Nameless Cults (short story collection)

Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard

Author	Robert E. Howard
Illustrator	Dave Carson
Cover artist	Harry Fassl
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Chaosium
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	353
ISBN	1-56882-130-1 (US-paperback)
OCLC	49537333

Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard is a collection of Cthulhu Mythos short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the US in 2001 by Chaosium Press. All of these stories had been published previously, between 1929 and 1985, in Weird Tales, From Beyond the Dark Gateway, Strange Tales, Weirdbook, Fantasy Crosswinds, Coven, Fantasy Book, Dark Things, and The Fantasy Magazine.

The collection includes an introduction by Robert M. Price called "Raven, Son of Morn." Price's introduction gives a short sketch of Howard's overall writing and a more detailed overview of his Cthulhu Mythos work and its relation to that of other mythos writers.

The collection includes the following stories (dates included are first publication as listed in the book):

"The Black Stone" (1931)
"Worms of the Earth" (1936)
"The Little People" (1932)
"People of the Dark" (1932)
"The Children of the Night" (1931)
"The Thing on the Roof" (1932)
"The Abbey" with C. J. Henderson (1975)
"The Fire of Asshurbanipal" (1936)
"The Door the World" with Joseph S. Pulver (1977)^[1]
"The Hoofed Thing" (1970) ^[2]
"Dig Me No Grave" (1937)
"The House in the Oaks" with August Derleth
"The Black Bear Bites" (1974)
"The Shadow Kingdom" (1929)
"The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" (1931)
"Skull-Face" (1929)
"Black Eons" with Robert M. Price (1985)
"The Challenge from Beyond" with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and Frank Belknap Long (1935)

Related Works

Robert E. Howard bibliography

References

↑ Copyright page notes that this was first published as "The Door to the Garden."
↑ Copyright page notes that this was first published as "Usurp the Night."

Works by Robert E. Howard

Adventure

El Borak	"Blood of the Gods" "The Coming of El Borak" "The Country of the Knife" "The Daughter of Erlik Khan" "Hawk of the Hills" "The Lost Valley of Iskander" "North of Khyber" "Son of the White Wolf" "Three-Bladed Doom"

Fantasy

Conan	"Beyond the Black River" "Black Colossus" "The Black Stranger" "Cimmeria" "The Devil in Iron" "Drums of Tombalku" "The Frost Giant's Daughter" "The God in the Bowl" "The Hall of the Dead" "The Hand of Nergal" "The Hour of the Dragon" "Iron Shadows in the Moon" "Jewels of Gwahlur" "The People of the Black Circle" "The Phoenix on the Sword" "The Pool of the Black One" "Queen of the Black Coast" "Red Nails" "Rogues in the House" "The Scarlet Citadel" "Shadows in Zamboula" "The Snout in the Dark" "The Tower of the Elephant" "The Vale of Lost Women" "A Witch Shall be Born" "Wolves Beyond the Border" "Xuthal of the Dusk"

Solomon Kane	"The Right Hand of Doom"

Kull	"By This Axe, I Rule" "Exile of Atlantis" "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"

Bran Mak Morn	"The Children of the Night" "Worms of the Earth"

Comedy

Sailor Steve Costigan	"Alleys of Peril" "Blow the Chinks Down!" "Breed of Battle" "The Bull Dog Breed" "Champ of the Forecastle" "Circus Fists" "Dark Shanghai" "Fist and Fang" "General Ironfist" "Night of Battle" "The Pit of the Serpent" "Sailor's Grudge" "The Sign of the Snake" "The Slugger's Game" "Sluggers on the Beach" "Texas Fists" "The TNT Punch" "Vikings of the Gloves" "Waterfront Fists" "Winner Take All"

Breckinridge Elkins	"A Gent from Bear Creek"

Horror

John Kirowan	"The Children of the Night" "The Haunter of the Ring" "The Black Stone"

Other

Other stories	"Almuric" "Black Canaan" "Pigeons from Hell" "Post Oaks & Sand Roughs" "The Shadow of the Vulture" "Skull-Face" "The Sowers of the Thunder" "The Twilight of the Grey Gods"

Other characters	Cormac Fitzgeoffrey James Allison Red Sonya Dark Agnes de Chastillon Steve Harrison Turlogh Dubh O'Brien Kirby O'Donnell The Sonora Kid

Poetry	Echoes from an Iron Harp (1972)

See also	List of works by Robert E. Howard List of poems by Robert E. Howard "The Hyborian Age"

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Nameless Cults (short story collection)

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