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 David J. Brown, Ramsey Campbell, Walter C. DeBill, Jr., Gary Drake, Denise Dumars, R. Alain Everts, Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., Donald Sidney-Fryer, John Koblas, Thomas Ligotti, Dirk W. Mosig (The Miskatonic), Joe Moudry, E. Hoffman Price, Graham Pryor, W. Pugmire (Old Bones), Jessica Amanda Salmonson (The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror),Darell Schweitzer, Vernon Shea, James Taylor, Bruce Walker, and George Wetzel.

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