Ever since I read my first H.P. Lovecraft story, "The Outsider," nearly nine years ago (my, how time flies), I've wanted to be a horror writer. The desire to write was strengthened in the next several years, as I voraciously read everything by Lovecraft I could get my hands on. I stood in awe of the self-contained mythology he had created around Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, and all the rest, and knew that I wanted to create just such a mythology.

In subsequent years, I began reading authors like Arthur Machen, Robert E. Howard, and Ramsey Campbell--authors that either inspired, were contemporary with, or inspired by Lovecraft. I was more sure than ever that I wanted to be a writer and create my own mythology, but I was stuck at the point of not having one.

Then, after several more years of research on mythology and other areas, I made one of the most fortuitous mistakes ever. I was doing research for a paper I was writing on Nazis and the occult when I came across a reference to Jack Parsons, an occultist. A voice in the back of my head told me that this guy was a suspect in the Black Dahlia killing in Los Angeles, and when I read that Parsons died in a fire in 1952, I was convinced this guy was the suspect.

Of course, he wasn't: the suspect I was remembering was Jack Anderson Wilson, who had a similar name, and did die in a fire before he could be arrested, but wasn't the same person I was thinking. Nevertheless (and once again, fortuitously), I'd recently picked up the Delta Green sourcebook and the rest, as they say, is history. I started checking out anything and everything I could find on Parsons, Crowley, and all the others, and started developing a story.

Although I originally created the myth-cycle concerning Tuchulcha, Lam, and all the rest for my planned Yellow Twilight Darkening campaign, as you know the campaign fell apart and never took form. Which is all for the best--the adventures as written were too linear. I felt, however, that the Mythos was too good a story element to go to waste.

As a result, I'm attempting to write a series of fictional stories--and possibly even a series of novels--based on the events that were to have taken place within the campaign's adventures. At the current time, I'm planning a cyberpunkish mythology dealing with the Tuchulcha stuff in the future.

I'm also toying with the idea of tying Gaea--a world I created that, similarly to Howard's Hyborian Age, is the Earth in the distant past--into the Tuchulcha storylines. It should be easy enough--that has enough Lovecraftian flavor to fit in, and I use some of the same themes.