As editor of the journal Crypt of Cthulhu[REF] (published by Necronomicon Press) and of a series of Cthulhu Mythos anthologies,[REF][REF][REF] Price has been a major figure in H. P. Lovecraft scholarship and fandom for many years [REF].
Price's religious background often informs his Mythos criticism, seeing gnostic themes in Lovecraft's fictional god Azathoth[REF] and interpreting "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" as a kind of initiation ritual [REF].