Myrddin

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Myrddin was a fanzine edited by Lawson W. Hill published by Myrddin Press in Northbrook, Illinois, U.S.A.

Myrddin was focused on fantasy, science fiction and the supernatural in the form of fiction, poetry, art, and articles. The first two issues were published in 1975, and the third in 1976. The fourth issue was published in Chicago, Illinois in 1978. The fifth issue appeared in 1980.

Contributors included Martin Bickman, Joseph Payne Brennan (Macabre), Ramsey Campbell, Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., T.E.D. Klein, Lois Larson, Fritz Leiber, Dirk W. Mosig, H. Warner Munn, Keith Richmond, Jessica Salmonson, Darrell Schweitzer and Richard L. Tierney.

Contributions of artwork were by A.B. Cox, Patricia Gehrmann, Lawson Hill, Lance Howlett, Jim McLeod, Phil Normand, and Jim Pitts.

Issue three centered on the 1st World Fantasy Convention, with seven pages of photos of the antendees. and H. P. Lovecraft. This issue came complete with a white envelope on the inside back cover containing a flexisdisc (or soundsheet) recording of Robert Bloch speaking on one side and Frank Belknap Long on the other, both men guests of honor at the convention.