The Disciples of Cthulhu

The Disciples of Cthulhu
Author	Various
Cover Artist	Karel Thole
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Cthulhu Cycle (Second Revised Edition)
Publisher	DAW Books (First Edition) Chaosium (Second Revised Edition)
Release Date	October 1976 (First Edition) February 1996 (Second Revised Edition)
Pages	288 (First Edition) 258 (Second Revised Edition)

The Disciples of Cthulhu is a Cthulhu Mythos anthology edited by the late American author and editor Edward P. Berglund.

Overview

The first edition of The Disciples of Cthulhu was released in paperback format by DAW Books in 1976. It was edited by Edward P. Berglund, featured cover art by Karel Thole, and ran to a total of 288 pages. This edition was also translated into French (as Les adorateurs de Cthulhu) and German (as Cthulhu's Kinder).

In February 1996, Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium released The Disciples of Cthulhu: Second Revised Edition as part of their Cthulhu Cycle, once again edited by Berglund, but with two of the original stories ("The Feaster from Afar" and "Zoth-Ommog") were removed and replaced (with "Dope War of the Black Tong" and "Glimpses"). This version ran to 258 pages and featured brand new cover artwork by H. E. Fassl, with an interior plate by Earl Geier.

Contents

First Edition

• Editor's Foreword by Edward P. Berglund
• Introduction by Robert Bloch
• "The Fairground Horror" by Brian Lumley
• "The Silence of Erika Zann" by James Wade
• "All-Eye" by Bob Van Laerhoven
• "The Tugging" by Ramsey Campbell
• "Where Yidhra Walks" by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
• "The Feaster from Afar" by Joseph Payne Brennan
• "Zoth-Ommog" by Lin Carter
• "Darkness, My Name Is" by Eddy C. Bertin
• "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber

Second Revised Edition

• Preface to the Revised Edition by Edward P. Berglund
• Preface to the Original Edition by Edward P. Berglund
• Introduction by Robert Bloch
• "The Fairground Horror" by Brian Lumley
• "The Silence of Erika Zann" by James Wade
• "All-Eye" by Bob van Laerhoven
• "The Tugging" by Ramsey Campbell
• "Where Yidhra Walks" by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
• "Glimpses" by A. A. Attanasio
• "Dope War of the Black Tong" by Robert M. Price
• "Darkness, My Name Is" by Eddy C. Bertin
• "The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber

Trivia

• In his preface to the Second Revised Edition, Berglund stated that he believed the first edition to have been "the first professional, all-original, Cthulhu Mythos anthology".
• "Glimpses" by A. A. Attanasio, included in the Second Revised Edition, was originally intended to have been published in the First Edition, but instead found its way into the Arkham House anthology Nameless Places.

Gallery

French edition cover, Les adorateurs de Cthulhu by Tibor Csernus