The Scroll of Thoth
Richard Tierney is known for his weird poetry, his heroic fantasy in the tradition of Robert E. Howard, and a critical essay in which he emphasizes the role of August Derleth in elaborating the Cthulhu Mythos. He has a sophisticated take on how to write fiction based on the H. P. Lovecraft Mythos, tapping into Lovecraft's Gnostic tendencies as well as his cosmic nihilism.
The 12 tales in this collection feature Simon Magus, the famous heretic and Gnostic from the early days of Christianity. Magus meets up with Shub-Niggurath (the evil goddess), searches for the Ring of Set, and has several other dark adventures. Tierney is a fine writer with a special gift for evocative descriptions of place, and he puts more effort into characterization than is typical for modern Mythos stories.
The series
1981Mysteries of the Worm 
1988Shadows Over Innsmouth 
1990The Antarktos Cycle: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Chilling Tales 
1992Black Forbidden Things: Cryptical Secrets from the Crypt of Cthulhu 
1994The Shub Niggurath Cycle: She Who Is to Come 
1994Cthulhu's Heirs 
1995The Book of Iod: The Eater of Souls & Other Tales 
1995The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait 
1995The Azathoth Cycle: The Blind Idiot God 
1995Made in Goatswood: New Tales of Horror in the Severn Valley 
1996The Cthulhu Cycle: Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror 
1996The Necronomicon 
1996The Disciples of Cthulhu 
1997The Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousand Forms 
1997Singers of Strange Songs: Eleven New Tales of Horror 
1997The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter 
1997The Scroll of Thoth 
1998The Complete Pegāna 
1998The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones 
1998Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon 
1998The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-walker of the Icy Wastes: 14 Tales 
1999The Book of Eibon 
2002The Tsathoggua Cycle: Terror Tales of the Toad God 
2003The Disciples of Cthulhu II: Blasphemous Tales of the Followers 
2007Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World 
2007The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson: Horripilating Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 
2008The Klarkash-Ton Cycle 
2009Cthulhu's Dark Cults 
2011Eldritch Evolutions Be the first reviewer
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