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 Michael A. Aquino, Bernadette Bosky, G. Sutton Breiding, David J. Brown, Ramsey Campbell, Walter C. DeBill, Jr., Gary Drake, Denise Dumars, Thomas M. Egan, Steve Eng, R. Alain Everts (The Outsider), Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., Donald Sidney-Fryer, Charles Richard Grose, Alan D. Gullette, Gary Harrison, Don Herron, John Jacob, John Koblas, George Laking, James Lawson, Thomas Ligotti, Brian Lumley, Rob Hollis Miller, Dirk W. Mosig (The Miskatonic), Joe Moudry, Dale Nelson, Gerald W. Page (Si-Fan), Jim Pianfetti, Ted Pons, E. Hoffman Price, Robert M. Price (Crypt of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Codex), Graham Pryor, W. Pugmire (Midnight Fantasies, Old Bones), Glen Rahman, Phyllis Rose, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror), Lewis Sanders, David E. Schultz, Darell Schweitzer, Vernon Shea, Patti Smith, James Taylor, Stephen Verba, Bruce Walker, William Wallace, George Wetzel, Neal Wilgus, and Billy Wolfenbarger.

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

Harry O. Morris also published the apazine Nocturne for the Esoteric Order of Dagon.