Deities & Demigods

The 1980 Deities & Demigods with the Cthulhu and Melnibonéan mythoi The famous version of this AD&D hardcover is the 144-page original, which includes gods from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and Michael Moorcock's Melnibonéan stories. Those sections were dropped from the third and later printings for legal reasons, which cut the book to 128 pages, and that is why the early copies became a collector's legend. Both of the first two printings contain the mythoi. They differ in one detail: the second adds a credit to Chaosium, which the first lacks. Counting the pages is the quickest test, and the Erol Otus cover is a pleasure either way.