Editing Lin Carter (section)

==Posthumous collaborations with Howard and Smith==

Some of Carter's most prominent works were what he referred to as "posthumous collaborations" with deceased authors, notably [[Robert E. Howard]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]]. He completed a number of Howard's unfinished tales of [[Kull of Atlantis|Kull]] (see [[Kull (collection)]])<ref>"Lin Carter on Kull". ''Savage Sword of Conan'' No 3 (Dec 1974). Online at: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140427010930/http://www.gwthomas.org/lincarteronkull.htm]</ref> and [[Conan the Barbarian]], the latter often in collaboration with [[L. Sprague de Camp]]. He also collaborated with de Camp on a number of [[pastiche]] [[novel]]s and [[short stories]] featuring Conan.

The "posthumous collaborations" with Smith were of a different order, usually completely new stories built around title ideas or short fragments found among Smith's notes and jottings. A number of these tales feature Smith's invented book of forbidden lore, the [[Book of Eibon]] ([[Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature]]). Some of them also overlap as pastiches of H.P. Lovecraft's work by utilising elements of Lovecraft's [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. These stories are uncollected. For further information see Steve Behrends, "The Carter-Smith Collaborations" in [[Robert M. Price]] (ed). ''The Horror of it All: Encrusted Gems from the Crypt of Cthulhu''. See also [[Xothic legend cycle|Lin Carter deities]].