Robert M. Price, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing scholarly articles and humorous pieces on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1981. He was prominent in Lovecraft fandom till getting excommunicated for being Politically Incorrect. He has compiled Mythos anthologies for Arkham House, Fedogan & Bremer, Chaosium, and others. He serves as editor for Crypt of Cthulhu, Eldritch Tales, and Lin Carter's Flashing Swords. His fiction has been collected in Blasphemies and Revelations and Horrors and Heresies.

Exham Priory will soon be issuing his five-volume annotated edition of the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.