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The legendary eight-sided artifact Dagon’s Octangle which reportedly sank aboard the Spanish vessel La Maria de Patache after the invasion of the English Channel by the Spanish Armada has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula under water in the Chicxulub event crater by the crew of the SS Telemachus under the supervision of Professor Dedrick Laban formerly of Essex County, MA. The patache was a small rescue vessel dispatched to find the lost Spanish Armada supply ship Nuestra de los Axarquia lost at sea by the same freak August storm which destroyed Spain’s Grande y Felisima Armada in August of 1588.

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More On Robert M. Price

There was a huge debate when August Derleth was still alive about whether or not the Cthulhu Mythos paralleled Christianity. Derleth’s steadfast insistence that this was true splintered the 50s and 60s writers of Mythos fiction and literally drove many of them away.

Price has led the reconciliation since Derleth’s death by stating that even though August Derleth was wrong by bending the facts toward his opinion, his heart was in the right place for keeping the Lovecraftian traditions alive. As a Biblical expert Robert Price could see where Derleth was pounding square peg concepts into round hole theories. He has several essays showing where even though that vision wasn’t really true to Lovecraft, it provided some very interesting (if wrong) stories and concepts.

His scholarship and examination of the minutia is almost scary.

This is not going to be the definitive work on Robert M. Price, the
ultimate Lovecraft scholar. For one thing the man is so brilliant
that even his short criticisms and scholarly essays would be too long
to list here.

I hope you’re aware of Chaosium Books. Yes, these is the same
Chaosium that puts out the Call Of Cthulhu and other games and holds
gaming rights for much of the Mythos and Mythos oriented trademarks.

Anyway the editor for Chaosiums Lovecraft line is Robert M. Price,
professor, scholar, essayist, critic, and, oh yes, Anglican Minister.
What is this, do you say? A stuffy conservative minister for the C
of E is the world’s most renouned scholar of H.P. Lovecraft, his
followers, disciples, students and wierd cult figures, can that be?

Short answer–yep!

Price has delved into and edited pieces devoted to Mythos deities and
demons: such unpronouncable names as Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Shub
Nigguarth, and Cthulhu himself. He’s also edited books by noted
mythos authors: Brian Lumley, Henry Kuttner, Ramsey Campbell, Richard
Tierney, and uhh…that H.P. Lovecraft guy.

You could do far worse than to look into Price’s work whether his
criticism, his editing, or his fiction (as few and far between as his
works seems to be). Is it worth your time?

In my humble opinion–absolutely!

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