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    The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of Anglo-American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term...
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  • concepts, such as August Derleth, who was credited with formalizing the Cthulhu Mythos. Most of these deities were Lovecraft's original creations, but he also...
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    H. P. Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The main literary purpose of these works is to explain how characters...
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    is the namesake of the Lovecraft-inspired Cthulhu Mythos. Invented by Lovecraft in 1928, the name Cthulhu was probably chosen to echo the word chthonic...
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  • Carter later wrote that Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos "marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the Mythos for many reasons, and one of the most...
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  • influenced by elements of the shared fictional universe known as the Cthulhu Mythos, which originated in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft...
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  • This is a list of fictional creatures from the Cthulhu mythos of American writer H. P. Lovecraft and his collaborators. The byakhees or byakhee birds first...
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    development & describe nature of bas-relief" to himself for future reference. Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M. Price claims the irregular sonnet "The Kraken", published...
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    Cthulhu Mythos. Subsequent horror writers also heavily drew on Lovecraft's work. While many made direct references to elements of Lovecraft's mythos,...
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  • 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...
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  • following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos. Overview: Name. The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death...
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  • 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". The cycle...
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    H. P. Lovecraft (category Cthulhu Mythos writers)
    fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life...
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    Heald's short story "Out of the Aeons" (1935). Mu appears in numerous Cthulhu mythos stories, including many written by Lin Carter in his Xothic legend cycle...
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    Azathoth (category Cthulhu Mythos deities)
    deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of writer H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. He is the supreme deity of the Cthulhu Mythos and the ruler...
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  • It is based on Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and other Cthulhu Mythos fiction. It was launched in 2004...
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    The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The beings first appeared in Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)...
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    Yellow Sign—in "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1931), one of his main Cthulhu Mythos stories. Lovecraft borrowed Chambers' method of only vaguely referring...
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  • forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names...
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    Nyarlathotep (category Cthulhu Mythos deities)
    created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep"...
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    Arkham (category Cthulhu Mythos locations)
    Lovecraft, Arkham is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers. Arkham House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's...
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  • Lovecraftian elements, the cycle itself may be regarded as a branch of the Cthulhu Mythos. In a letter to August Derleth dated 26 July 1944, Smith wrote: "In...
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  • Cthulhu 500 is a motor racing-themed card game designed by Jeff Tidball based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The game was released by Atlas Games...
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    Hastur (category Cthulhu Mythos deities)
    Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, Fenric, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd"...
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    Dagon (short story) (category Cthulhu Mythos short stories)
    Fish-God." Dagon is the first of Lovecraft's stories to introduce a Cthulhu Mythos element—the sea deity Dagon itself. Worship of Dagon later appeared...
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    transitional tale, situated between the author's earlier work and the later Cthulhu Mythos. Although the story depicts a sinister cult, this cult offers a conventionally...
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  • The Black Stone (category Cthulhu Mythos short stories)
    Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Friedrich von Junzt. The story is part of the Cthulhu Mythos, and follows the same pattern and has the same features as much of H...
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    appears, too, in the works of Arthur Machen, as well as H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The theonym *Nodens or *Nodons is reconstructed from the attested dative...
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  • Henry Kuttner (category Cthulhu Mythos writers)
    of Cthulhu 5, No 7 (whole number 41) (Lammas 1986), edited by Robert M. Price, was a special Henry Kuttner issue collecting eight Cthulhu Mythos stories...
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    expedition was modelled after that of Byrd. In Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos Lin Carter suggests that one inspiration for At the Mountains of Madness...
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