The Scroll of Thoth

Call of Cthulhu Fiction

The Scroll of Thoth

Richard L. Tierney

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1997

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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.

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Mysteries of the Worm Shadows Over Innsmouth The Antarktos Cycle: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Chilling Tales Black Forbidden Things: Cryptical Secrets from the Crypt of Cthulhu The Shub Niggurath Cycle: She Who Is to Come Cthulhu's Heirs The Book of Iod: The Eater of Souls & Other Tales The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait The Azathoth Cycle: The Blind Idiot God Made in Goatswood: New Tales of Horror in the Severn Valley The Cthulhu Cycle: Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror The Necronomicon The Disciples of Cthulhu The Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousand Forms Singers of Strange Songs: Eleven New Tales of Horror The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter The Scroll of Thoth The Complete Pegāna The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-walker of the Icy Wastes: 14 Tales The Book of Eibon The Tsathoggua Cycle: Terror Tales of the Toad God The Disciples of Cthulhu II: Blasphemous Tales of the Followers Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson: Horripilating Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos The Klarkash-Ton Cycle Cthulhu's Dark Cults Eldritch Evolutions
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About the author

Richard L. Tierney

Richard L. Tierney (born 1936) is an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft. He is the coauthor (with David C. Smith) of a series of Red Sonja novels, featuring cover art by Boris Vallejo. Some of his standalone novels utilize the mythology of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

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