| Re: Which Stories Fit Into The Mythos...? I have a list of all the Cthulhuvian titles which I have in my collection -- novels, stories, poems, Lovecraftian letters mentioning Cthulhuvian critters (I follow Chris Jarocha-Ernst's rules for what is and isn't in the Mythos) -- and it's 43 pages long and contains 1218 titles. I haven't updated it for two years, though, so add another 100 or so to that number.
As j.d. has said, what is and isn't Mythos is debatable -- put twelve "Mythos experts" in a room and you'll get at least thirteen different answers out of them.
Lin Carter made a list of what he considered to be the Cthulhu Mythos back in 1971; I started to type it out, but it's got 119 items on it so I gave up. Carter, however, took a pretty strict view of these things, so he counted only 14 things by Lovecraft as Cthulhuvian. In his list he has the following people
* H. P. Lovecraft
* C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long & Robert E. Howard
* H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
* Zealia Bishop & H. P. Lovecraft
* Hazel Heald & H. P. Lovecraft
* William Lumley & H. P. Lovecraft
* Frank Belknap Long
* Robert E. Howard
* Clark Ashton Smith
* August Derleth & Mark Schorer
* August Derleth
* Robert Bloch
* Henry Hasse
* Henry Kuttner
* Ramsey Campbell
* J. Vernon Shea
* Brian Lumley
* James Wade
* Colin Wilson
* Gary Myers
* Lin Carter |