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CRYPT OF
CTHULHU
A
Pulp
Volume
6,
Thriller
and
Theological
Journal
Number
7
Lammas
1987
CONTENTS
Editorial
Shards
.
2
Thematic
Links
in
Arthur
Gordon
Pym
At
the
Mountains
of
Madness
and
Moby
Dick
By
Marc
A.
Cerasini
,
3
Call
in
Me
Wizard
Whateley:
Echoes
"The
Dunwich
Horror"
By
Peter
H.
Cannon
of
Moby
Dick
21
The
Blind
Idiot
God:
Cthulhu
Mythos
Miltonic
Echoes
in
the
24
By
Thomas
Quale
Postcard
to
Charles
D.
Hornig
By
H.
P.
Lovecraft
29
Commentary
By
S.
T.
Joshi
"The
Pool,"
Recommendations
Synopsis
for
29
Revision-
31
By
H.
P.
Lovecraft
41
Aporia
and
Paradox
in
"The
Outsider"
By
Donald
R.
Burleson
At
the
Home
of
Poe
By
Frank
Belknap
Long
43
Edgar
and
Helen
By
Brett
Rutherford
46
From
the
Vaults
of
Yoh-Vombis
By
Lin
Carter
48
The
Keeper
at
the
Crypt
By
Carl
T.
Ford
Advice
to
the
51
Lovecraft-lorn
54
56
R'lyeh
Review
Mail-Call
of
Cthulhu
59
1
2
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of
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EDITORIAL
SHARDS
Lovecraft,
like
most
authors,
was
well-read.
And
of
course
an
author's
reading
is
going
to
influ-
ence
his
writing.
Crypt
of
Cthu
-
lhu
#49
explores
both
sides
of
HPL's
literary
process.
The
first
to
explore
the
literary
influences
on
Lovecraft
and
the
use
he
made
of
them
is
Marc
A.
Cera-
sini
in
"Thematic
Links
in
Arthur
Cordon
Pym
At
the
Mountains
of
Madness
and
Moby
Dick
.'
Espe-
cially
noteworthy
is
Cerasini's re-
vealing
suggestion
as
to
the
pos-
sible
genesis
of
Lovecraft's
crinoid
Old
Ones
in
an
overlooked
detail
of
Poe's
novel.
The
Moby
Dick
connection
is
traced
by
Peter
H.
Cannon
into
another
Lovecraft
tale
in
"Call
Me
Wizard
Whateley:
Echoes
of
Moby
Dick
in
'The
Dunwich
Hor-
ror.'"
Thomas
Quale
considers
the
possibility
of
John
Milton's
influ-
ence
on
Lovecraft
in
"The
Blind
Idiot
Cod:
Miltonic
Echoes
in
the
Cthulhu
Mythos."
The
case
made
here
especially
is
interesting
in
light
of
August
Derleth's
claim
that
the
Cthulhu
Mythos
is
paral-
lel
to
the
Christian
Mythos,
espe-
cially
the
fall
of
Satan.
It
useful
to
draw
inferences
is
from
what
HPL
read
to
what
he
wrote,
but
it
is
also
inevitably
unverifiable
(for
instance,
who
would
not
have
pontificated
that
"Polaris"
was
influenced
by
Dun-
sany
if
we
didn't
know
for
a
fact
that
Lovecraft
wrote
the
tale
be-
fore
he ever
laid
eyes
on
a
piece
of
Plunkett's
prose?).
We
are
on
,
1
self
explain
a
story
in
a
letter?
we
have
notes
or
drafts?
In
we
do,
at
least
sometimes.
And
in
this
issue
we
are
able
to
Do
fact
two
illuminating
if
esoteric
David
Hodson
has
pro-
copy
of
a
hitherto
unpub-
lished
postcard
from
HPL
to
Fan
-
Fan
editor
Charles
Hornig,
tasy
congratulating
him
on
his
new
job
present
pieces.
vided
a
,
As
as editor
of
Wonder
Stories
T.
Joshi's
brief
commentary
S.
reveals,
reveals
the
card's
text
interesting
details
about
the
re-
vision
of
"Supernatural
Horror
in
Literature."
The
other
item
shows
Lovecraft
the
revisor
at
work.
As
readers
of
Crypt
of
Cthulhu
#47
know,
HPL
offered
extensive
advice
to
Wilfred
Tal-
man
on
his
draft
of
a
story
to
be
called
"The
Pool."
was
Donald
It
Burleson
who
actually
incorporated
Lovecraft's
suggestions
into
a
fin-
ished
story
decades
later.
Having
presented
the
story
in
Crypt
#47,
we
felt
you
deserved
a
look
at
the
original
notes,
both
to
assess
the
extent
of
Lovecraft's
original
.
and
to
appreciate Burleson's
con-
siderable
skill
in
turning
the
rich
but
rather
raw
material
into
a
pol-
ished
whole.
Herewith,
thanks
to
Gerry
de
la
Ree,
"The
Pool,
Rec-
ommendations
for
Revision—
Syn-
opsis."
Finally,
we
present
Donald
Bur-
leson's
study
"Aporia
and
Paradox
ground
for
arguing
when
we
can
examine
Lovecraft's
own
background
materials;
does he him-
safer
which
he
'The
Outsider"'
in
in
brings
the
new
hermeneutical
key
of
deconstructionism
to
bear
on
Lovecraft's
text.
Robert
M.
Price,
Editor
.
Lammas
1987
/
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THEMATIC
LINKS
IN
ARTHUR
GORDON
PYM AT
THE
MOUNTAINS
OF
MADNESS
AND
MOBY
DICK
.
By
Marc
A.
A
previous
issue
of
Cthulhu'
was
dedicated
to
IT!
Cerasini
Crypt
of
one
of
with
.
another
literature,
Herman
classic
of
American
Melville's
Moby
FT
Lovecraft's
finest
works,
short
novel
At
the
Mountains
of
In
that
issue
two
authors,
Peter
H.
Cannon
and Ben
P.
In-
dick,
addressed
the
question
as
to
whether
or
not
Madness
was
a
"se-
Edgar
Allan
Poe's
only
quel"
to
complete
long
fiction.
The
Narra
-
the
Madness
.
tive
of
.
Arthur
Cordon
Pym
of
Nan
-
tucket
that
Cannon
concluded
Peter
"At
most
Lovecraft
took
inspiration
[Lovecraft's]
main
from
[Poe]
concern
being
to
do
hjs
version
of
an
Antarctic
yarn,
in
the
process
paying
incidental
tribute
to
Poe
...
and
Cannon
goes
on
to
At
the
that
categorically
state
.
.
Lovecraft's
Furthermore,
Dick
exploration
of
these
themes
places
him
squarely
in
the
mainstream
of
At
American
literature.
classic
least
one
of
the
major
concepts
found
in
Lovecraft's
novel
springs
Edgar
Poe's
tale,
directly
from
and
contrary
to
Cannon's
conclu-
more
than
mere
there
are
sion,
"incidental"
tributes
to
Poe
in
Love-
craft's
At
the
Mountains
of
Mad
-
.
Mountains
of
Cordon
stories,
Pym
Madness
and Arthur
are
very
different
for
ness
What
connections
can
be
found
three
dissimilar
works
in
these
by
three
of
America's
composed
most
distinctive
authors
with
very
different
intentions
in
mind?
What
shall
be
discussed
in
this
article
is,
first,
the
central
source
.
written
very
different
reasons.
Ben
two
of
tales,
the
P.
Indick
summarized
the
and
pointed out
some
connections
between
them,
directly
inspired,
material
that
or
indirectly,
all
three
tales;
and
ironic
thematic
and
second,
the
link
three
which
the
elements
novels.
and
he
asserts:
that
"It
is
interesting
Lovecraft's
novel
may
be
con-
sidered
a
sequel
(but
not a
con
-
He
uses
tinuation
)
of Poe's
novel.
and
sites
from
the
earlier
ideas
no
way
inferring
that
work,
in
Central
Source
Material
A
for
Gordon
primary
source
of
inspiration
both
Moby
Dick
and
Arthur
Pym
was
Jeremiah
N.
Rey-
Arthur
person,
Cordon
Pym
was
a
real
but
rather
that
Poe
may
terrifying
truths
have
disguised
in
fiction-
he
had
unearthed
however,
Indick,
alized
form.
is
not
explicit
about
what
"ideas"
Poe's
borrowed
from
Lovecraft
contemporary
of
Edgar
a
nolds,
Allan
Poe
and
Herman
Melville.
controversial
was
a
Reynolds
and
explorer
a
scientist
figure,
America's
foremost
who
became
exponent
of
the
"Symmesian"
theory
of the
inally
...
novel
Symmes
Voyage
Moreover,
both
writers
missed
over
some
pertinent
glossed
or
points
in
their
examinations
of
these
points
which
support
two
tales,
the
existence
of
vital
thematic
and
links
between
the
two
sto-
ironic
well
as
as
surprising
ties
ries,
earth—
a
theory
orig-
formulated
by John
Cleves
in
his
novel,
Symzonia:
A
Discovery
first
pub-
of
lished
in
1820
under
the
pen
name
Seaborn.
Adam
hollow
,
,
Symmes'
Like
Pym
and
Madness
novel
is
written
in
a
journalistic
to
relate
purporting
the
events
that
occurred
on
a
voyage
the
in
Antarctic.
exploration
of
style,
4
/
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of
Cthulhu
In
the
course
of the
novel,
Symmes
outlines
his
theory
of
a
hollow
earth,
with
openings
to
the
interior
located
at
the
poles.
Symmes
pos-
tulated
that
there
was
a
vast
un-
derground
tunnel
in
the
earth
through
which
a
mighty
river
flowed,
the
source
of
this
cataract
located
at
the
Antarctic.
The
river
was
believed
to
run
entirely
through
the
earth's
core
to
emerge
again
at
the
opposite
end
of
our
globe—
somewhere
in
the
Arctic.
While
a
student
at
Ohio
Univer-
sity
(the
present
author's alma
mater),
Jeremiah
Reynolds
fell
un-
der
the
spell
of
J.
C.
Symmes
and
dedicated
his
life
to
proving
the
man's
theories.
Reynolds,
after
Symmes
death,
became
the
major
American
supporter
of
the
"hollow
earth"
theory,
and
he
tried
to
in-
terest
the
newly-elected
Jackson
administration
in
funding
an
expe-
dition
to
the
south
polar
regions
in
Poe
and
his
contemporaries.
The
Antarctic
was
a
vast
unex-
plored
region;
who
knew
what
was
there?
There was
much
scientific
speculation
about
the
possibility
of
a
hollow earth,
both
in
the
United
States
and
Europe.
This
idea
of
the
hollow
earth
was
to
endure
in
fantasy
fiction
long
after
the
hy-
pothesis
was
disproved
by
scien-
to
tists.
5
The
exploration
of
this
theory
was
part
of
Poe's
design
when
he
conceived
his
tale
of
Arthur
Cor-
don
Pym's
adventure
in
1838.
Poe
composed
his
tale
in
the
style
of
the
"travelogues"
that
were
so
popular
in
his
day.
Though
Pym
(just
tains
to
was
a
failure
with
the
public
as
Lovecraft's
At
the
Moun
-
of
Madness
was
a
failure
with
an
attempt
to
locate
and
exploit
this
underground
world.
In
his
guest
to
prove
the
earth
was
hollow,
Reynolds
made
several
exploratory
voyages.
On
one
trip
to
the
South
Seas
he
heard
a
story
about
a
strange
white
whale
often
seen
in
those
waters.
The
whale
had
over
a
dozen
harpoons
in
its
back
and
was
said
to
have
killed
thirty
seamen.
When
he
returned
to
civilization
Reynolds
wrote
an
article
called,
"Mocha
Dick:
or
the
White
Whale
of
the
Pacific:
a
Leaf
from
a
Manuscript
Journal."
*
This
article
appeared
in
1839,
and
has
been
cited
by
various
critics
as
a
primary
(but,
as
we
shall
see,
not
the
only)
influence
on
1
M
oby
Dic
k.
was
from
this
same
Jeremiah
Reynolds
that
Edgar
Allan
Poe
first
heard
the
theory
of
the
Ant-
arctic
tunnel
and
the
hollow
earth,
two
concepts
he
utilized
in
The
Narrative
of
Arthur Gordon
Pym
Knowledge
of
the
Symmesian
theory
is
vital
an
understanding
of
to
the
climax
of
Poe's
The
Narrative
of
Arthur
Gordon
Pym
It
must
also
be
remembered
that
the
"hol-
low
earth"
theories
that
sound
ab-
surd
to
us
were
not
so
ridiculous
Melville's
It
Farnsworth
Wright,
who
refused
accept
it
for
publication
in
Weird
Tales
)
the
form
remained
popular,
and
Herman
Melville
was
to
achieve
worldwide
(if
shortlived)
fame
near-
ly
a
decade
later
with
his
reminis-
cences
of
the
South
Sea
islands
told
in
the
very
same
style.
6
Of
course,
Poe's
stated
goal
was
to
compose
a
hoax
for
the
gullible
readers
of
The
Southern
Literary
Messenger
of
which
he
was
then
editor,
and
to
offer
speculations
about
the
Antarctic
and
the
flora
and
fauna
that
might
be
found
there.
Lovecraft
regarded
Poe
as
his
"god
of
fiction."?
He
enjoyed
Poe's
novel
of
the
Antarctic,
most
espe-
cially
the
latter
chapters
wherein
Pym
encounters
the
strange
crea-
tures
and
people
of
the
south
polar
regions.
Both
Poe
and
Lovecraft
were
interested
in
the
rush
of Polar
explorations
going
on
during
their
,
,
N.
lifetimes,
and
both
men
found
Ant-
suitable
to
be
a
for
their
into
the
fantastic.
arctica
board
spring-
respective
leaps
in
his
.
There
published
cate
is,
however,
little
correspondence
to
indi-
that
Lovecraft
held
any
special
.
fondness
for
Herman
Melville's
Moby
Dick
—
he
may
not
have
even
read
it.
If
he
did,
he
may
have
read
it
as
a
child—
as
a
"boys"
book.
He
probably
was
not
aware
that
he

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