Darrell Schweitzer produced a respectable small anthology of criticism, Essays Lovecraftian (1976), but it received poor distribution. Also out of the fan community, although professionally published, was Lin Carter’s Lovecraft: A Look Behind the “Cthulhu Mythos” (1972), which made some egregious factual errors and wholly adopted the “Derleth Mythos,” but nevertheless presented an adequate “history” of the mythos,
