# Help me find a list of Cthulhu mythos stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151 "2009-01-27T00:04:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/1 "2009-01-27T00:04:11Z")
Somewhere on the web there must be (some individual’s attempt at) an essential list of Cthulhu Mythos stories. Anyone have link? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/2 "2009-01-27T00:10:07Z")
[List of Cthulhu Mythos stories](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft:_A_Look_Behind_the_Cthulhu_Mythos#List_of_Cthulhu_Mythos_stories) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/3 "2009-01-27T03:49:02Z")
> [@Lin Carter](#): > > He has no ability at all for creating character, or for writing dialogue. His prose is stilted, artificial, affected. It is also very overwritten, verbose, and swimming in adjectives. His plotting is frequently mechanical, and his major stylistic device, which becomes tiresome, is the simple trick of withholding the final revelation until the terminal sentence–and then printing it in italics, presumably for maximum shock value. (sigh) Yeah, you have to go to the later stories by his acolytes (Derleth, Howard Carter–no, not him, Bloch, etc) to find Mythos writers who can WRITE, but I’ve grown fond of ol’ HP, flaws and all. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/4 "2009-01-27T07:42:10Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Derleth…can WRITE :dubious: (IMO: good anthologist, lousy writer) **TGWATY** , are you looking for just the stories written by HPL, or later pastiches as well? There’s about a zillion of 'em, few of which are actually worth reading. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/5 "2009-01-27T11:37:44Z")
[Here’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_anthology) a list of Cthulhu Mythos anthologies, which will probably contain a great deal of the stories related to the mythos. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/6 "2009-01-27T17:37:41Z")
Here is a link to Chaosium’s “Call of Cthulhu” fiction: [http://www.chaosium.com/callofcthulhu/cocfiction\_list.html](http://www.chaosium.com/callofcthulhu/cocfiction_list.html) ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/7 "2009-01-29T16:22:15Z")
Thank you all for replying. I almost forgot I posted this. > [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > **TGWATY** , are you looking for just the stories written by HPL, or later pastiches as well? There’s about a zillion of 'em, few of which are actually worth reading. Later pastiches. But I don’t want a zillion. Just a list from someone knowledgeable as to which are the good ones. E.g, Return of the Lloigor by Colin Wilson is good. I’ve read everything by Lovecraft and I want more. ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/8 "2009-01-29T16:28:22Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > [Here’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_anthology) a list of Cthulhu Mythos anthologies, which will probably contain a great deal of the stories related to the mythos. This is good. Thanks. I’ll probably use this as my guide if nothing else comes along. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-list-of-cthulhu-mythos-stories/483151/9 "2009-01-29T16:57:06Z")
You won’t want to miss that Cthulhu mythos story written by, of all people, Jorge Luis Borges. 😃 I believe it is titled “There Are More Things” and it can be found in _The Book of Sand_: [http://www.amazon.com/Book-Sand-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/0525475400](http://www.amazon.com/Book-Sand-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/0525475400)