創刊号：クトゥルー・インフォメーション【海外篇】

This article was printed in Night Land No. 1, in Japanese translation.

When Edward asked me to write an article about what's new in English language Cthulhu mythos publishing for 2010, for a moment I looked around and thought, 'Who? Me?" My only qualification is that I have been reading Lovecraftian fiction since the early 1970s. In fact there are some striking trends in this genre that are keeping me flummoxed. Thanks to the web of connectivity that is the internet, allowing like minded fans to congregate in hyperspace, and the profusion of small specialty presses as more lumbering publishers are outmaneuvered, there is an absolute profusion of Cthulhu mythos material that defies comprehension. In fact the sheer number of people at least superficially familiar with HPL and his creations is astonishing. It's like I was standing in an empty theater only a few years ago and now I can't find a seat. It would be a daunting task to summarize what's happened in 2011, so I'll satisfy myself by describing some of the better finds this year.