"Good to see Nightjar surfacing at long last. However, before anyone gets too excited about the rest, this won't be the complete Yuggoth Cultures book by any means. Yuggoth Cultures was what The Courtyard and other pieces were from originally, a book of fiction and non-fiction pieces based around Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth sonnet cycle that was Alan's take on the Cthulhu Mythos. The reason it didn't appear as scheduled from Creation Books is because Alan left the only copy of the MS in a London taxi on November 5th 1993. I can be precise about this as I met him in a pub shortly after, with James from Creation and some other people. He was supposed to be reading from some of the stories in a Soho club that evening and had to get the early chapters of Voice of the Fire from the Gollancz offices instead. Alan was understandably aggrieved at this and so was I since I'd done a cover painting for the book and was set to provide illustrations as well. My cover painting can be seen here.Posted by mute at June 24, 2003 08:07 AM"Two short pieces--Recognition and Zaman's Hill--were published in the Creation reader, Dust, in 1995. There are 36 sonnets in Lovecraft's original cycle so you can work out for yourself how much of Alan's work we've missed with the loss of this. Theoretically the original manuscript could still be out there somewhere but it's more likely to be sleeping with Cthulhu by now."