• and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lovecraft parody)...
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  • The Xothic legend cycle is a series of short stories by American writer Lin Carter that are based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, primarily on...
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  • Howard's death by such later writers as Poul Anderson, Leonard Carpenter, Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Roland J. Green, John C. Hocking, Robert Jordan,...
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  • Bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction writer Lin Carter: The Thief of Thoth (1968) The Purloined Planet (1969) Outworlder (1971) The...
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    Joshi, and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. Lin Carter called it "an absolute masterpiece, probably the single greatest book...
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  • the husband-and-wife team of Ian and Betty Ballantine, and edited by Lin Carter, it featured cover art by illustrators such as Gervasio Gallardo, Robert...
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    are the primary focus of a "posthumous collaboration" short story by Lin Carter after Clark Ashton Smith's death, The Scroll of Morloc (First published...
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  • publish alongside the originals, working with Björn Nyberg and especially Lin Carter. These new stories were created from a mixture of already-complete Howard...
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  • Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6 is an anthology of fantasy stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Robert M. Price. It was first published...
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    the reference Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers by L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter notes that the heritage of sword and sorcery is illustrious, and can be...
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    their own grimoires to the literary arcana), including August Derleth, Lin Carter, Brian Lumley, Jonathan L. Howard, and Ramsey Campbell. He must meet the...
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    Scribner's, 1985. ISBN 0-684-17808-7 Lin Carter, ed. Realms of Wizardry p 2 Doubleday and Company Garden City, NY, 1976 Lin Carter, ed. Kingdoms of Sorcery, p...
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  • heavily influenced by the style of James Branch Cabell. Fantasy historian Lin Carter has noted several probable lasting influences of Cabell on Vance's work...
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    Price was appointed executor of Lin Carter's literary estate. In 2020, an inflammatory introduction he wrote to Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! 6 anthology...
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  • ISBN 0313329516, (p.401-404). Lin Carter, ed. Kingdoms of Sorcery, p 121–2. Doubleday and Company Garden City, NY, 1976. Carter, Lin, ed. (January 1976). Kingdoms...
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    Atlantis" 1967 King Kull Story Originally an untitled story, title created by Lin Carter. "The Skull of Silence" 1967 King Kull Story Also known as "The Screaming...
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    mentioned in the Mars series. Moreover, the Jandar of Callisto series by Lin Carter and the Dray Prescot series by Alan Burt Akers owe a great deal to Burroughs's...
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    as one of the Lovecraft stories "that achieve a memorable nastiness". Lin Carter called "Rats" "one of the finest stories of Lovecraft's entire career...
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  • Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne As the Green Star Rises by Lin Carter Asgard series by Brian Stableford namely, Asgard's Secret, Asgard's Conquerors...
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  • debuted in Lin Carter's short story "The Acolyte of the Flame" (1985)—although the being was first mentioned in an earlier tale by Carter, "The Horror...
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    Scribner's, 1985. ISBN 0-684-17808-7 Lin Carter, ed. Realms of Wizardry p 2 Doubleday and Company Garden City, NY, 1976 Lin Carter, ed. Kingdoms of Sorcery, p...
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  • collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the sixteenth...
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  • character in a series of sword-and-sorcery novels and stories written by Lin Carter, stylized after Conan the Barbarian and set in ancient Lemuria. The character...
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    appears in numerous Cthulhu mythos stories, including many written by Lin Carter in his Xothic legend cycle. The 1970 Mu Revealed is a humorous spoof by...
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  • Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter is a collection of horror short stories by science fiction and fantasy author Lin Carter, edited by Robert M. Price...
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    River of Night's Dreaming"), Joseph S. Pulver ("Carl Lee & Cassilda"), Lin Carter, James Blish, Michael Cisco ("He Will Be There"), Ann K. Schwader, Robert...
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    reprinted in the November 1938 issue of Weird Tales after Lovecraft's death. Lin Carter described "The Nameless City" as "a trivial exercise in Poe-esque gothica"...
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  • sufficiently different in execution to create a continuing and growing demand". Lin Carter later wrote that Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos "marked the beginning of...
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    to Lin Carter, who interested a publisher, Zebra Books, in the project. The result was a series of four paperback anthologies, edited by Lin Carter, appearing...
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  • taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lin Carter published (1984) a fantasy novel with the same title (ISBN 978-1-4344-9797-0)...
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