MYTHOLOG Literature of Mythic Proportions was a quarterly digital publication described as a collection of stories and poems, essays and reviews, writers and editors, illustrations and artists, that found myth in places odd and ordinary. It ran from 2002 to 2007. The masthead listed the Editor-in-Chief as Asher Black.[1]
MYTHOLOG was agnostic as to genre, provided the material had some connection with mythic (not necessarily mythological) concepts.
It published essays such as The Door to the Imaginal Realm by Mary Pat Mann.[2] which was referenced in the book Alien Encounters by Patricia D. Netzley.[3]
It was listed as a flash fiction market in Flash Fiction Flash Newsletter.[4]
Genres included horror, such as The Cabin at the Top of the World by Mark Allan Gunnells, mentioned in the book 11 Classic Short Stories to Read by the Winter Fireplace.[5]
It published erotic fiction as cited in the book Eternally Noir, 2005 from Logical-Lust Publications.[6]
It also included religious poetry as mentioned in Joyce Lexicography Volume Fifteen, 2012 from Bucharest: Contemporary Literature Press.[7] which is an imprint of The University of Bucharest, and has been cited in other academic publications such as 100 Papers: An Anthology of Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry with a Theoretical Postscript, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.[8]
MYTHOLOG was listed in several magazine market lists, including Ralan and Spicy Green Iguana, as well as Speculative Literature Foundation.[9] It was listed in the book Get Your Articles Published by Lesley Bown and Ann Gawthorpe, McGraw-Hill 2010.[10]
Various private collections of ezines, digital publications, and other writer venues also listed MYTHOLOG as being open to submissions from interested writers.[11]
MYTHOLOG was a launchpad for a number of aspiring authors such as Christie Maurer (1937-2016),[12] and is mentioned in her obituary.[13]
A number of authors had early publications in MYTHOLOG.[14]
Bruce Holland Rogers, whose books include: Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams, Word Work: Surviving and Thriving As a Writer, and Flaming Arrows.
Marsheila Rockwell was nominated for the 2006 Rhysling Award from The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) for the poem "Fairy Tale Ending" (MYTHOLOG, Vol.3 No.3). She is author of Legacy of Wolves, Wizards of the Coast, 2007.
Danny Adams is winner of a place in The 2006 Rhysling Anthology for "Utnapishtim on Friday After Dessert". He is co-author, with Philip Jose Farmer, of the short science fiction novel The City Beyond Play, September 2007.
Jacqueline West is author of Cherma, poetry series, published by the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Parallel Press Chapbook Series in 2010.
Gerri Leen's work appears in anthologies like Sails & Sorcery: Nautical Tales of Fantasy and multiple Star Trek: Strange New Worlds editions.
Elizabeth Barrette is author of fourteen poems and one story in MYTHOLOG. She received a 2005 Rhysling nomination. She is Assistant Editor of SageWoman. Her work appears in the anthology The Impossible Will Take a Little While.
Lisa Agnew: Her first novel is Sword: Tales from the Green Sahara and Casual Soup.
Elizabeth Thomas Wenning is author of Confessions of a Mixed-up Weasel Hater.
Terry Dartnall, Brian Ames, and J.R. Cain are each authors of several anthologies of short work, including work originally appearing in MYTHOLOG.
Jerry J. Davis is responsible for the book Travels and has been included in the anthology Houston: We've got Bubbas!
Stewart Sternberg has work published in High Seas Cthulhu, an anthology of nautical Lovecraftian horror.
Robert Rhodes is a co-author of The Sword in the Mirror: A Century of Sword & Sorcery, in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Contemporary Popular American Literature.