Cover Art by Wolfius [illustration]

Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price [editorial]

Baring-Gould and the Ghouls: The Influence of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages on “The Rats in the Walls” by Steve Mariconda [essay]

Lovecraft’s Ghouls by Will Murray [essay]

Has Kadath Been Sighted? by Richard L. Tierney [essay]

Swamp Call by Brian Lumley [poetry]

A Letter on the Lovecraft Mythos by Pierre de Caprona

Lovecraft Typo! [notice]

Unpronounceable Update [essay]

Contra Capronam by Lin Carter

Lovecraft as I Seem to Remember Him by F. Gumby Kalem (Robert M. Price) [fiction]

Making a Friend of Horror by Charles Hoffman [essay]

Crypt-O-Cthulhu-Gram by Carol Selby (Carol Selby Price) [puzzle]

Some Stray Bits of Lovecraftiana by Darrell Schweitzer [essay]

Fantasy Gaming for Lovecraftians: “The Call of Cthulhu” by Sam Gafford [essay]

Fun Guys from Yuggoth [essay]

On Reading Lovecraft by C. J. Henderson [essay]

Crypt-O-Cthulhu-Gram Solution by Carol Selby (Carol Selby Price) [puzzle]

R’lyeh Review [review]

Horrors and Unpleasantries (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983) by Sheldon Jaffery; reviewed by Ronald Shearer

Collected Poems: Nightmares and Visions (Arkham House, 1981) by Richard L. Tierney; reviewed by S. T. Joshi

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth (Chaosium, Inc.) by Sandy Petersen; reviewed by Scott D. Briggs

Advice to the Lovecraft-lorn by Donna Death (Donna Tod) [fiction]

Mail-Call of Cthulhu [letter]

Letter by Karl Edward Wagner

Letter by Gahan Wilson

Letter by Fritz Leiber

Letter by Frank Belknap Long

Letter by L. Sprague deCamp

Letter by Ben Indick

Letter by S. T. Joshi

Letter by Patrice de G. Joubert

Letter by William Fulwiler

Letter by Ronald Shearer

Next Time . . . [essay]