If you want to join today’s video chat at 6pm EST, email me at michaeldaviswriter@gmail.com . If you want to watch it live, then go to www.lovecraftzine.com at that time, and click play on the Youtube video there.

Today’s video chat is with the (in?) famous Robert M. Price. Dr. Price is an American theologian and writer. He teaches philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus, including Deconstructing Jesus (2000), The Reason Driven Life (2006), Jesus is Dead (2007), Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority (2009), and The Case Against the Case for Christ (2010).

As editor of the journal Crypt of Cthulhu (published by Necronomicon Press) and of a series of Cthulhu Mythos anthologies, Price has been a major figure in H. P. Lovecraft scholarship and fandom for many years. In essays that introduce the anthologies and the individual stories, Price traces the origins of Lovecraft’s entities, motifs, and literary style. The Cthulhu Cycle, for example, saw the origins of the octopoid entity in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Kraken” and particular passages from Lord Dunsany, while The Dunwich Cycle points to the influence of Arthur Machen on Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”.

Price’s religious background often informs his Mythos criticism, seeing gnostic themes in Lovecraft’s fictional god Azathoth and interpreting “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” as a kind of initiation ritual.

(Text from his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Price )

Dr. Price runs The Bible Geek, a broadcast show that allows people to ask the Bible Geek questions that he will answer:

http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/biblegeek.php

Just kidding about the infamous thing, Bob…