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 Cthulhu the octopoid entity in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Kraken" (1830) and particular passages from Lord Dunsany, while "The Dunwich Cycle" points to the influence of Arthur Machen on Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror."