Mythos fan group, and they are always listing new books and related Cthulhu Mythos items. Hippocampus Press has a steady schedule of publishing new Mythos collections aND they will soon publish Robert M. Price's THE TINDALOS CYCLE, with stories by or inspired by Frank Belknap Long (including the entire short novel, THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS!!!). S. T. Joshi has just been hired by Perilous Press to begin to edit a line of Cthulhu Mythos books, the first of which will be a new collection of Mythos fiction by Michael Shea. My own new book of Mythos fiction, WEIRD INHABITANTS OF SESQUA VALLEY, will be published next month by Terradan Works, and later this year we will have TWO fantastic new anthologies of modern Lovecraftian fiction in hardcover: S. T. Joshi's BLACK WINGS (published in England by P. S. Publishing) and Ellen Datlow's LOVECRAFT UNBOUND.
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Post by tsathoggua »

Hint: Solve this all find an online mythos library XD
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Post by Charon »

I found all my mythos stuff in local bookstores or Amazon.

Derleth's not tricky to find on most online bookshops, and neither are the others.
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