Nyctalops

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Nyctalops is a fanzine edited by Harry O. Morris and Edward Paul Berglund and published in the 1970's.

Nyctalops is devoted to H.P. Lovecraft and his circle, Charles Ashton Smith, and Robert Bloch. It is a 8.5 X 11" publication of approximately 100 pages that was published in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. The first issue appeared in May 1970. Nyctalops was initially published solely by Morris and consisted of literary criticism. but after issue three he asked Edward Berglund to become fiction editor for the zine and commencing with issue four the fanzine included fiction. The two editors worked together for seven more issues, with nineteen issues released in all.

Contributors included Bernadette Bosky, David J. Brown, Ramsey Campbell, Walter C. DeBill, Jr., Gary Drake, Denise Dumars, Thomas M. Egan, Steve Eng, R. Alain Everts, Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., Donald Sidney-Fryer, Charles Richard Grose, Alan D. Gullette, Gary Harrison, John Jacob, John Koblas, George Laking, James Lawson, Thomas Ligotti, Brian Lumley, Dirk W. Mosig (The Miskatonic), Joe Moudry, Gerald W. Page, Ted Pons, E. Hoffman Price, Graham Pryor, W. Pugmire (Midnight Fantasies, Old Bones), Phyllis Rose, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror),Darell Schweitzer, Vernon Shea, James Taylor, Stephen Verba, Bruce Walker, William Wallace, George Wetzel, and Neal Wilgus.

Artists included Mike Garcia, Jim Pitts, Denis Tiani and Helmet Wenske.