A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson

"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story written in 1917 by horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in the September 1917 issue of the United Amateur, under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq.

Abbith

A planet that revolves around seven stars behind Xoth. It is inhabited by metallic brains, wise with the ultimate secrets of the universe. Nyarlathotep dwells or is imprisoned on this planet.

Abdul Alhazred

Abdul Alhazred, or the Mad Arab, is a recurring character in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. He is frequently cited as the author of the fabled Necronomicon, an occult text containing knowledge from beyond the Earth.

Abholos

Abholos (Devourer in the Mist) a great, grey, festering glob of endless malevolence. Although not confirmed he is said to either be a lesser brother of Tsathoggua, or a spawn of Cthulhu, born from his bile and tears.

Abhoth

Abhoth ("The Source of Uncleanliness") resides in the cavern of Y'quaa beneath Mount Voormithadreth. It is a horrid, dark gray protean mass and is said to be the ultimate source of all miscreation and abomination.

Abraham Merritt

Abraham Merritt (January 20, 1884 – August 21, 1943), who published under the byline A. Merritt, was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction.Born in New Jersey, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894. Originally trained in law,

Abyss of Yhe

The Abyss of Yhe is the location where the Elder Gods imprisoned Ythogtha, son of Cthulhu.

Adaedu

Adaedu is an Elder God. Little is known about this Elder God.

Adolphe de Castro

Adolphe Danziger De Castro, also known as Gustav Adolf Danziger, Adolph Danziger, Adolphe Danziger and Adolphe De Castro, (November 6, 1859 – March 4, 1959) was a Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer and author of poems, novels and short stories.

Adumbrali

Adumbrali (The Living Shadows) creatures that appear as shadows that dwell in the Abyss and send out Seekers to capture souls for them to torture and devour. They are so named in the Song of Yste . Cf. Old Ones.

Aihai

Intelligent beings that live on Mars.

Aiueb Gnshal

Aiueb Gnshal (The Eyes Between Worlds) is a mysterious Outer God which has made his home in a long lost temple in Bhutan. He appears as a formless black void with seven orb-like eyes. It is mainly worshipped by Ghouls who worship him in a defiled cult spo

Aklo language

The Aklo language is a fictional language system which appeared in Arthur Machen's short story The White People. H.P. Lovecraft used the Aklo in a number of his stories, most notably The Dunwich Horror and The Diary of Alonzo Typer. It appears as a k

Alala

Alala (Herald of S'glhuo) is an entity who is composed of living sound native to the Gulf of S'glhuo. He manifests as a huge, monstrous being. He is served and worshipped by the Denizens of S'glhuo, who are composed of the same substance.

Albino Penguin

The Albino Penguins (Aptenodytes albus) are a fictional species of penguin which appears in H. P. Lovecraft's 1936 novella At the Mountains of Madness. The narrator, William Dyer, describes them as standing six-feet-tall, making them larger than even

Aldebaran

Aldebaran (The Eye of the Bull) is the star of the Great Old One Hastur. It lies in the constellation of Taurus, near the Pleiades. Hastur inhabits the Lake of Hali on a planet circling a dark star near Aldebaran which may be connected with Marion Zimmer

Alert

The Alert is a fictional ship created by H. P. Lovecraft, which makes its only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". It is a heavily armored steam yacht which originated in Dunedin, New Zealand, and is manned by "a queer

Ammutseba

Ammutseba (Devourer of Stars) is a shadowy, cloudy mass with great tentacles that it uses to absorb falling stars.

Amon-Gorloth

Amon-Gorloth (Creator of Nile and Universe's Equilibrium) is a colossal mysterious entity whose cult is similar to that of the Egyptian god Amun. Once dwelled in a great palace known as Gz-eh close to the Valley of the Kings. His dreaming force had t

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia is a reference work written by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. It covers the life and work of American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Ancient One

An Ancient One is a humanoid that has squid-like features and exists only partly in the physical, material dimension.

Angstrom

Angstrom is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a member of the Emma of Auburn, although his role is uncertain. After Donovan is successful in openi

Anna Helen Crofts

Anna Helen Crofts (22 December 1889 - 13 April 1975) was a writer, poet and teacher who is best known for her collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft on "Poetry and the Gods". She publish some other short stories in other various amateur press magazi

Ansky

Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863, Vitebsk –1920, Otwock), better known by the pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-ski), was a scholar who documented Jewish folklore and mystical beliefs.

Aphoom-Zhah

Aphoom-Zhah (The Cold Flame) appears similar to Cthugha but cold and grey.

Apocolothoth

Apocolothoth (The Moon-God) is a mysterious lunar entity that dwells in the Dimension of Enno-Lunn.

Arkham

Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft&#

Arkya

Arkya:  1) The central figure in The Annals of Arkya. Apparently it is a god-like eidolon which observes the history of its land, until its destruction at the hands of the Vorklai (Deep Ones?). After this he becomes a vampiric night-creature guarding the

Arwassa

Known as the Silent Shouter on the Hill, Arwassa is described as a humanoid torso but with tendrils instead of limbs, and a short neck that leads to a toothless, featureless mouth. Its thought that this being floats around the hills of the old motes and b

Asenath Waite

Asenath Waite, is a fictional character created by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, appearing in his short story The Thing on the Doorstep.

Ashes

"Ashes" is a horror short story by author H.P. Lovecraft and C. M. Eddy, Jr. It first appeared in the March 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It is one of the few short stories by Lovecraft that has a happy ending.

At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a novel by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February and March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collectio

Atlantis

The lost continent of Atlantis is an ancient civilization on Earth, having been destroyed and sunk beneath the ocean in a cataclysmic event.

Atwood

Atwood is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novel At the Mountains of Madness. He is a member of the Miskatonic University physics department, and also a meteorologist. He is part of the Lake sub-

August Derleth

August William Derleth (February 24 1909 – July 4 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as Howard Phillips Lovecraft's literary executor and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a

Avatar

A concept originating in Hinduism, an avatar (/ˈævəˌtɑr, ˌævəˈtɑr/;[1] Hindustani: [əʋˈt̪aːr] from Sanskrit अवतार avatāra "descent") is a deliberate descent of a deity to Earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being (e.g., Vishnu for Vaishnavites),

Averoigne

Averoigne is a fictional historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith. In the pre-Christian times it was known as Averonia and it's inhabitants were called Averones. Many Great Old One

Ayi'ig

Ayi'ig (The Serpent Goddess) is the daughter of the Great Old One Yig and the Outer Goddess Yidhra. appearing as an octopus-like monstrosity with serpentine eyes and detachable tentacles that move independently. She lives in a cavern within a deep ca

Aylith

Aylith (The Widow in the Woods) is a tall, shadowy humanoid entity with glowing yellow eyes and branch-like protrusions. She is a servant of Shub-Niggurath.

Azathoth

Azathoth, sometimes called "The Blind Idiot God", the "Nuclear Chaos" and the "Daemon Sultan", is an Outer God

Azathoth (short story)

"Azathoth" is a the beginning of a never-completed novel written by American horror fictionwriter H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in June 1922 and published as a fragment in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. It is the fir

B'gnu-Thun

B'gnu-Thun (The Soul-Chilling Ice-God) is the twin brother of Ruhtra Dyoll. He appears as humanoid figure made of ice followed by a eerie blizzard.

B'Moth

B'Moth (The Master) a god of the seas with a world-wide, but little known following. Probably an abbreviation of Beh'-Moth (known as Beh'-Moth the Devourer in the book Monstres & Their Kynde), thence Behemoth, the giant sea monster ment

Baoht Z'uqqa-mogg

Baoht Z'uqqa-mogg (The Bringer of the Pestilence) is a winged scorpion-like monstrosity with a ant-like head. He is worshipped by small conclaves of ghouls.

Barnabas Marsh

Barnabas Marsh, also known as Old Man Marsh, was the grandson of Captain Obed Marsh. Due to his Deep One ancestry, he is functionally immortal as he has the potential of living indefinitely, though he may still be killed through violent means. This herita

Basatan

Basatan, the Master of Crabs, is a sea-god who is described as a gigantic humanoid crab hybrid, and is believed to own a ring connected to the constellation Cancer.

Bast

Bast (Goddess of Cats or Pasht) is a Egyptian goddess of cats and in legend the daughter of Re. Queen of all cats, including those of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus. Also spelt Bubaste and Ubaste. The name is sometimes connected with Sekhmet and linked

Bel Yarnak

A world beyond Betelgeuse and the giant suns on which Iod is worshipped. In fact the planet is unnamed, and Bel Yarnak is the main city, but there is no reason why the planet cannot be name so termed. The city of towers and minarets, the reptilian galaks

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. It would eventually be rereleases in Weird Tales in March of 1938.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep (collection)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories, poems and essays by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1943 and was the second collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkham House. 1

Biological experiment

This article acts as a repository of monsters, and other assorted entities that may not warrant their own article, but are worth recording

Black Book of Azathoth

The Black Book of Azathoth is a text referred to in The Dreams in the Witch-House.

Bokrug

Bokrug, The Great Water Lizard, is a Great Old One.

Book of Eibon

The Book of Eibon, or Liber Ivonis or Livre d'Eibon, is attributed to Clark Ashton Smith. It appears in a number of Lovecraft's stories, such as "The Haunter Of The Dark" (Liber Ivonis), "Dreams in the Witch-House" (Book of E

Book of Iod

A book relating to Iod and its worship, possibly from the planet Bel Yarnak. Its most famous form is a scramble of Greek and Coptic. This text was translated into English at least once, by Johann Nergus. Nergus rigorously excised many fearful matters of w

Boris Hurtta

Boris Hurtta (born 8. December 1945 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish author who is one of main early contributors to Finnish Cthulhu Mythos together with S. Albert Kivinen and others.

Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English horror-fiction writer and a major contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos inventing a number of new Great Old Ones, Elder Gods, Mythos tomes, and mythos locations.

Brown Jenkin

Brown Jenkin is a rat-like creature with a human-like face who is a familiar to the witch Keziah Mason and a secondary antagonist of H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dreams in the Witch-House ".

Bugg-Shash

Bugg-Shash, The Black One, The Filler of Space, or He Who Comes in the Dark, is a gelatinous creature with numerous human-like eyes and mouths covering its body. It attacks its prey by wrapping around them and drowning them in slime, often multiple people

Byakhee

Byakhee are interstellar predators that travel the vacuum of space by means of an organ called a "hune". This organ, located in the thorax of the creature, allows the creature to greatly surpass the speed of light by unknown means. The creature

Byatis

Byatis , The Berkeley Toad or the Serpent-Bearded Byatis appears as a gigantic, multicolored toad with a single eye, claws similar to a crabs and a beard of tentacles.

C'thalpa

C'thalpa (The Internal One) is an Outer God described as a huge mass of living, sentient magma, located in Earth’s mantle. She is the mother of the Great Old One Shterot and other five unnamed hideous children. She served by a race of mole-like human

C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who most often used the pen name C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in either genre (though earlier woman writers in these genr

Call of Cthulhu (Role-Playing Game)

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as CoC, is published by Chaosium. The game was first released in 1981, and eighteen

Canfield, Simon

Member of the 3-man fishing party, along with Carr, Peter B. and Richmond, John, responsible for dragging a 360-pound metallic rock ashore after it crashed into the water off the coast of Potowonket, Maine. The object fell from the sky on Wednesday, Augus

Cards of Cthulhu, a deck building game

Cards of Cthulhu, a deck building gameis a horror fiction deck building card game based on the H. P. Lovecraft stories. The game is published by Duel Grounds. It will be released in 2016 with a Kickstarter campaign to precede and fund the initial publishi

Carnivorous fish

Castro

Castro is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu".

Cats from Saturn

In the Dreamlands, the planet Saturn is populated by a race of strange cats, who occasionally travel to the dark side of Earth's moon. They are enemies of the cats of Earth.

Cave beast

Cave beasts are a species of humanoid creatures in the Cthulhu mythos.

Celaeno (disambiguation)

Celaeno may refer to one of the two following articles:

Celaeno (star)

One of the stars of the Pleiades, between Alcyne and Electra on one side, and Maia and Taygeta on the other. The name comes from Greek mythology, where Celaeno is one of the three harpies (the name means “snatcher”)

Celephaïs

"Celephaïs" is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow.

Chaosium

Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which was later reworked to become Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods. White Bear

Charles le Sorcier

Charles le Sorcier is an Alchemist and antagonist in The Alchemist. After his father was murdered wrongfully murdered by the ancestor or Count Antoine de C-, he cursed the family line, stating that no member in Comte de C- bloodline would be any older tha

Chaugnar Faugn

Chaugnar Faugn (Horror from the Hills) is a vampiric elephant-like humanoid horror with a leech-like mouth on the end of his trunk. When he hungers, Chaugnar moves very quickly for its size and uses its trunk to drain the blood from its victims, hence his

Chthonians

Chthonians (/ˈθoʊniənz/; from Greek: chthon, "earth") are massive burrowing worm-like creatures. The species is the creation of Brian Lumley and was first featured in his short story "Cement Surroundings" (1969)—though the creature nev

Church of Starry Wisdom

The Church of Starry Wisdom, or Starry Wisdom Cult, is a cult that worships Nyarlathotep in his aspect as the Haunter of the Dark. The cult was founded in Providence, Rhode Island circa 1844 by Professor Enoch Bowen, a renowned archeologist and occultist.

Clark Ashton Smith

"Clark Ashton Smith" (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Love

Clark Ashton Smith deities

Atlach-Nacha (The Spider God) superficially resembles a giant hairy spider with a hideous, vaguely human face. He came from Saturn with Tsathoggua. He dwells underground (in Mount Voormithadreth) and spends his æons spinning a weird web. One legend claims

Coatlicue

Coatlicue (The Serpent Skirted One) A gigantic reptilian humanoid with Two snakings in place of a head. She was a former mate of Yig, and is revered K'n-yan along with her consort.

Coinchenn

Coinchenn is a marine tentacled horror made of fish, whale, and octopus-like features.

Collins

Collins is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is the captain of the Emma of Auburn. En route to Callao, the Emma encounters the heavily armored steam

Colour Out of Space

The Colour Out of Space was an extraterrestrial force or entity featured in H.P. Lovecraft's tale of the same name. It arrived on Earth via meteorite, and infected a large swath of Arkham, Massachusetts that would subsequently become known as the &qu

Comte d'Erlette

"Comte d'Erlette" is the title of a French aristocrat and the fictional author of "Cultes des Goules", inspired by the ancestral form of Mythos author August Derleth's name. The fictional writer is first mentioned in Robert B

Cool Air

"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft , written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery .

Count Antoine de C-

Count Antoine de C-- is the last member of a line of the noble Comtes de C-- and protagonist in The Alchemist.  His last name is not revealed in the story, with only the first letter.  His family was cursed after an ancestor wrongly accused and murdered t

Crom Cruach

Crom Cruach (The Bloody Crooked One) is likely a giant worm or dragon-like creature. A god mentioned in Dr.Dee's Necronomicon as a lesser concubine (or facet?) of Shub-Niggurath . Crom Cruach is said to lie under Stonehenge. His cult believe him to b

Crypt of Cthulhu

Crypt of Cthulhu was a fanzine devoted to the writings of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. It was published as part of the Esoteric Order of Dagon for a short time, and was formally established in 1981 by Robert M. Price, who edited it throughout i

Cthaat

Cthaat, The Dark Water God is a Formless mass of shape-shifting water.

Cthaeghya

The half-sister of Cthulhu, she is responsible for spawning the Cthulhi.

Cthugha

Cthugha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction, the creation of August Derleth. He first appeared in Derleth's short story "The House on Curwen Street" (1944).

Cthulhi

The Cthulhi (also known as the "star-spawn of Cthulhu") are a species that have a physical similarity with the Great Old One Cthulhu, but are of far smaller size. They have been known to make war against the Elder Things.

Cthulhu

Cthulhu is a Great Old One of great power that lies in a death-like slumber beneathe the Pacific Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh. He remains a dominant presence in the eldrich dealings on our planet.

Cthulhu Dark

Cthulhu Dark is a rules-light Lovecraftian tabletop role-playing game by Graham Walmsley. Full rules are available for free on the author's website. It has two small supplements, Cthulhu Dark Tales and Dark Depths, also available for free.

Cthulhu Mythos (wikia classifications)

for a full article on the the literary history of the Mythos, see Cthulhu Mythos

Cthulhu Mythos deities

Nameless Mist

Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography

The following Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography is for use with the tables included in the articles List of Cthulhu Mythos deities, List of Cthulhu Mythos species, List of Cthulhu Mythos locations and others. For further expansion of this ar

Cthulhu sandbox

Cthulhu is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos. He is described as an ancient entity of immense power that manipulates the minds of human beings from his sunken island of R'lyeh. He first appears in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu

Cthulhu Wars

Cthulhu Wars is a mythos based board game in which a group of players take control of a Great Old One and their cults and battle for power over a map. The game is usually won by completing the "Doom Track". The game makes extensive use of mythos

Cthylla

Cthylla (The Kraken, The Secret One) is an offspring of Cthulhu and Idh-yaa. She is the daughter of Cthulhu, and is critical to his plans, as should Cthulhu somehow die, Cthylla will give birth to him once again. As such, she is guarded by Deep Ones and Y

Ctoggha

Ctoggha (The Dream-Daemon) is a rather mysterious Great Old One as there is little to nothing known about him. It is likely that he has some connection to dreams or the Dreamlands.

Cultes des Goules

Cultes des Goules, or Cults of Ghouls, is a fictional text created by Robert Bloch (August Derleth claimed to have invented the fictional text, but this was denied by both Lovecraft and Bloch himself). It is a book of black magic written by Francois-Honor

Cxaxukluth

Cxaxukluth (or Ksaksa-Kluth) is a Outer God and is the "son" of Azathoth by spontaneous fission. His progeny are Hziulquoigmnzhah and Ghisguth. He is the grandfather of Tsathoggua.

Cyäegha

Cyäegha is a Great Old One and is characterized by its supreme nihilism and utter contempt for all things. The being appears as a great, black-bodied, green eye surrounded by a mass of tentacles. Cyäegha is served by toad-like monsters known as the Nagäae

Cynothoglys

Cynothoglys, The Mortician God, She Whose Hand Embalms, appears as a formless mound with one arm-like appendage.

Dagon

Dagon is a deity who presides over the Deep Ones, an amphibious humanoid race indigenous to Earth's oceans. He is first introduced in Lovecraft's short story "Dagon", and is mentioned extensively throughout the mythos. Also known as Fa

Dagon (short story)

Dagon is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in July, 1917. It is one of the first stories he wrote as an adult, and was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Later, in October of 1923, Dagon was published in Weird

Dana Shirefield

Dana Anne Shirefield, a medical student and archaeologist from Eddington, Massachusetts.

Danforth

Danforth is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novel At the Mountains of Madness. He is a graduate student at Miskatonic University. As part of the Pabodie Expedition, he accompanies Professor Will

Daoloth

Daoloth (The Render of Veils or The Parter of Veils) dwells in dimensions beyond the three we know. His astrologer-priests are said to be able to see the past and the future and even how objects extend into and travel between different dimensions.

Darkness

The Darkness is an Outer God, and the progenitor of Shub-Niggurath.

De Vermis Mysteriis

This article is about the fictional book in the Cthulhu Mythos, for other uses see Mysteries of the Worm (disambiguation)

Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

An old disabled (deaf, mute, and blind) World War I verteran lives alone in a rural home and faces malevolent forces.

Deep One

The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

Deity

For the Cthulhu Mythos concept of deity and deity classification is particularly confusing and contentious, even among those with a large knowledge of the Cthulhu Mythos. However, a deity within the Mythos can be generally defined as any being, entity, or

Devil's Reef

Devil Reef is an offshore rock formation located in the sea near Innsmouth, Massachusetts.  In 1846 during a sacrificial ritual at the reef Captain Marsh and several members of the Esoteric Order of Dagon were arrested, though no formal charges were made.

Dhumin

Dhumin, The Burrower from the Bluff, is a serpentine earth-shaking monstrosity burrowed under Memphis, USA.

Dimensional Shambler

Dimensional Shamblers are humanoid beings with long claws and rough, leathery skin who have the ability to hop from Dimension to Dimension.

Doel

Doels, “The Space Eaters”. Tiny, flesh-devouring creatures who inhabit an alien dimension shrouded in night and chaos. They have three forms, a mist-like form, an elongated pale limb-like shape, and the brain burrowing parasite form. They attack by burrow

Donovan

Donovan is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a member of the Emma of Auburn, although his role is uncertain. When the crew discovers Cthulhu'

Dr. Muñoz

Character featured in the Lovecraft story Cool Air.

Dream Cycle

The Dream Cycle is a group of stories written by H.P. Lovecraft that deal with a "Dream Realm," a vast, alternate reality that mortals can access through dreams.

Dreams of Yith

Write the first paragraph of your page here. Dreams of Yith, by Duane W. Rimel, who wrote with a fluency Lovecraft never possessed, but was considered derivative of Lovecraft, is an especially exemplary piece of his writing. The extended poetry is a serie

Droom-avista

“The Dweller Beyond”, “The Dark Shining One”, “The Jester”. Not a “little god” but a slumbering Outer God. Droom-avista can grant “wishes” and knows many secrets, but he dislikes being wakened and has a cruel sense of humour, often twisting requests so th

Duane W. Rimel

Duane W. Rimel is an American science fiction, fantasy and erotica writer most well known for his collaborations with American horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

Dunwich Horror (being)

"Some day yew folks'll hear a child o' Lavinny's a-callin' its father on the top o' Sentinel Hill!" - Old Whateley'

Dunwich, Massachusetts

Dunwich is a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is one of America's oldest settlements, with no village in thirty miles even nearing its age. The region has many hills, several of which bear large stone columns of unknown origins. The most recently

Dygra

Dygra, The Stone-Thing is a jewel-covered, geode-like horror with tentacles made of minerals.

Dythalla

Dythalla (Lord of Lizards) is a gigantic reptilian creature, similar to Bokrug, but terrestrial and with a mane of feelers.

Dzéwà

Dzéwà (The White God) is a ravenous plant-god that came from Xiclotl to Earth, awed by the Insects from Shaggai. Appears as a great white orb hiding a enormous magenta excrescence, like and orchid or lamprey mouth with emerald tentacles with tipped with h

E. Hoffmann Price

Edgar Hoffmann Price (July 3, 1898 – June 18, 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled 'fictioneer') for the pulp magazine marketplace. He collaborated with H. P. Lovecraft on "Through the Gates of the Silver Ke

Earth

Earth is the third terrestrial planet in the Sol System. It is the homeworld of humanity, although it has been inhabited and ruled by numerous other species across time, Such as known ones like Neanderthal and Homo-Erectus, it has also  included several u

Eddington

Eddington, a town that was located in Essex County, Massachusetts but in 1956 a fire destroyed the whole town.

Edward Frederic Benson

Edward Frederic Benson (July 24, 1867 – February 29, 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (/dʌnˈseɪni/; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work we

Ei'lor

Ei'lor (The Star-Seed) is a plant-like, parasitic monstrosity living on the jungle planet of Kr'llyand, which orbits a dead, green star.

Eihort

Eihort (The Pale Beast) is a huge, pale, gelatinous, oval-shaped monstrosity covered in myriads of eyes and supported by thousands of bony, fleshless legs.

Elder Gods

The Elder Gods have human-like appearance and they are benevolent in nature. In different parts of the world such as Egypt, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean they were worshipped by ancient humans. Nowadays, they are remembered as the gods in just about

Elder Thing

The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones and Elder Ones) are a fictional species created by H. P. Lovecraft, which make their first appearance in the 1936 novel At the Mountains of Madness. Additional references to the Old Ones appear in Lovecraft&#03

Elder Thing architecture

Elder Thing architecture mimics their five pointed symmetry.It is created by shoggoths.

Eldrich Abomination

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Elysia

The page Elysia can mean two things:

Emma

The Emma is a fictional ship created by H. P. Lovecraft, which makes its only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". It is a two-masted schooner which originated in Auburn, New Zealand, and is manned by eleven crew members. Th

Esoteric Order of Dagon

The Esoteric Order of Dagon is a fictional cult in Innsmouth from Howard Phillips Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Etepsed Egnis

Etepsed Egnis is a formless horrific being with a giant appendage similar to a arm.

Ex Oblivione

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American] horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.

Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" is a short story in the horror fiction genre written by H. P. Lovecraft 1920. The themes of the story are tainted ancestry, knowledge that it would be best to remain unaware of, and a real

Family tree of Azathoth

The following is a list of the descendants of the Outer God Azathoth.

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. The genre is usually associated with the overall look, feel and themes of the European Early Middle Ages (including architecture, dress an

Farnsworth Wright

Farnsworth Wright (1888-1940) was the editor of the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the magazine's heyday.

Flying Polyp

Flying polyps are a race of extraterrestrial creatures. The creature first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time."

Fomalhaut

Fomalhaut (Alpha Piscis Austrini, Alpha PsA, α Piscis Austrini, α PsA) is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the sky. It is a class A star on the main sequence approximately 25 light-years (7.7 pc) f

Formless spawn

The formless spawn are amorphous entities in service to Tsathoggua.

Francis Wayland Thurston

Francis Wayland Thurston is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a Bostonian anthropologist, the grandnephew of George Gammell Angell and the sole he

Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for h

Frank Pabodie

Frank H. Pabodie is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novel At the Mountains of Madness. He is a member of Miskatonic University's engineering department, and the inventor of a drill "un

From Beyond

"From Beyond" is a short story by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10).

Fungi from Yuggoth

Fungi from Yuggoth is a sonnet sequence by supernatural horror writer H. P. Lovecraft that constitute a continuous first-person narrative. It concerns a person who obtains an ancient book of esoteric knowledge that allows one to travel to other planets an

Gary Myers

Gary Myers is an American writer of fantasy and horror. He is a resident of Fullerton, California. His first book, The House of the Worm, was a collection of Cthulhu Mythos stories in the fantasy manner of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany ; it was publish

George Gammell Angell

George Gammell Angell (1834–November 23, 1926) is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu".

Ghadamon

Ghadamon, The Seed of Azathoth, is a bluish- brown, slime-covered horror, with a large malformed head and holes all over his body.

Ghatanothoa

Ghatanothoa (The Dark God) is a Great Old One and the firstborn of Cthulhu spawned by Idh-yaa on the planet Xoth . It is a huge, amorphous monstrosity, whose appearance is so hideous that anyone who gazes upon it (or even a perfect replica) is petrified i

Ghisguth

Ghisguth (or Ghizghuth or Ghisghuth) is the son of Cxaxukluth and the brother of Hziulquoigmnzhah. He is the mate of Zstylzhemghi and the father of Tsathoggua.

Ghoth the Burrower

Ghoth the Burrower is an entity in the Cthulhu Mythos. According to a fictional family tree provided by H.P. Lovecraft, it is a descendant of Cthulhu and an ancestor of Lovecraft himself.

Ghoul

Ghouls are a species of cannibalistic humanoids featured in several of Lovecraft's works.

Ghroth

Ghroth (The Harbinger) resembles a rust-colored moon with a single gigantic red eye that it closes to avoid detection. It drifts throughout the universe while singing its siren song, The Music of the Spheres. Any Great Old Ones or Outer Gods sleeping on a

Gi-Hoveg

Gi-Hoveg is an Outer God with giant spongy flesh and spikes protruding from it's body. It is the arch rival of Uvhash, The Blood Mad God Of The Void.

Giant Bees

Giant Bees are servants of the Great Old One Shub-Niggurath inhabiting the underground city of Harag-Kolath.

Gla'aki

Gla'aki is a Great Old One and dwells in a lake in the Severn Valley near Brichester in England (though he has been reported in other lakes around the world).

Gleeth

Gleeth (The Blind God of the Moon) is a eyeless and deaf lunar entity and is worshiped by the residents of the ancient continent of Theem'dra as well as in the Dreamlands. He is very similar to Mnomquah, though they are not related.

Gloon

Gloon, the Corrupter of Flesh, Master of the Temple, is described as great slug-like abomination, though it usually takes the form of a Dionysian statue.

Gnoph-keh

Sharp-horned, coarse haired beings with six long-limbs, found in Greenland, and the Arctic Circle (possibly other other cold regions and the planet Borea?). Empowered with blizzard summoning and reducing temperatures. Connected with Rhan-Tegoth (whom they

Gnophkeh

A pair of gnophkeh from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle. Not to be confused with the non-humanoid and similarly named Gnoph-keh, these brutish humanoids are enemies of both the voormis and early Hyperborean human tribes. The description of the

God of the Red Flux

A vaporous red entity haunting the rainforest of Central Africa. It has the power to turn humans into zombie-like servants, the Tree-Men of M'bwa.

Gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath

The Gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath are former worshippers of the Outer God Shub-Niggurath. They have been transformed into satyr-like beings, and gifted with immortality.

Gol-Goroth

Gol-goroth (The Forgotten Old One) appears as a titanic, black toad-like monstrosity with a impossibly malevolent glare, or a tentacle covered, scaly, bat-winged entity. However, its physical form may alter to fit the worst nightmares of whoever is viewin

Great Old Ones

The Great Old Ones are a group of unique, malignant beings of great power. They reside in various locations on Earth, and once presided over the planet as gods and rulers.

Great Ones

The Great Ones are the so-called "gods" of The Dreamlands, but they are not as powerful as The Great Old Ones and are not even as intelligent as most humans. However, they are protected by The Outer Gods, especially Nyarlathotep. The Great Ones

Great Race of Yith

The Great Race of Yith are a race of sentient beings of extraterrestrial origin. They are capable of projecting their consciousnesses across time, inhabiting the bodies of individuals of other species and swapping their minds with their own. At some point

Green

Green is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is the first mate of the Emma of Auburn. En route to Callao, the Emma encounters the heavily armored steam

Grimoire

Grimoires are books of great importance or power and are the source of much of the forbidden knowledge that illuminates the darkest recesses of the world. These books contain forbidden knowledge and discoveries about the [Great Old Ones]] or of many occul

Groth-Golka

Groth-Golka, also known as the Demon Bird-God, is a monstrous creature dwelling under Antarctica. It is said to vaguely resemble a pterosaur.

Gtuhanai

Gtuhanai (The Destroyer God of the Aartna) is a destructive entity manifesting a ravenous metallic vortex. Similar to Hastur, he is a half-brother of Cthulhu and is also related to the slug-like Glaaki. He dwells somewhere in the Pleiades stellar region a

Guerrera

Guerrera is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a member of the Emma of Auburn, although his role is uncertain. After Donovan is successful in openi

Gug

Gugs are a species of creatures featured in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. They are large, black-furred beasts with vertically-opening fanged jaws. Their two eyes protrude from either side of their head, and their limbs terminate in two paws each. Gug

Gulf of S'glhuo

S'glhuo is a fictional dimension which first appeared in Ramsey Campbell's short story "The Plain of Sound" .

Gur'la-ya

Gur'la-ya, Lurker in Doom-laden Shadows, is a great humanoid shadow-thing with two red glowing eyes able to transform its victims skulls into green glowing stones carved with odd symbols.

Gustaf Johansen

Gustaf Johansen is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a Norwegian sailor "of some intelligence," and the second mate of the Emma of Aubu

H'chtelegoth

H'chtelegoth was a Great Old One which resembled a greenish-brown trunk with a crown of tentacles, a row of multiple eyes and a couple of lateral grasping tentacles.

Haïta the Shepherd

Story by Ambrose Bierce (first published in Wave (San Francisco) January 24, 1891, also published as part of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians & Can Such Things Be?).

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W is a serialized manga series that has elements of the Mythos

Han

Han (The Dark One) Is a entity made of freezing, howling mist, who is bound to Yig's worship. He guards a gigantic endless maze, which holds a relic inside that belongs to Yig.

Harley Warren

Harley Warren is a major character in the dream cycle series, he*s a friend of Randolph Carter. He was mentioned several times in the dream cycle series, but it was revealed that he died in The statement of Randolph Carter.

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and th

Hastur

Hastur, known more commonly as "Hastur the Unspeakable," is a Cthulhu mythos deity. Although the being is most famously associated with Lovecraft, it is only mentioned in one of his stories, “The Whisperer in Darkness.” Originally it was the cre

Hawkins

Hawkins is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a member of the Emma of Auburn, although his role is uncertain. When Donovan successfully opens Cthul

Hazel Heald

Hazel Heald (1896–1961), was an American horror and weird fiction author from Somerville, Massachusetts. She is best known as a revision client of Lovecraft. Lovecraft revised five of her stories: “The Man of Stone”, “Winged Death”, “The Horror in the Mus

He

"He" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written August 1925, it was first published in Weird Tales, September 1926.

He (short story)

Searching for remnants of centuries past on Manhattan Island in New York, a poet comes across a necromancer who takes him through forgotten parts of Greewich Village to his ancestral estate. There the necromancer shows him visions of the past and future.

Henry Akeley

Henry Wentworth Akeley (1871–1928) is a local farmer residing at the Akeley farm at Black Mountain, Vermont and the pen pal of Prof. Albert Wilmarth. He is also an amateur student of folk lore who takes it upon himself to investigate the Bostonian man Noi

Henry Anthony Wilcox

Henry Anthony Wilcox is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is an art student studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives alone

Henry Kuttner

Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 4, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Henry S. Whitehead

Henry St. Clair Whitehead (March 5, 1882 – November 23, 1932) was an American writer of horror fiction and fantasy

Herbert West

Herbert West is the main character in H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West-Reanimator as well as the Re-Animator series of films and comics. He is a scientist who creates a formula capable of animating dead bodies.

Herbert West--Reanimator

"Herbert West—Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The stor

Hidden Ones

The Hidden Ones are beings who worship the god Zulchequon. The veiled leader of the Hidden Ones is Tsunth. Possibly they are the Nyghan Grii or the Moon Beasts.

History of the Necronomicon

"History of the Necronomicon" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1927, and published in 1938. It describes the fictional book the Necronomicon, a now-famous element used in several of his stories.

Hnarqu

Hnarqu (The Great One) a lesser brother of the great Cthulhu manifesting as a titanic mouth surrounded by innumerable tentacles, similar to a great sea anemone.

Horror

Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil —- or, occasionally, misunderstood —- supernatural

Hound of Tindalos

The Hounds of Tindalos are extra-dimensional predatory creatures, capable of materializing at any point in space and time to feed upon victims.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937), of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

Human

Humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) are a species of intelligent bipedal mammals occupying the planet Earth in the Sol system.  

Hune

A hune is an organ, perhaps unique to the spacefaring Byakhee species, and is capable of providing ease of movement in both vacuum and within atmosphere.

Hybrid

There are many ways in which hybrids and hybridization is described on a scientific level, (see Hybrid). However, within the context of the Cthulhu Mythos, a hybrid may be narrowly defined as an individual or group of individuals that derive their genes f

Hydra

Mother Hydra is a creature who, alongside her consort Dagon, is said to rule over the race known as the Deep Ones .

Hyperborea

Hyperborea is the ancient name of the landmass today known as Greenland. Mount Voormithadreth, the abode of Tsathoggua, is located in Hyperborea.

Hyperborean cycle

The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea (present-day Greenland). Various elements in Smith's cycle have been borrowed by H.P. Lovecraft, most notably

Hyperboreans

 The Hyperboreans were a mythical race of human-like entities that dwelled far, far to the north, or perhaps in the south pole. They were thought to be from the the lost era of, or possibly preceding, Atlantis.

Hypnos

Hypnos is the Greek god of sleep. It is speculated that he is an Elder God, as he appears in the story "Hypnos". He appears as a youthful man with a bearded face, "immense, sunken and widely luminous eyes", and a crown of poppies.

Hypnos (short story)

"Hypnos" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of National Amateur.

Hziulquoigmnzhah

Hziulquoigmnzhah (also Ziulquaz-Manzah) is the son of Cxaxukluth. He is also the brother to Ghisguth and the uncle of Tsathoggua.

Ialdagorth

Ialdagorth (The Dark Devourer) Is a cousin and servitor of Azathoth. He appears as a black, shapeless and malevolent mist. The sight of the monstrousity is said to be unnerving if not traumatizing.

Ibid

"Ibid" is a parody by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1927 or 1928 and first published in the January 1938 issue of O-Wash-Ta-Nong.

Idh-yaa

Idh-yaa (The Mighty Mother) is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos, who gave birth to the Star-Spawn of Cthulhu on a planet in the Xoth Star system, after matting with Cthulhu. She specifically produced the sons of Cthulhu: Ghatanothoa, Ythogtha, and Zoth-Ommog

Imprisoned with the Pharoahs

"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" (called "Under the Pyramids" in draft form, also published as "Entombed with the Pharaohs") is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in February 1924. Commissioned by

In the Vault

"In the Vault' is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal The Tryout.

In the Walls of Eryx

"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by the pulp fiction author H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J. Sterling (1920–1995), written in January 1936 and first published in Weird Tales magazine in October 1939. It is unusual among Lovecraft's wor

Incubus

"Incubus" is a poem by August Derleth that appeared in his collection In the Shadow of Lovecraft.

Influence of H.P. Lovecraft in Other Works

H.P. Lovecraft and his mythos have had a significant influence on later works in a wide variety of media. The following is a comprehensive list of works that, while not direct adaptations of Lovecraft's works, contain references, allusions or themes

Innsmouth

Innsmouth is a fictional town in Lovecraft Country, and is the primary setting in the story The Shadow Over Innsmouth. It was founded in 1643, noted for shipbuilding before the American Revolution.

Innsmouth look

The "Innsmouth look" appears in the Cthulhu Mythos story, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and refers to a set of physical features that result from the hybridization of Humans with Deep Ones.

Intelligent mollusk

Intelligent mollusks are a telepathic race of creatures which inhabit the seas of Venus in the distant future. They are mentioned in Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos novel The Transition of Titus Crow.

Iod

Iod, “The Hunter of Souls”, is a Great Old One worshipped on the planet Bel Yarnak and beyond the farthest galaxies (where he is “The Source”), and is known in Atlantis and Mu (as “The Shining Hunter”) who worshipped him as a “god of earth” along with Vor

Istasha

Istasha (Mistress of Darkness) is a cat deity similar to Bast but more vicious. Her sister is the sylvan Lythalia.

Ithaqua

Ithaqua, also known as the Wind-Walker or the Wendigo, is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The titular creature debuted in August Derleth's short story "Ithaqua", which was based on Algernon Blackwood's t

James Ambuehl

James Ambuehl is a Lovecraftian author who has invented numerous Great Old Ones and the so-called Lu-Kthu Pantheon.[1]

James F. Morton

James Ferdinand Morton, Jr. (October 18, 1870 – October 7, 1941) was an anarchist writer and political activist of the 1900s through the 1920s especially on the topics of the single tax system, racism, and advocacy for women. After about 1920 he was more

Jervas Dudley

Jervas Dudley is the antagonist in The Tomb.

John Glasby

John S. Glasby was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. During the 1950s and 1960s he produced over 300 novels and short stories, most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint.

John Kirowan

Professor John Kirowan is a fictional character from Robert E. Howard's contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos.

John Raymond Legrasse

John Raymond Legrasse is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". Described as "a commonplace-looking middle-aged man," he is a New Orleans police i

John Richmond

Member of the 3-man fishing party, along with Carr, Peter B. and Canfield, Simon, responsible for dragging a 360-pound metallic rock ashore after it crashed into the water off the coast of Potowonket, Maine. The object fell from the sky on Wednesday, Augu

Jones, Richmond M., PhD

Local scientific authority of Potowonket, Maine. Discoverer of the book inside the metallic rock-like object that fell from the sky on Wednesday, August 27, 1913, at approximately 8:30 PM.

Juk-Shabb

Juk-Shabb, God of Yekub, appears as a huge shining ball of sentient energy.

K'baa the Serpent

K'baa the Serpent is a mysterious character that is a descendant of Cthulhu and a distant ancestor of H.P. Lovecraft.

K'Kligir

K'Kligir is a city of the Deep Ones similar to Y'ha-nthlei. Not much is known of this city.

Kadath

Kadath is the home of the dream-gods of Earth, otherwise known as the "Great Ones."

Karthis

Karthis is the homeworld of the Nioth-Korghai, in the Rigel System. It is a ocean covered world.

Kenneth Grant

Kenneth Grant (23 May 1924 – 15 January 2011) was an English ceremonial magician and prominent advocate of the Thelemite religion. A poet, novelist, and writer, he founded his own Thelemite organisation, the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis later renamed th

Kenneth Sterling

Kenneth J. Sterling (1920–1995), was an American science fiction author best known for his collaboration with Howard Phillips Lovecraft in the short story In the Walls of Eryx. He was a young man when when he first crosse dpaths with Lovecraft in 1934.

Keziah Mason

Keziah Mason is a witch who studied the secrets of inter-dimensional travel.

Khal'kru

Khal'kru, All-in-All, Greater-than-Gods, is a dark octopoid horror, similar to the Norse Kraken, but dwelling inside a temple somewhere within a hidden warm valley in Alaska.

Knygathin Zhaum

Knygathin Zhaum is the child of Sfatlicllp and a Voormi.

Koth

In the Conrad & Kirowan stories of Robert E. Howard Koth is referred to as a black cyclopean city. In Howard's Conan the barbarian stories Koth is an ancient Hyborian kingdom. The city of Koth could reside in this kingdom or be a remnant of it. S

Kthanid

Kthanid is said to be the brother of Cthulhu and an Elder God. A member of Cthulhu's race, he helped banish his brother and the other Great Old Ones to Earth before binding them. He is the leader of the Elder Gods who live on the planet Elysia.

Kuranes

Kuranes is the dream-name of an Earthly hobo (his real name is never revealed) who had, as a youth, invented the city of Celephais in the Dreamlands. As he grew older, he became more desperate to return to that city, eventually resorting to narcotic drugs

Kythanil

Kythanil (also Kythamil) - double planet that once revolved around the star Arcturus. Tsathoggua's followers, the Voormi , once lived here, and Zvilpogghua's “daughter,” Sfatlicllp, may also have dwelt here. The planet was destroyed in some cata

Lake

Lake is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novel At the Mountains of Madness.

Lake of Hali

Lake of Hali: The cloud-lake near the city of Carcosa, in the Hyades. Hastur is said to be “the Sleeper beneath the lake”. When the Spawn of Cthulhu wake and thrash about in the lake it is called “the Time of the Frothing”. Mists and cloud banks commonly

Laniqua Lua'huan

Laniqua Lua'huan are dolphin-like sub-species of Deep One. We do not know if they have a complex physiological development, as other Deep Ones do.

Lavinia Whateley

Lavinia Whateley is the albino daughter of the wizard Old Whateley. Using her father's incomplete copy of the Necronomicon, she summoned Yog-Sothoth and he impregnated her. Some time later she gave birth to twins, Wilbur Whateley and the Dunwich Horr

Leng (Antarctica)

The Plateau of Leng is a location in Antarctica, where the Elder Things built one of their greatest Earthly cities. It was first discovered by geologist William Dyer and graduate student Danforth.

Leviathan

Leviathan - the name given by some Inuit Cultists to a child of Cthulhu: “…the Other Tornasuks left or went to sleep with Him [Cthulhu], except Dagon his servant-creation and Leviathan his son”. It is not clear if it is one of the named sons It seem likel

Lilith

Lilith is a demonic character mentioned in Jewish folklore. In the Cthulhu Mythos, it appears prominently in story "The Horror at Red Hook".

Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lovecraft parody)

List of species

Species are the creatures that inhabit the universe of the Cthulhu mythos. the vary in shapes and size, in physical and mental power.

Llewellyn M. Cabos

Llewellyn M. Cabos, born 26 June 1954, Honolulu Hawaii to Manuel F. Cabos Jr and Josephine Amaral. Third of four children. Married to Katherine Marie Pudelwitts (1986–1990) no children. Creator of occult action hero Ryan Arcane. All Mythos stories were th

Lloigor (dismbiguation)

Lloigor may refer to either of the following:

Lloigor (species)

The Lloigor are vortices of living power completely invisible except on occasions when they appear reptilian. They came from Andromeda, first settling in Lemuria and Mu. They used humans as slaves (see the Kthatans ), have the power to transform people ph

Lobon

Lobon is one of the Great Ones, the gods of Earth that reside in Kadath. He appears as an ivy-crowned youth bearing a spear.

Magic

Magic can describe any otherworldly force or energy. It can be manipulated by humans but only with tremendous danger to the user. For some greater magics it even requires the sacrifice of the soul. It is known to be practized in nearly every part of the h

Mana-Yood-Sushai

Mana-Yood-Sushai is a being in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Marginalia

Marginalia is a collection of Fantasy, Horror and Science fiction short stories, essays, biography and poetry by and about the American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1944 and was the third collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkh

Mars

Mars is the fourth planet in the Earth's solar system. It is inhabited by the Aihai, a race of intelligent beings.

Medusa's Coil

"Medusa's Coil" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop. It was first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1939, two years after Lovecraft's death.

Memory

"Memory" is a flash fiction short story by American horror and science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and published in May 1923 in The National Amateur.

Mi-go

The Mi-go are an extraterrestrial species from the planet Yuggoth. They are described as winged creatures with large claws and heads covered in antennae.

Mi-go brain cylinder

A brain cylinder is a cylindrical, medium sized machine used by the Mi-go to transport humans to Yuggoth. It contains a living human brain, vivisected from its host and preserved in nutrient fluid. The cylinder can be connected with various devices that p

Mind Parasites (disambiguation)

The term Mind Parasites may apply to a number of Mythos topics.

Miskatonic University

Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in Arkham, a fictitious town in Essex County, Massachusetts. It is named after the Miskatonic River. After first appearing in H. P. Lovecraft's 1922 story "Herbert West–Reanimator", th

Miskatonic University Museum

The Miskatonic University Museum is located on the campus of Miskatonic University. This museum holds a piece of jewelry from the Deep Ones.

Mlandoth

Mlandoth - a primal entity or force, not dissimilar to the Nameless Mist or Darkness, although it is uncertain if it is a place, conscious being, or an inconceivable maelstrom of unknown forces and properties outside the perceptible cosmos. It is mentione

Mnomquah

(the Lord of the Black Lake) Mnomquah is a great reptilian creature with a crown of writhing feelers and empty sockets in place of eyes (though they still work like normal eyes). He is trapped inside the Dreamland's moon, though how he got trapped th

Moon-beast

In The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, the dream-world version of Earth's moon is populated by a race of strange beings, known only as "moon-beasts." They are pale, squat, toadlike creatures, having no eyes but instead a mass of pink tentacl

Mother of Pus

The Mother of Pus is a minor Outer God composed of eyes, slime, tentacles and mouths. She was spawned between the mating of Shub-Niggurath and a human. When summoned, she seeks refuge in pools of foul water.

Mu

Mu is a lost continent that now lies at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It is connected to numerous aspects of the Mythos.

Mutant

In the Cthulhu Mythos, there are not only abominable creatures from outer space and beyond our universe. There are individuals, human and otherwise, that have been changed by their encounters with alien technology, exotic energy and other still more stran

Mysteries of the Worm (disambiguation)

Mysteries of the Worm may refer to:

Mythos (card game)

Mythos was a collectible card game for two or more players published by Chaosium and based on the Cthulhu Mythos and the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. It was first published in 1996, but discontinued in 1997 after a slump in sales. It was succeeded i

N'hlathi

N'hlathi are a race of intelligent centipede aliens. Titus Crow sees their lair on Elysia in Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos novel The Transition of Titus Crow.

Naggob

Nagoob (Father of Ghouls) another name for the godling Shaurash-Ho used in the Book of Eibon. Lin Carter also named Nug as the “Father of Ghouls”, then seems to have realized his mistake and come up with this name (after also muddling Nyogtha's name

Nameless Mist

The Nameless Mist is one of the three offspring of Azathoth (the others being the Darkness and Nyarlathotep), and the parent of Yog-Sothoth.  

Nctosa and Nctolhu

They are the twin daughters of Cthulhu, hence they are called the Twin spawn of Cthulhu. They are currently imprisoned in the Great Red Spot of the planet Jupiter. They both appear as huge shell-endowed beings, with eight segmented limbs, and six long arm

Necronomicon

The Necronomicon is a fictional book of knowledge and spells in the Cthulhu mythos purportedly written by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred and often referenced.

Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness (video game)

Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness, also known as Necronomicon: The Gateway to Beyond, is a 2001 video game developed by Wanadoo Edition and released for Windows and the PlayStation video game console.

Negotiam Perambulans

Negotiam Perambulans is a short story by british writer E.F.Benson .

Nephren-Ka

The Black Pharaoh, an insane pharaoh who secured the Shining Trapezohedron for Egypt, but after being convinced by the resident Haunter of the Dark, he had a lightless temple created to hold the stone and the deity within. That temple became a center of a

Ngyr-Korath

 Ngyr-Korath (The Ultimate Abomination and The Mad God of the Void) is a mythical being which existed before the planets, haunting the star-spaces. When life arrived it became mad and started to devour stars. A Cult to Ngyr-Khorath exists. Its legend appe

Nioth-Korghai

A long-lived androgynous, yellow, fungoid, squid-like alien race. They come from the planet Karthis, a water-world, and possessed a highly evolved civilisation millions of years ago. According to them they created the first true hominids, after 700 years

Nira

Nira - an Elder God (probably goddess) and consort to Nodens. Nira and Nodens constantly war with Rokon and the serpent folk of Zandanua.

Nodens

Nodens is a deity referred to in The Strange High House in the Mist and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. He is the lord and master of the night-gaunts, a race of strange flying creatures.

Nug and Yeb

Nug and Yeb, the Twin Blasphemies, are the spawn of Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth. Nug is the parent of Cthulhu and Yeb is the parent of Tsathoggua via the influence of Yog-Sothoth. Nug is a god among ghouls, while Yeb is the leader of Abhoth's alie

Nyaghoggua

Nyaghoggua - a being served by the priests of Arkya, mentioned in the Song of Yste. Probably another name for Tsathoggua?

Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep, known to many by his epithet The Crawling Chaos, is an Outer God in the Cthulhu Mythos. He is the spawn of Azathoth. He is the creation of H. P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his prose poem "Nyarlathotep" (1920).  

Nyarlathotep (short story)

"Nyarlathotep" is a prose poem/short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in 1920, and first published in the November 1920 issue of The United Amateur. It is the first mention in fiction of the Cthulhu Mythos entity Nyarlathotep.

Nyghan Grii

The Nyghan Grii, “The Invaders”, and “The Enemy”, are a race similar to the Doels and the Mind Parasites. They are luminous spherical creatures with glossy ivory-yellow semi-translucent vine-like appendages ending in raw looking stumps covered in cilia. T

Nyogtha

Nyogtha, Haunter of the Red Abyss, The Thing which Should Not Be) is described as an inky shadow.

Ob'mbu

Ob'mbu, The Shatterer, is a monstrosity that resembles a giraffe-like reptile.

Obed Marsh, Captain

Obed Marsh was a sea captain from Innsmouth. At the height of his career he had command of three ships- the Columbia, the Hetty, and the Sumatra Queen. He learned from the inhabitants of a Polynesian island a ritual to summon the old ones. This was done o

Old Bugs

"Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (1959).

Old One

"Old One" is an ambiguous term in the Cthulhu Mythos, and may refer to:

Old Whateley

Old Whateley, also known as Wizard Whateley, was a major character in Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror.

Oorn

The wife of Mnomquah, she is described as a huge tentacled mollusc with appendages that spray digestive acids. She is worshipped by the Men of Leng and the Moon-Beasts. She is mentioned in Mad Moon of Dreams.

Orryx

Orryx (The Bright Flame) is an Elder God that manifests as a giant pillar of blinding white and purple flames. Although its expression is bright and blinding, no one feels its heat. No one can look at Orryx more than a few seconds; after the first glance,

Other Deities

These beings are not as powerful as the Great Old Ones but are still very powerful entities. They Can range from a species singular or group of entities.

Othkkartho

Othkkartho, known as the Sire of the Four Titans of Balance and Order, is the son of the Elder God Nodens.

Othuum

Othuum, The Oceanic Horror, is a twisting rope-like monstrosity covered in tentacles with a singular alien face in the middle of squirming, ropy mass.

Oukranos

Oukranos is one of the Great Ones, the gods of Earth that reside in Kadath. 

Out of the Aeons

"Out of the Aeons" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, a writer from Somerville, Massachusetts. It is one of five stories Lovecraft revised for Heald. It focuses on a Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a

Outer Gods

The Outer Gods are various cosmically significant entities that are featured in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are to be distinguished from the Great Old Ones, although the distinction isn't universally acknowledged. Generally speaking, they are located be

Oztalun

Oztalun (Golden and Shimmering One) is an Elder God introduced by James Ambuehl. It is symbolized by a seven-pointed star, which is its own seal.

Parker

Parker is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu".

Pegasus Press

Pegasus Spiele Verlags - und Medienvertriebsgesellschaft mbH, as the full name of the enterprise goes (Pegasus Games Publishing and Media), has been active since 1993 when it was created by current directors and owners Karsten Esser and Andreas Finkernage

Peter B. Carr

Member of the 3-man fishing party, along with Richmond, John and Canfield, Simon, responsible for dragging a 360-pound metallic rock ashore after it crashed into the water off the coast of Potowonket, Maine. The object fell from the sky on Wednesday, Augu

Peter Cannon

Peter H. Cannon (b. 1951 in California) is an H. P. Lovecraft scholar and an author of Cthulhu Mythos fiction.

Pickman's Model

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales. It was adapted for television in 1972 as an episode of the Night Gallery anthology series.

Plateau of Leng

Leng is a fictional cold arid plateau in the Cthulhu Mythos, whose location seems to vary entirely from story to story. The Plateau of Tsang, referenced by H. P. Lovecraft and other authors, is probably a region of Leng.

Plateau of Sung

A plateau in Burma on which the Tcho-Tcho People are centred. The city of Alaozar stood on the Isle of Stars in the Lake of Dread, hidden from common view by a barrier of trees (if they were trees!). The gods Lloigor and Zhar are situated here. Sometimes

Pluto

Pluto is a Location in the Lovecraft Universe, this is in part due to the fact that it was known to Mr. Lovecraft back when his stories were new. Also in part to any stories themselves that might have had to do with the world known as Pluto.

Pnakotic Manuscripts

The Pnakotic Manuscripts (or Pnakotic Fragments) is a fictional document or a grimoire in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. They were created originally by the Great Race of Yith and kept in their library-city of Pnakotus.

Poetry and the Gods

Poetry and the Gods is a short story by horror writer and poet H.P. Lovecraft in collaboration with writer Anna Helen Crofts. The story is very different from the vast majority of Lovecraft's other work and collaborations. It does, however, bear simi

Polaris

"Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is noteworthy as the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts,

Professor Bradley

Analyzed the the metallic rock-like object that landed off the coast of Potowonket, Maine on Wednesday, August 27, 1913, at approximately 8:30 PM. Concluded that a significant quantity of unknown material present in the object rendered classification impo

Professor Chambers

Analyzed the book inside the metallic rock-like object that landed off the coast of Potowonket, Maine on Wednesday, August 27, 1913, at approximately 8:30 PM. While studying the volume, Professor Chambers rendered several pages of the book practically ill

Professor Mayfield

Analyzed samples of the metallic rock-like object that landed off the coast of Potowonket, Maine on Wednesday, August 27, 1913, at approximately 8:30 PM. Mayfield declared the object a meteorite.

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is Lovecraft's home town and is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States.Located in Providence County, it is the estimated third-largest city in

Ptar-Axtlan

Ptar-Axtlan (The Leopard That Stalks The Night) A mysterious entity that is related to zoomorphic shapeshifers, mostly werecats.

Quachil Uttaus

Quachil Uttaus (The Treader of the Dust), a Great Old One can reduce all living tissue he comes into contact with to dust (and is therefore similar to another of Smith's characters, Ubbo-Sathla). Quachil Uttaus is usually associated with age, death,

Quy

Quy - a prehuman civilisation which seem to have been active even before Atlantis and Valusia, including the “seven cities” mentioned in The Black Book of the Skull . Once it covered the whole continent of America, but when the Old Ones and their servants

Quyagen

Quyagen - the god of Yagothoggua , mentioned in The Black Book of the Skull . The Great Old One is an enormous shadowy, horned creature with a mass of tenticles. He is served by the Y'nathogguans . The god is worshipped by blood sacrfices, most famou

R'lyeh

R'lyeh (pronounced /ˈɹu.li.a/ or /ɹɪl.ˈai.ɛ/) is a fictional island city created by H. P. Lovecraft, which makes its first appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". R'lyeh is also referred to in Lovecraft's "T

R. H. Barlow

Robert Hayward Barlow (May 18, 1918 – January 1 or 2, 1951) was an American author, avant-garde poet, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl language. He was a correspondent and friend of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and w

Raandaii-B'nk

Raandaii-B'nk is the god of the Raandeese, and it is said he created sharks in his own image. There is an undersea temple within the Bermuda Triangle, known as the "Cathedral of Raandaii-B'nk". Raandaii-B'nk was created by Gregory

Raandeese

Raandeese - monstrous shark-people who worship the god Randaii-B'nk. Their known colony is within the Bermuda Triangle.

Racism in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft

 One of the most unfortunate and controversial aspects of Lovecraft's works is the author's inclusion of racist ideas and themes, which "does not endear Lovecraft to the modern reader,” and comes across through many disparaging remarks agai

Ragnalla

Ragnalla (Nest Mistress of the Winged Ones and The Seeker in the Skies) a vulturine and raptorial creature. See Winged Ones.

Ramsey Campbell

John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while

Randolph Carter

Randolph Carter is one of the most frequently appearing characters in the Cthulhu Mythos. The character is semi-autobiographical, sharing several of Lovecraft's biographical aspects as well as his antiquarian tastes and mild nature.

Raphanasuan

Raphanasuan, The One from the Sun Race, is said to look like a six-armed demon.

Ravermos

Ravermos is a city located on Mars. It is the current home of Vulthoom, a malevolent being who is known as "the Sleeper of Ravermos."

Reanimated corpse

Spanning a broad cross-section of origins and purposes, reanimated corpses do exist in the Cthulhu Mythos. There are some that would be defined as biological experiments, such as the work of Herbert West and Dr. Muñoz. Others such as the so-name "The

Rhan-Tegoth

Rhan-Tegoth, A 15 foot medusa-like, amphibious god-being (Great Old One) of little power but vital to the return of the Old Ones. It lived in the warm seas of Yuggoth before coming to Earth. 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch, it inhabited an

Rhogog

I’ve always had an interest in  the unknown, and it often manifested in my love of space, however a few years ago I became interested in the writing of H. P. Lovecraft. Thus, I started to do art based on his monstrous beings. This is Rhogog, one of the gr

Richard L. Tierney

Richard L. Tierney (born 1936) is an American writer and poet. Tierney, a scholar of H. P. Lovecraft, has written Cthulhu Mythos novels and is the coauthor (with David C. Smith) of a series of Red Sonja novels, featuring cover art by Boris Vallejo.

Rlim Shaikorth

Rlim Shaikorth, The White Worm, A gigantic, pale, white worm with a great gaping maw and empty sockets for eyes that bleed rivers of blood continuously. One of Rlim Shaikorth's avatars is known as the White Worm and was active during the Hyperborean

Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5 1917, Chicago – September 23 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-194

Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unb

Robert M. Price

Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American theologian and writer. He has written extensively within the Cthulhu Mythos. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the

Robert Olmstead

Robert Olmstead is the narrator of The Shadow Over Innsmouth and a member of the Marsh family. His home is in Toledo. It is remarked that his eyes have the same, strange quality seen in descendants of Obed Marsh. In the story's final pages he learns

Robert W. Chambers

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.

Rodriguez

Rodriguez is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a member of the Emma of Auburn, although his role is uncertain. While investigating the island of R

Rokon

Rokon - the god-king of the serpent folk on the planet Zandanua (their place of origin). He is brother to Yig . Rokon and his followers constantly war with Nira and Nodens .

S'glhuo

'S'glhuo is an alternate dimension that manifests only as sound in our universe. Information regarding S'glhuo can be found in the book The Revelations of Gla'aki.

S. Albert Kivinen

Seppo Albert Kivinen (born October 19, 1933 in Ikaalinen) is a Finnish author and doctor of philosophy and docent emeritus of University of Helsinki, known for his occult interests. He is a onetime winner of the Atorox Award for best Finnish short story,

S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics su

Sarnath

Sarnath was a vast, majestic and powerful city in Mnar, a land extremely remote on Earth, some ten thousand years ago. Its dwellers were human empire builders of immense wealth; but their mighty city was built on blood, because not long after they laid it

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet of the Solar System. A version of it exists in the Dreamlands, where it is populated by monstrous cats. The planet is also known by the name Cykranosh, and was Tsathoggua's home in ancient times.

Saturn (god)

Saturn (also known as Cronus) is a god in a human form, firstly appearing in H.P.Lovecraft :A poem. He is a god in Ancient Roman mythology and is known for devouring his children.

Satyrs

Satyrs are mythical creatures often depicted as having the upper half of a man and the lower half of a goat. They are known to inhabit the French province of Averoigne and at least some of them are known to be servants of Sheila-Na-Gog, a possible avatar

Sebek

Sebek, The Crocodile God, is a Great Old One usually depicted as a crocodile humanoid with several lower jaws. Although weaker than most Great Old Ones, he has been known to be a warrior deity and is still revered as a powerful god.

Sedmelluq

Sedmelluq (The Great Manipulator) is a colossal glowing worm with a star-shaped mouth dwelling in Antartica.

Sentient polyhedron

Sentinel Hill

Sentinel Hill is a summit in the town of Dunwich. On it rests several stone pillars, as well as what appears to be a circular stone altar. These structures are generally believed to be the remnants of the Native American cult which practiced religious rit

Sfatlicllp

Sfatlicllp is the daughter of Zvilpogghua. She is the wife of a Voormi and their offspring is Knygathin Zhaum.

Shantak

Shantaks are a species of flying bird-like creatures. They are larger than elephants in size, and are said to have heads resembling those of horses. Very few humans are known to have seen them in person.

Shathak

Shathak is the wife of Tsathoggua and the mother of Zvilpogghua. The being mated with Tsathoggua to produce Zvilpogghua on the planet Neptune according to the Parchments of Pnom. The name's similarlity to Shantaks is probably conincidental. Also call

Shaurash-ho

Shaurash-Ho (The Prowler Among the Tombs, and Father of All Ghouls) the progenitor the the ghoul race, possibly through mating with Bast. Shaurash-ho is a descendent of Cthulhu and father of Yogash the Ghoul and it has been postulated that it might itself

Shining Trapezohedron

The Shining Trapezohedron is a fictional artifact appearing in H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Haunter of the Dark" and Robert Bloch's sequel, "The Shadow from the Steeple." The Trapezohedron serves as a window on all of sp

Shoggoth

Shoggoths are amorphous, shapeshifting beings. They were genetically engineered by the Elder Things as a race of servant-tools, but eventually rose up against their masters and drove them to extinction. Shoggoths are now found in isolated locales across E

Shub-Niggurath

Shub-Niggurath (The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young) is an Outer God in the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. The being first appeared in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); however, in Lovecraft's fiction,

Shudde M'ell

Shudde M'ell (The Burrower Beneath) a mile long great grey chanting worm creature that releases odd acids. It burrows through the earth, melting all rocks in its wake. It is the supreme regent of the Chthonians.

Silent Legions

Silent Legions is an OSR-style Lovecraftian tabletop role-playing game with emphasis on sandbox adventures. It was published by Sine Nomine Publishing in 2015.

Silver Key

The Silver Key is an ancient artifact, the use of which unlocks gates of space and time and allows access to remote times and places of the universe. It was last in the possession of Randolph Carter, who used it to travel through the Ultimate Gate.

Simon of Gitta

Simon of Gitta is a Samaritan ex-gladiator turned sorcerer.

Song of Yste

Song of Yste - a book of “preglacial” origin (Thulean? — it was known to the antehumans of Thule according to the Book of Eibon ) which was translated in mediaeval times into Greek, Latin, Arabic and Middle English by the Dirkas Monks. It may have taken t

Sonia H. Greene

Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis (16 March 1883, Ichnia, Ukraine - 26 December 1972) was a one-time pulp fiction writer and amateur publisher, a single mother, business woman and successful milliner who bankrolled several fanzines in the early twentieth

Summanus

Summanus, Monarch of the Night, Lord of Hell, The Terror that Walketh in Darkness, appears as a grotesque, mouthless humanoid with pale tentacles sticking out from under his robes. He can use these tentacles to siphon blood from his victims.

Supernatural Horror in Literature

This essay style work written by H.P.Lovecraft details the top works and writers of "Supernatural Horror" and "Weird Literature", at least, according to H.P. Lovecraft. He goes over their faults as well as the things that make them uni

Swarog

Swarog, is a hideous being appearing as a dark, gigantic, legless bird-like horror swathed in dark flames, with its long neck topped by a black lump, half of which endowed with a big glowing eye and the other being covered in innumerable tentacles.

Sweet Ermengarde

"Sweet Ermengarde" is a short comic story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft under the pseuodym "Percy Simple". It was probably written between 1919 and 1921; Lovecraft scholars state it is "the only work of fiction

T'ith

T'ith is the offspring of the Great Old One Cthulhu and the Elder God Sk'tai.

Tcho-Tcho People

The Tcho-Tcho People are a group of tribes of near-human Asian natives. They can be found in Burma, The Anderman Isles, Indo-China (Tibet) and Malaysia. They are genetically from humans, they are notably smaller, have livid red skin, and other marked phys

Th'rygh

Th'rygh, The God-Beast, is a monstrous entity manifesting as a horrible patchwork of flesh, soil, and alien matter.

Thanaroa

'Thanaroa, The Shining One, is a mysterious evil entity, manifesting as a pillar of dazzling light, dwelling in the ruins of Nan Madol, near Ponape. Its name recalls that of Polynesian creator god Tangaroa.

Tharapithia

Tharapithia, The Shadow in the Crimson Light, is a Slavic and Ugric God-like creature, photophobic and burrowing fiend worshiped in the Middle Ages. It cannot endure sunlight, and eludes it by tunneling deep underneath the roots of oak trees.

The Alchemist

"The Alchemist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1908, when Lovecraft was 17 or 18, and first published in the November 1916 issue of the United Amateur.

The Beast in the Cave

"The Beast in the Cave" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1905, when Lovecraft was fourteen. It was first published in the June 1918 issue of the amateur press journal the Vagrant.

The Black Man

He leaves behind him cloven footprints suggesting he has hoofed feet.

The Blackness from the Stars

The Blackness from the Stars is an immobile blob of living, sentient darkness, torn from the primal fabric of the cosmos at the center of the universe. It is distinguishable in darkness only as vaguely shimmering oily pitch. Although intelligent, it speak

The Book

"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.

The Call of Cthulhu

"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in August and September 1926 and originally serialized in the February 1928 issue of Weird Tales. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the ex

The Call of Cthulhu (film)

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short novel (51,500 words) by H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it was first published (in abridg

The Cats of Sadoqua

The Cats of Sadoqua are black feline servants of the Great Old One Tsathoggua or "Sadoqua" as he is known in Averonia.

The Cats of Ulthar

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the narr

The Chronicles of Thrang

Chronicles of Thrang: Obscure chronicles translated into English from some prehuman tongue and the language of the pre-Sumerian Ngarathoe. Possibly relating to the “Thrang Grotto of Tatary” mentioned in the Necronomicon to have been attacked by Nyogtha. O

The Cloud-Thing

The Cloud-Thing was an unnamed Outer God within the Court of Azathoth, it was described as man-eating, cloudy mass.

The Colour out of Space

for the fictional being related to this article Colour Out of Space

The Crawling Chaos

For other uses, see Crawling Chaos (disambiguation).

The Cthulhu Files

The Cthulhu Files is an internet resource site devoted to the works of the Cthulhu Mythos and the contributions of authors from the "first generation" of stories.

The Curse of Yig

for the 1953 collection of stories and essays by Zealia Bishop The Curse of Yig (book)

The Descendant

"The Descendant" is a story fragment by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in 1927. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.

The Dhôl Chants

The Dhôl Chants - a book dealing with Dhôls (or dholes?) and their various ceremonies and spells. It is probably pre- or early human, being attributed to malign and non-human inhabitants of Leng and possibly the Tcho-Tcho People It was translated into Bur

The Doel Chants

The Doel Chants are mentioned among a list of Mythos items. Logically they are simply the chants of the Doel, but they might be a variation of The Dhôl Chants.

The Doom That Came to Sarnath

"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1920) is an early short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fairy tale style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in Jun

The Doom that Came to Sarnath and Other Stories

The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories is a collection of fantasy and horror stories by H. P. Lovecraft, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-sixth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult F

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that make up his Dream Cyc

The Dreamlands

The Dreamlands or Dream Realm in H.P. Lovecraft's fiction is a vast, alternate dimension or universe, accessible to mortals living in the "real" universe only through dreams. 

The Dreams in the Witch-House

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle of horror fiction. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales.

The Dunwich Horror

for other uses of the "The Dunwich Horror", see Dunwich Horror (disambiguation)

The Dweller in the Gulf

The Dweller in the Gulf, Eidolon of the Blind, is described as a gigantic, black, eyeless, tortoise with a triangular head and two long and thin tails with leech-like suckers on the tips.

The Elder Sign

The Elder Sign is a symbol that supposedly protects one of the Great Old Ones/Outer Gods, who seem to fear it. It is engraved on most of the sealed doors in R'lyeh. It appears in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, where a farmer and his wife, upon be

The Evil Clergyman

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story.

The Festival

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. It is considered to be one of the first of his Cthulhu Mythos stories.

The Fisherman at Falcon Point

The Fisherman at Falcon Point is a short story first published in the Arkham House volume The Shuttered Room And Other Pieces (1959). One of the "Posthumous Collaborations" by August Derleth. Based on Lovecraft's Commonplace Book entry: “Fi

The Ghost Eater

"The Ghost Eater" is a horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft and C. M. Eddy Jr. published in the March 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It was Lovecraft's third such collaboration with Eddy.

The Green Meadow

"The Green Meadow" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson written in 1918/19 and published in the spring 1927 issue of The Vagrant. As in their other collaboration, The Crawling Chaos, both authors used pseudonyms — the tale

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is an organization that is devoted to the promotion of the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Mythos. The produce a wide range of media based on that material. 

The High Priest Not to be Described

The High Priest Not to be Described is a mysterious figure residing alone in a prehistoric monastery on the Plateau of Leng. An identity is not given but possibilities include a moon-beast, an avatar of Nyarlathotep, or the King in Yellow, Hastur. In The

The Horror at Martin's Beach

"The Horror at Martin's Beach" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene (1883-1972). It was written in June 1922 and first published (as "The Invisible Monster") in November 1923 in Weird Tales (Vol. 2, No. 4, 75–76

The Horror at Red Hook

"The Horror at Red Hook" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on August 1–2, 1925, it was first published in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales.

The Horror in the Museum

"The Horror in the Museum" is a short story ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for Somerville, MA writer Hazel Heald in October 1932. It is one of five stories Lovecraft revised for Heald. The story has been reprinted in several collections, such a

The Horror-Horn

"The Horror-Horn" is a short story by E.F.Benson .

The Hound

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The Hound (short story)

"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon.

The Hound Amulet

"In the coffin lay an amulet of curious and exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the sleeper's neck. It was the oddly conventionalised figure of a crouching winged hound, or sphinx with a semi-canine face, and was exquisitely car

The Jermyn family

"Madness was in all the Jermyns, and people were glad there were not many of them."

The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Robert W. Chambers and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic fiction, but the work also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, scienc

The Loved Dead

The Loved Dead is a story written by C. M. Eddy, Jr. in 1919. A controversial tale of necrophilia, it was published in Weird Tales bumper issue for May/July 1924.

The Lurking Fear

"The Lurking Fear" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew.

The Man Who Went Too Far

"The Man Who Went Too Far" is a short story by E.F.Benson .It deals with a man,who wishes to know all the secrets of nature and is often able to hear beatiful sounds of pipes,which he calls "the pipse of Pan" .He draws ever closer to h

The Marsh Family

The first individual of distinction in this family was Captain Obed Marsh of Innsmouth. Like most of the residents of Innsmouth he was forced to interbred with the Deep Ones, Pth’thya-l’yi. This Deep One ancestry means his descendents will gradually mutat

The Metal Monster

The Metal Monster is an Abraham Merritt fantasy novel.

The Moon-Bog

"The Moon Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921 and first published in the June 1926 issue of Weird Tales.

The Mound

"The Mound" is a horror and sci-fi novella H. P. Lovecraft wrote as a ghostwriter from December 1929 to January 1930 after he was hired by Zealia Bishop to create a story based on the following plot synopsis:

The Music of Erich Zann

"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922.

The Mysterious Ship

The Mysterious Ship is an unfinished work by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, written in 1902. It is considered part of Lovecraft's juvenilia, or earliest works.

The Nameless City

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story.

The Nameless Mist

The Nameless Mist (Nyog' Sothep?) is an Outer God. It is the progenitor of several other cosmic entities, including the Outer God Yog-Sothoth and possibly others.

The Other Gods

"The Other Gods" is a short story written by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft on August 14, 1921. It was first published in the November 1933 issue of The Fantasy Fan.

The Outsider

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long

The Picture in the House

"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July 1919 issue of The National Amateur—which actually was published in the summer of 1921.

The Quest of Iranon

"The Quest of Iranon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on February 28, 1921, and was first published in the July/August 1935 issue of the magazine Galleon. It was later reprinted in Weird Tales in 1939.

The Rats in the Walls

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924.

The Repairer of Reputations

The Repairer of Reputations is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895. The story is an example of Chambers' horror fiction, and is one of the stories in the collection which contains the motif of th

The Revelations of Gla'aki

The Revelations of Gla'aki is a holy text containing the wisdom of the Great Old One Gla'aki.

The Shadow Out of Time

see Shadow of Time (disambiguation)

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931]. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including pl

The Shunned House

"The Shunned House" is a novelette by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. Written on October 16–19, 1924, it was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales.

The Silver Key

"The Silver Key" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It is a continuation of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath&quot

The Slaying of the Monster

The Statement of Randolph Carter

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely repr

The Strange High House in the Mist

"The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales.

The Street

"The Street" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal.

The Temple

"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales #24 in September 1925.

The Terrible Old Man

"The Terrible Old Man" is a very short short story (less than 1200 words) by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first published in The Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It's notable as the first story to mak

The Thing on the Doorstep

"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction. It was written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales.

The Tomb

"The Tomb" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant.

The Transition of Juan Romero

"The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 16, 1919, and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volume Marginalia.

The Tree

"The Tree" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1920 and first published in October 1921.

The Tree on the Hill

"The Tree on the Hill" is a short story written by horror author H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel. It was written in 1934 and published in 1940 in Polaris.

The Unnamable (short story)

"The Unnamable" is a short story by science fiction and horror author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September of 1923 and was first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales.

The Very Old Folk

"The Very Old Folk" is the name given by publishers to a story found in the letter sent to Donald Wandrei by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft on 3 November 1927. It was first published in the small press magazine Scienti-Snaps, in

The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan

The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan was written by Clark Ashton Smith and features the character of the title, one Avoosl Wuthoqquan venturing into Mount Voormithadret where he had the mixed good fortune of meeting many of the local celebrities, most of whom a

The Whisperer in Darkness

"The Whisperer in Darkness" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written February-September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to "The Colour Out of Space" (1927), it is a blend of horror and science fict

The White Ship

"The White Ship" is a short story written by science fiction and horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19) #2, November 1919.

The Xothic Legend Cycle

The Xothic legend cycle is a series of short stories by Lin Carter that are based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, primarily on Lovecraft's stories "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Out of the Aeons".

Thog

Thog (The Demon god of Xathal) is an octopus-like monstrosity of Hyborian Age which haunts the underground city of Xuthal.

Thoth-Amon

Thoth-Amon (also spelled Thoth-amon) is a fictional character in Robert E. Howard's Conan and Cthulhu Mythos stories. He is a Stygian wizard and at one time possessed the Serpent Ring of Set (also called "The Ring of Thoth-Amon").

Through the Gates of the Silver Key

"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" is a short story co-written by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price between October 1932 and April 1933. A sequel to Lovecraft's "The Silver Key", and part of a sequence of stories focusing o

Thule

Thule was a northern kingdom of the pre-Cataclysmic period. Originally the prehuman civilisation of Ultima Thule was inhabited by the pre-human ancestors and the Voormi, before being colonised by survivors from Zobna. Thule was overwhelmed by the same ice

Thuum'ha

The thuum'ha were - or possibly are - natives of the land Mnar, seemingly amphibious humanoids who lived near a giant lake in an ancient stone city named Ib. It was claimed they, and the city, had been there as long as had the lake itself. Their city

Till A' the Seas

"Till A’the Seas" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow, written in January, 1935 and published in Summer 1935 in "The Californian".

Timeline of events in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction

This is a timeline of events as they take place in the fiction of American horror author H. P. Lovecraft.

Titan

Titans are huge humanoid beings. The entity named Darkness is a titan. Titans are known to interbreed with Night-gaunts, humans, and many other species.

Tomb Herd

Trail of Cthulhu

Trail of Cthulhu is an investigative tabletop role-playing game designed by Kenneth Hite using the GUMSHOE System. It was published by Pelgrane Press in March 2008.

Tsathoggua

Tsathoggua, also known as the Sleeper of N'kai, is a fictional supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe. He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle.

Tulzscha

Tulzscha (The Green Flame) is the name given in Malleus Monstrorum (Role-Playing Supplement) Call of Cthulhu roleplay game guide to the entity described in Howard Philips Lovecraft's story "The Festival". Tulzscha appears as a blazing green

Turua

Turua, The Father of Swamps or The Bayou Plant God, is a fungoid entity with tendrils and tentacles that haunts the swamp lands of Florida. Somewhat similar to the Green God.

Ubb

Ubb, the Father of Worms, is the lord of the yuggs.

Ubbo-Sathla

Ubbo-Sathla, also known as the Unbegotten Source and the Demiurge, is one of the ancient beings known collectively as the Outer Gods.

Ulthar

Ulthar is a city in the Dreamlands of Earth. Its people are known for their reverence of cats, and it is forbidden for any citizen of the land to harm or kill a cat.

Ulthar (Elder God)

Ulthar is a deity that was sent to earth to keep watch over the Great Old Ones

Ultimate Gate

The Ultimate Gate is a gateway through space and time. It is guarded by 'Umr At-Tawil, as well as Yog-Sothoth, and can be accessed through the use of the Silver Key. Among other things, it allows one access to all of the possible lives one may live o

Umlengha

Umlengha is the ancient ritualistic language of Zothique used in magical spells and chants.

Uralte Schrecken

Uralte Schrecken is a treatise on ancient religious cults by the mysterious Graf Eric von Könnenberg. Written in German, c.1850. It relates the myth of Yidhra and Ngyr-Khorath, among others, concentrating heavily on the master creature Mlandoth.

Uvhash

Uvhash (The Blood Mad God of The Void) Is a gigantic, vampiric red mass of eyes and tentacles and is the archenemy of Gi-Hoveg. It dwells in the realm of Rhylkos, which is similar to the planet Mars, and whoever summons Uvhash meets a terrible fate. It se

Vampires

Typically, a vampire is sustained by the blood or lifeforce of a human. Their origins as a species are largely unknown. While Lovecraft's work is often focused on the undead, vampires are never featured. Other contributers of the Cthulhu mythos, howe

Vhoorl

A planet in the "Twenty-Third Nebula" and supposed birthplace of Cthulhu.

Vigilant

The Vigilant is a fictional ship created by H. P. Lovecraft, which makes its only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". It is a freighter owned by the Morrison Co. which originated in Valparaíso, Chile. En route to Sydney, th

Villiers de l'Isle Adam

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (November 7, 1838 – August 19, 1889) was a French symbolist writer.

Visions from Yaddith

Visions of Yaddith - a book of dream inspired poems by Ariel Prescott (18??-1927), printed privately in 1927 by Charnel House, of London. Most copies were destroyed by Prescott's relatives. The name Ariel Prescott is believed to be a pseudonym. It wa

Volgna-Gath

Volgna-Gath, The Keeper of the Secrets, The Guardian of the Knowledge, is a slimy shape-shifting mass, which can be summoned with mud and the blood of the invoker.

Voorm

'  Voorm is the eponymous ancestor of the Voormis race.

Voormish Tablets

Voormish Tablets - a set of stone tablets, probably containing the scriptures of the Voormis race. It is mentioned in The Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Book of Eibon, although no copies seem to have survived to today.

Voormithadreth

Mount Voormithadreth is a mountain on the continent of Hyperborea where Tsathoggua resides.

Vorvadoss

Vorvadoss (The Flaming One, Lord of the Universal Spaces, The Troubler of the Sands, Who Waiteth in the Outer Dark) is an Elder God that appears as a cloaked, hooded being, enveloped in green flames, with fiery eyes. He is described as son of the Elder Go

Vthyarilops

Vthyarilops, The Star-fish God. A tentacled horror similar to a Sun Star, but endowed with branching tentacles, spines, myriads of blue glaring eyes, and gaping-maws.

Vulthoom

Vulthoom (Gsarthotegga, The Sleeper of Ravermos) is a Great Old One introduced in The Sleeper of Ravermos. In the story, Vulthoom is the Martian Aihai's equivalent of Satan. Though most rational people believe him to be a myth, he is nonetheless grea

W. H. Pugmire

Wilum 'Hopfrog' Pugmire is a writer of horror fiction.

Walter C. DeBill Jr. Deities

List of Great Old Ones created by the mythos author Walter C. DeBill Jr.

Walter Gilman

A man from from Haverhill, Massachusetts. He came to the Miskatonic University to advance his research in non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics.

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J.C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. Edwin Baird was the first editor of the monthly, assi

What the Moon Brings

"What the Moon Brings" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on June 5, 1922. This story was first published in the National Amateur in May 1923. It is shorter than most of Lovecraft's other short stori

Whipple Van Buren Phillips

Whipple Van Buren Phillips(November 22, 1833 - March 28, 1904) is the maternal grandfather of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Phillips was a successful businessman and owned much of the land in and around the town of Greene, Rhode Island. There he founded Free

Whippoorwills

Whippoorwills were seen at the death of both the wizard Old Whateley and his demi-god grandson Wilbur Whateley. The first's soul they failed to capture and the second's fate is left unknown.

Wilbur Whateley

Wilbur Whateley is a Dunwich inhabitant who plays a central role in The Dunwich Horror.

Wilbur Whateley's journal

Wilbur Whateley's Journal is a diary belonging to Wilbur Whateley, recovered after his death and along with the contents of his library, were transported to Miskatonic University to be studied. It was encrypted with a highly complex formula, possibly

Wilfred Blanch Talman

Wilfred Blanch Talman is an American Horror fiction writer best know for his collaboration with Howard Phillips Lovecraft on the short story, "Two Black Bottles". He was a correspondent with Lovecraft and late member of the Kalem Club. Late in l

William Briden

William Briden is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his only appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a member of the Emma of Auburn, although his role is uncertain. Briden and Second Mate Gustaf

William Channing Webb

William Channing Webb is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1928 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". He is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University and "an explorer of no slight

William Dyer

William Dyer is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novella At the Mountains of Madness.

William Lumley

William Lumley was a late associate of Howard Phillips Lovecraft for whom Lovecraft ghostwrote “The Diary of Alonzo Typer” (1935). Like many of Lovecraft's collaborators, little is known of his life. He is reported to have been from Buffalo, New York

Winged Ones (disambiguation)

Winged Ones is a general name for winged creatures.

Winifred V. Jackson

Winifred V. Jackson was a collaborator with Howard Phillips Lovecraft on the short stories, The Green Meadow and The Crawling Chaos, under the name Elizabeth Berkley. Details about her life are scarce, but there is speculation that she and Lovecraft were

Works Referenced by Lovecraft as possessing Horror elements

The following is a list of stories which Lovecraft desrcibes as horror stories or at least possesing some horror elements,or at least with ties to the horro genre.

X'chll'at-aa

X'chll'at-aa, the Lord of the Great Old Ones, the Unborn God, and the Enemy of all that Live. It appears as a human fetus but grotesque in appearance. Arguably the most powerful Great Old One within the pantheon, nearly equal in power to an Oute

Xa'ligha

Xa'ligha, the "The Demon of Disosonance” and “The Master of Twisted Sound”, appears to be a avatar form of Tru'nembra or of Rla Tfuthla, assuming that they are not the same creature. Xa'ligha dwells in Dissonance, whatever that crytic

Xexanoth

Xexanoth is a outer god known for being the bane of the time god Aforgomon, the latter entity might be a avatar of the All-in-One himself, Yog-Sothoth.

Xirdneth

Xirdneth, The Maker of Illusion, and  The Demon of Deceit, is an illusion-making entity with no true form.

Xoth

Xoth (or Zoth) is the green binary star where Cthulhu and his like once lived before coming to the Earth. According to The Xothic Legend Cycle, it is where Cthulhu mated with Idh-yaa to beget Ghatanothoa, Ythogtha, and Zoth-Ommog. Xoth is also the native

Xothra

Xothra (The Hidden Devourer or The Ravenous) a lesser Great Old One. Was once worshipped in ancient Mongolia (under which it may lie). A “lurker in the desert” and servant of Yidhra.

Y'golonac

Y'golonac, known as The Defiler, is a Great Old One. He is the god of perversion and depravity – not just "average" human perversions or depravities, but any that can be conceived of by a sapient being (sane or otherwise). His demeanor is m

Y'ha-nthlei

Y'ha-nthlei is one of the Undersea cities of the Deep Ones. The hybrid denizens of Innsmouth went there after their transformation was complete. It is the only Deep One city Lovecraft mentioned by name, but he did state there were numerous others.

Y'hath

Y'hath - the vulturine “great winged Y'hath in the sky” is mentioned in rituals to Yidhra as a servant of that god.

Y'lla

Y'lla - the tentacled Sea-Worm shares the sea with his sibling the bi-sexual Vhuzompha . Y'lla, the titanic tentacled Sea-Worm imprisoned in his sunken citadel of K'hraa beneath the waves!

Y'nthoggyans

Y'nathogguans - the Servitors of Quyagen who dwell in Quy. Legend says that they are humanoid reptiles with heads like tigers, save that they have tenticles instead of whiskers. They hunt men down and when these tenticles touch bare flesh they drain

Yad-Thaddag

Yad-Thaddag is possibly the Elder God equivalent of The Outer God Yog-Sothoth. This being has the same appearance as Yog-Sothoth, except its spheres are of a different color and its nature is purely benevolent. It appears in Lumley's 1989 novel Elysi

Yaddith

Yaddith is a planet harboring an intelligent extraterrestrial race.

Yaddithian

The planet Yaddith is home to an intelligent species of clawed, snouted creatures. The wizard Zkauba is a member of this species.

Yaggdytha

Yaggdytha (The Incandescent One) is twin brother of Vorvadoss, and first-born of Nodens, the Lord of the Abyss. Yaggadytha is also associated with Bel-Yarnak. It manifests as a great amorphous, incandescent ball of cyan living energy, spread itself into a

Yagothoggua

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Ycnàgnnisssz

Ycnàgnnisssz is a Hyperborean name for one of the progenitors of the gods (Azathoth being the other) according to the genealogy in The Parchments of Pnom and the related Book of Eibon. All that is known of it is that it is from the dark star Zoth, and it

Yegg-Ha

Yegg-ha (The Master of the Nightgaunts) a faceless bat-winged giant that was “killed” by Roman soldiers near Hadrian's Wall in Britain, c.128 A.D. Its connection as Leader of the Nightgaunts is given in the Necronomicon , although Yibb-Tstll is menti

Yhagni

'  Yhagni is the female or hemaphroditic cousin of Hastur and Cthulhu, who is known for her disgusting appearance and insane power. The other Great Old Ones saw her as a major threat and had her locked deep in the Temple of Pillars in the dephs of Ky

Yhashtur

Yhashtur ( The Worm-God of The Lords of Thule) is a worm-like Great Old One that dwells at Northern Polar latitudes. It is said to be a rival of The Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep.

Yidhra

Yidhra (The Mother of Darkness, The Shrouder and The Dream-Witch) is an Outer God who is worshipped as a beautiful, awesome and terrible earth-mother, similar to Shub-Niggurath  and might be connected to The Darkness. She has many avatar forms including Y

Yig

Yig, the Father of Serpents, is one of the Great Old Ones who first appears in "The Curse of Yig". He acts as a god who sends his minions/children out to punish all who has murdered a snake in the past by either killing them or turning into a sn

Yog-Sapha

Yog-Sapha (The Dweller in the Depths, and The Lord of the Things Which Dwell Beneath the Surface) a creature of darkness and depths. It cannot harm people in light. It comes from crimson Haddath, and is cousin of Shudde-M'ell. Possibly this is anothe

Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity and Outer God of the Cthulhu Mythos and the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft

Yogash the Ghoul

Yogash the Ghoul is a mysterious entity that is in the line of Azathoth, descending through Cthulhu, and producing the line which would produce H.P. Lovecraft. It's not clear if this degree of separation from Cthulhu and Azathoth renders Yogash the G

Yomagn'tho

Yomagn'tho (That Which Restlessly waits Outside) is an Outer God. It appears as a flaming circle with three inner-petals, and a dark interior, in which chaotic shapes are discernable. It comes from a world circling the star Pherkard. It is said to be

Ythogtha

Ythogtha is the second son of Cthulhu and resembles a gigantic, humanoid frog, or Deep One, with only a single, huge eye in the center of his forehead like a cyclops. A dense mane and a beard of writhing tentacles grows from his head. Ythogtha is incredib

Yuggoth

Yuggoth is a planet located at the very edge of the Earth's Solar System in either the Kuiper Belt, Scattered  Disk or even as far away as the Oort Cloud. It is the site of a Mi-Go colony, a race of fungoid, crustacean-like extraterrestrials.

Z'toggua

Z'toggua is a Great Old One worshipped by the Deep Ones. He is described as obese humanoid bat with a gapping mouth on his belly.

Zadok Allen

Zadok Allen was one of the few remaining humans in Innsmouth. After relating to traveller Robert Olmstead the history of Innsmouth he was captured and sacrificed to the Deep Ones by the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

Zanthu

Zanthu the Hierophant was a Muvian sorcerer and a worshiper of Ythogtha. He is the author of the Zanthu Tablets which were later translated by Harold Hadley Copeland.

Zanthu Tablets

Cthulhu Mythos Grimoire written by Zanthu the hierophant. The Zanthu Tablets were discovered by the Copeland-Ellington expedition and translated by Copeland into English from the original language of Muvian naacal.

Zathog

Zathog (Dark Lord of the Whirling Vortices) a Great Old One who settled ain the heart of the planet Zarr in the Xentilx galaxy after fleeing from the war with the Elder Gods and their “overweening” sphere of infulence. He is one of the few gods still awak

Zealia Bishop

Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop (1897–1968) was an American writer of short stories.

Zhar and Lloigor

Lloigor, “The Star-Treader”. The twin of Zhar, said to be imprisoned alive in caverns under the Isle of Stars on the Plateau of Sung. The twins are connected with the star Antares, from where they probably originated (although Rigel and Betelgeuse are als

Zkauba

Zkauba is an alien mystic native to the planet Yaddith.

Zoog

The zoogs are a race of sentient forest-dwelling creatures that inhabit the Dreamlands of Earth. They are mortal enemies of cats, as they prey upon kittens and are preyed upon in return by adult cats.

Zoth-Ommog

Zoth-Ommog is a Great Old One and the third son of Cthulhu, featured in the Xothic Legend Cycle by Lin Carter.

Zstylzhemghi

Zstylzhemghi (Matriarch of the Swarm) is the offspring of Ycnágnnisssz, the wife of Ghisguth, and the mother of Tsathoggua.